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Interviews: Foals
Photo by NabilNot so long ago, it wouldn't have made much sense at all for Metallica to choose Foals to play their music festival. But with Holy Fire, the Oxford band's muscular recent Flood and Alan...
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Hall of Game: Gray Matters
Influence can be a funny form of power, particularly in the creative world. It moves ideas and aesthetics but sometimes leaves the works that birthed them behind. Consider the late DJ Screw, who died...
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Interviews: Devendra Banhart
Photos by Ana Kraš Devendra Banhart: "Mi Negrita" on SoundCloud. When Devendra Banhart used to read interviews with his favorite bands as a teenager, he'd scan the articles looking for one question:...
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Rising: Kate Boy
Kate Boy: "Northern Lights" on SoundCloud. Even after hearing Kate Boy's neon-streaked 2012 singles "Northern Lights" and "In Your Eyes"-- all white-heat hooks and warping plastic production-- and...
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Update: Jose Gonzalez / Junip
Photo by Karla Andreasson Junip: "Line of Fire" on SoundCloud. Jose Gonzalez is the type of musician you might expect to wax poetic about the limitations of technology and the dangers of ubiquity. A...
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Guest Lists: The Men
Photo by Kevin Faulkner The Men: "Electric" on SoundCloud. Guest List features our favorite artists filling us in on some of their favorite things as well as other random bits. For this edition, we...
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The Out Door: Imagined Communities
In this edition of The Out Door, we talk with father and son Yoshi and Tashi Wada about the politics of reissues and the divide between composition and improvisation, dive into the "the abyss of 78rpm...
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Interviews: Phosphorescent
Photos by Dusdin CondrenIt's a rainy afternoon in December, and I'm supposed to meet Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck at a rundown Greenpoint watering hole called Palace Cafe. One problem, though: It's...
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Update: Katy B
Katy B and Jacques Greene: "Danger" on SoundCloud. If there’s a single dominant archetype in media and art right now, it’s the flailing, recession-era millennial. We live in a culture infatuated, to...
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5-10-15-20: Nas
Photo by Matt Salacuse5-10-15-20 features artists talking about the music that made an impact on them throughout their lives, five years at a time. Listen along to Nas' picks on Spotify.Nas began his...
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Guest Lists: Jessica Pratt
Photo by Colby Droscher Jessica Pratt: "Night Faces" Guest List features some of our favorite artists filling us in on some of their favorite things, along with other random bits. For this edition, we...
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Show No Mercy: Kylesa
Kylesa's sixth album, Ultraviolet, is out May 28 on Season of Mist. It's the Savannah, Ga., heavy rock band's darkest, most atmospheric record to date. The collection, which features an array of subtle...
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Afterword: Jason Molina
“It is slow going, but it is going.”Jason Molina wrote those words last year in a brief, warm letter to fans, in which he described his treatment for alcohol abuse and recounted his various travels...
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Interviews: Wavves
Photo by Cat RoifFalse rumors of a lawsuit from Disney. A personalized line of weed grinders (and an international drug arrest). A comic book, a video game, and a "guest composer" gig on an MTV show. A...
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Interviews: Harmony Korine
If you want a high-resolution snapshot of American youth culture today, go to a Skrillex show. His live performance is a traveling vortex where bleeding bass, glow sticks, and throbbing moshpit-like...
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Interviews: Mike Patton/Derek Cianfrance
When I get Mike Patton and filmmaker Derek Cianfrance together on a conference call a few weeks ago, it feels like I’m eavesdropping on a conversation between brothers. They finish each other’s...
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Ordinary Machines: Innocent Civilians
As of this writing, a fan-made video for the Radiohead song "Innocent Civilian" has been viewed on YouTube 27,639 times. The song's words appear on at least two dozen lyrics sites, and if you want to...
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Interviews: The Knife
Photo by Alexa Vachon The Knife: "A Tooth for an Eye" on SoundCloud. Smack dab in the middle of the new Knife album comes a track called "Old Dreams Waiting to Be Realized". It consists of precisely 19...
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Rising: Pharmakon
Photo by Jane Chardiet Pharmakon: "Crawling on Bruised Knees" on SoundCloud. Pharmakon is the noise project of 22-year-old New York native Margaret Chardiet. I first became aware of her a couple of...
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Op-Ed: Alternate Ending
Illustration by Michael RenaudBoston’s weekly paper, The Phoenix, closed down this month, prompting a lot of soul searching and nostalgia here in town and at large about print media, the community it...
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