• DJ Haram: Interview & Guest Mix ft. Armand Hammer & Dania

    DJ Haram: Interview & Guest Mix ft. Armand Hammer & Dania

    There is no way to succinctly describe the work DJ Haram has done across a vast scope of music in the last decade. After moving to Philadelphia in 2012, she began DJing with the Discwoman collective and made a name with a handful of buzzy mixes that melded East Coast…

  • Dean Wareham: Interview

    Dean Wareham: Interview

    Across decades and over many monikers, Dean Wareham has captured countless, rich, hazy worlds through song. Whether through Galaxie 500, Luna, or his own eponymous project,he’s often associated with the washed out, reverb-laden sound of his early work. Beneath his reputation as a dream-pop/rock pioneer, Wareham cloaks a portfolio of…

  • Case Oats: interview

    Case Oats: interview

    Casey Gomez Walker is singing about her old home. Not necessarily the brick-and-mortar, physical Missouri house where  she grew up and pasted lyrics to the wall, but the type of home that has attached to her interior, wrinkling memory, stories, and feelings throughout time. The home that will exist in…

  • clipping.: Interview

    clipping.: Interview

    Their lyrics curdled your blood, their noise loops impaled your eardrums, and now they’re here to make you groove. Back in 2010, three independently ambitious guys just wanted to make some noise and share their excitement for music with those around them. Fast-forward to 2025, the eclectic experimental hip-hop trio…

  • Mamie Minch: Interview

    Mamie Minch: Interview

    Mamie Minch confronts questions of legacy with abandon. As a folk singer-songwriter, Minch re-wraps lyrical and thematic legacy with a graceful repose. As co-owner of Brooklyn Lutherie, a stringed instrument repair shop, Minch retells the buried histories of broken instruments. Despite these seemingly bifurcated identities, Minch’s work has always existed…

  • Ghandrx: Interview

    Ghandrx: Interview

    I first heard Ghandrx on a warm July night last summer while I was sitting on my fire escape. It was musky outside, the overgrown plants and ivy sagged on the neighboring apartment buildings, and the sky was transitioning from dark blue to black. My friend and I’d just finished…

  • Horsegirl: Interview

    Horsegirl: Interview

    Bundled up together in the confines of their Brooklyn practice space, Penelope Lowenstein, Nora Cheng, and Gigi Reece greeted me after their last rehearsal before hitting the road. The Chicago-turned-New York rock ‘n roll trio, known best as Horsegirl, were preparing for the first shows of their spring tour, performing…

  • An Interview with Black Country, New Road’s Lewis Evans

    An Interview with Black Country, New Road’s Lewis Evans

    The last time Black Country, New Road played the 575-capacity Bowery Ballroom in September of 2022, the entire setlist consisted of newly written unreleased material (bar a cover of Billie Eilish’s “Happier Than Ever,”). Seven months prior, the outfit had announced the departure of their frontman Isaac Wood, who held…

  • Of Montreal: Interview

    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,…

  • “We Had to Search for a Truer Self”: Jia Zhangke on the 22-year-long Journey towards Caught by the Tides

    “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…

  • Ty Segall: Interview

    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…

  • Walking Around With Free Range: Featured Interview

    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…