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Articles: Sleater-Kinney: A Certain Rebellion
by Jessica HopperJanuary 12, 2015 Photo by: Ebru Yildiz; makeup by Jenn Streicher; hair by Noah Hatton There was supposed to be someone else, some other band that blazed through the path Sleater-Kinney...
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Guest Lists: Viet Cong
Viet Cong, from left: Matt Flegel, Danny Christiansen, Michael Wallace, and Scott "Monty" Munro. Photo by David Waldman. Viet Cong: "Silhouettes" on SoundCloud. Guest List features artists filling us...
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Update: A$AP Ferg
Photo by Justin Hogan A$AP Ferg came to work, but work is proving to be a problem. An unknown mechanical error has damaged the power at his label’s office in the Bronx, shrouding half the rooms in...
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Rising: Petite Noir
Photo by Kent AndreasenAt 24, Yannick Ilunga has already lived several musical lives, leaping over perceived racial and genre confines along the way. Growing up in Cape Town, South Africa, he started...
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5-10-15-20: Belle and Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch
Photo by Tom Spray5-10-15-20 features people talking about the music that made an impact on them throughout their lives, five years at a time. For this edition, we spoke with 46-year-old Belle and...
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Update: Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt: Brian Chippendale and Brian Gibson. Photos by Natalja Kent.The story is familiar: A band used to cheap, DIY recording makes the leap to a professional studio to add new dimensions to...
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Interviews: The Invisible Woman: A Conversation With Björk
by Jessica HopperJanuary 21, 2015 Photo by: Andrew Thomas Huang courtesy of One Little Indian With each album she makes, Björk immerses us in a fantastical universe of her own design. Now, on...
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Secondhands: Bleats, Whines, and Other Awful Human Sounds to Which Our Hearts...
I.Anecdotally speaking, I can think of few singers whose voices are hated with the comfort and clarity with which people hate the voice of John Darnielle. Several of my friends have barred it from car...
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Update: Jessica Pratt
Photos by Colby DroscherJessica Pratt's self-titled 2012 debut was a quiet hit—a collection of warm and enigmatic acoustic folk tunes that found a cult following—but the 27-year-old songwriter winces...
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Update: John Carpenter
John Carpenter's scores are just as iconic and influential as his films. In Halloween, The Fog, Assault on Precinct 13, and They Live, his ominous synthesizers portented the monster hiding in the...
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Rising: Lotic
Photos by Elias Johansson "Keep it cute, not crazy."That's J'Kerian Morgan's motto for the club night he plays at Berlin's Ficken 3000. His choice of words is kind of funny, because Ficken 3000 is a...
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Update: Will Butler
When Will Butler thought about making his own album, he had a few variables to consider. Chiefly: the routine timetable for his other music gig. “Arcade Fire albums come out every three years,” he...
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Update: Action Bronson
Photo by Tom Gould"I’m up at 6, but I try to hold out until at least 8:45, 9 o’clock," says Action Bronson, discussing his routine for getting high while scraping marijuana wax out of a tinfoil pouch,...
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Electric Fling: Electronic Warfare: The Political Legacy of Detroit Techno
A1 “The Grey Area”Detroit techno originator Robert Hood made his name on whetting tracks down to their spiritual essence. His music lovingly marks paths back to funk, disco, and gospel—speeding up...
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Update: Lower Dens
Photo by Frank HamiltonLate last year, Jana Hunter tweeted, "culturally, our inability to speak and confront honest emotions, no matter how intense, is one of our most problematic issues." Amid the...
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Articles: Father John Misty: How to Make Love
by David BevanFebruary 5, 2015 Photo by: Emma Tillman “Would you mind bringing me my dancing shoes?” Josh Tillman asks his wife and collaborator, Emma, as she walks into the green room. Tall, with...
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5-10-15-20: Rivers Cuomo
Photo by Emily Shur5-10-15-20 features people talking about the music that made an impact on them throughout their lives, five years at a time. For this edition, we spoke with 44-year-old Rivers Cuomo...
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Update: Purity Ring
Photo by Renata Raksha When Purity Ring’s first singles started circulating four years ago, the duo categorized themselves “future pop”—a canny appraisal that was both boastful and evasive, shifting...
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Interviews: Jeff Bridges
Of all the spectacles associated with this year's Super Bowl—zombie children selling insurance!adorable interspecies friendships!Left Shark!—perhaps the unlikeliest involved Jeff Bridges, hirsute as...
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Secondhands: Seeing Purple: Prince in the ‘80s
Like a lot of young boys, I was fascinated by Bugs Bunny. He was sly and confident and knew how to get what he wanted. Next to Bugs, everyone else seemed corny, too wrapped up in ego to see the...
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