Gig Economy is a Talkhouse series in which artists tell us about their work histories, from part-time pasts to the present tense, in order to demystify the many different paths that can lead to a career as a working musician. Here, Morgan Enos (Other Houses) talks how his career in music led him down a […]
A year ago, Robert Pollard, the singer for the rock band Guided by Voices, placed his fingers to my lips. My girlfriend at the time had designed a poster for their show at the Fonda Theatre, so we headed to Los Angeles two nights after catching the band’s euphoric set at the Rio in Santa […]
“Who said we’re staying sane? That’s an assumption.”Laura Jane Grace and Paris Campbell Grace burst out laughing on the back porch of their Chicago abode, enveloped in roiling plumes of spliff smoke. It’s a moment of calm — however botanically induced — before chaos descends and they hit the road for a long stretch of […]
Despite critical enthusiasm, John Lennon’s “New York City” is decidedly not one of his most iconic tunes. It’s conspicuously absent from best-of collections like Shaved Fish, Power to the People, and Gimme Some Truth: The Ultimate Mixes; on the blue John Lennon Anthology box I’ve had since childhood, it only appears in a 55-second snippet.Yet […]
I was no stranger to being trapped at home prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: I’m a parent. Getting out has often been a struggle. As vaccines have become widely available, infections less deadly, and the landscape more open, the social relevance of livestreaming appears to be fading. But mine meant the world […]
Paul Shaffer believes that rock was born — and died — with Chuck Berry. “To me, this man invented something that we call rock & roll,” he says at a Q&A with journalist Alan Light after a screening of PBS special Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man, out last Saturday (February 29). “When he passed […]
Late last year, Talkhouse Film contributors and a select few friends of the site voted on their favorite theatrical releases of 2019; you can see the aggregated results here. Below are ballots from a selection of the filmmakers who took part in the voting process.Rodney Ascher 1. Parasite 2. Too Old to Die Young 3. […]
My family unraveled and snapped back together in an unrecognizable form last year, leaving me with too many thoughts and too much energy. When things felt out of control, I’d blast some heavy metal or Hardcore History and take off running from Queens to Brooklyn. It wasn’t really the best place for a jog, but […]
Welcome to the 2016 Talkies, Talkhouse Music’s year-end writers poll. We reached out to our amazing stable of contributors — all of them are, of course, musicians — and asked them to rank their ten favorite records of 2016. The results of the poll are here — and, should you need any musician-approved music suggestions going into 2017, each […]
