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Of Montreal: Interview
In the early 1990s, Athens, Georgia catalyzed into a sonic safe haven, explosive pocket-sized community, sparkling artistic magical forest, and a new hub for the legendary music collective Elephant 6. Some of the most notable acts to crawl out of this scene include The Apples in Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel,…
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“We Had to Search for a Truer Self”: Jia Zhangke on the 22-year-long Journey towards Caught by the Tides
Jia Zhangke operates with the kind of precise and spontaneous patience of a fly on the wall of an archeological dig. Zhangke, born amid the reforms of the 1970s, came to prominence as a part of the “Sixth Generation” of directors in China’s post-socialist period; his films, often made without…
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Ty Segall: Interview
For psych-revival trailblazer Ty Segall, sometimes all a song needs to be about is how much he loves his dogs. “Go adopt a dog!” Segall says before the “dog portion of the night” in which he performed a collection of songs about his two pets to his Brooklyn audience. This…
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Walking Around With Free Range: Featured Interview
Sofia Jensen and I are rolling up our shirtsleeves to compare tattoos. We are standing outside of Greenpoint’s Warsaw on the first sweaty New York day in months, and Jensen, who fronts the band Free Range, is deciding whether we should grab a slice of pizza or frolic in the…
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Lily Seabird: Interview
Although it’s been long since the death of East Coast bohemia, glimmers of it still shine in the locus of Trash Mountain, a house that is painted pink sitting atop a decommissioned landfill site in Burlington, Vermont and has become a hub for artists, of any sense of the word,…
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Diamond Day: Featured Interview
In the late 2000s and early 2010s, Canada was alit with folk music. Spread throughout the provinces, these acts were oftentimes musical families that recruited the entire household for the job. Beatrix Méthé and Quinn Banchard grew up in family bands in parallel, sharing something crucial in common before they…
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Anika: Interview
Annika Henderson is not one to ever conform to the status quo. It would be reductive to solely describe Henderson as a musician – since cutting her teeth in the underground electronic music, she has since expanded her mononymous Anika project to encompass various mediums such as songwriting, djing, journalism,…
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Jaco Jaco: Interview
Jacob Theriot, known professionally as Jaco Jaco, entered into his solo career with esoterica and funk. After his work as the bassist in the wizard-y pop band Sports, Theriot’s new individuality in his music has an atmosphere of fun tinged with thought-provoking motifs about relationships, growth, and the self. Theriot…
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Peach Pit (Neil Smith): Interview
On a sunny Parisian afternoon, I sat with Peach Pit’s lead singer Neil Smith. The Vancouver based band has been together for over ten years and it’s their fifth time performing in Paris. Neil accepted a croissant from my favorite boulangerie and nibbled at it through the conversation. It was…
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Liam Inscoe-Jones “Songs In The Key of MP3”: Interview
The proposition of Simon Reynolds’ 2010 book Retromania is quite simple: if you were to show a person from 1985 a track from 1995 (say, show a Detroit techno fan a ghettotech or drum ‘n’ bass track), they would react like the gates of heaven had just been opened. But,…
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Flore Laurentienne: Interview
When looking at the beautiful but chaotic works of Québécois painter Jean-Paul Riopelle, lush strings and vintage synthesizers would not be a typical sonic interpretation; but for Mathieu David Gagnon, Riopelle’s paintings inspire a calm harmony evident on his newest record, 8 Tableaux. A musician often inspired by nature, Gagnon…
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Cheekface: Interview
Graphic by Joseph Kang Since forming in 2017 Cheekface knows too well what it’s like to write music throughout disturbing and unjust times. Whether it’s through changing the tour van’s tires four times in only one tour, or reckoning with the monetized self-help culture after loss, Cheekface’s deadpan humor seeks…
