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Anika Talks Oneohtrix Point Never’s R Plus Seven

By Anika | October 3, 2013

Anika Talks Oneohtrix Point Never’s R Plus Seven

Oneohtrix Point Never's previous album, 2011's Replica, was received with much critical acclaim, and this is the first from OPN...

Melissa Auf der Maur (Hole, Smashing Pumpkins) Talks Polvo’s Siberia

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By Melissa Auf der Maur | October 2, 2013

Melissa Auf der Maur (Hole, Smashing Pumpkins) Talks Polvo’s Siberia

I am listening to Siberia on a loud, bass-heavy boombox, and out of the corner of my eye I am watching for whales out of my family friend’s...

Kathy Valentine (the Go-Go’s, the BlueBonnets) Talks Haim’s Days Are Gone

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By Kathy Valentine | October 1, 2013

Kathy Valentine (the Go-Go’s, the BlueBonnets) Talks Haim’s Days Are Gone

Full disclosure: I am partial to the female musician. I don’t qualify for “GBG” status — those individuals known to us in lady bands as the...

Steve Nieve (Elvis Costello and the Attractions) Talks Elton John’s The Diving Board

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By Steve Nieve | September 30, 2013

Steve Nieve (Elvis Costello and the Attractions) Talks Elton John’s The Diving Board

One of my earliest memories of diving into the deep end was the first evening I went to a "youth club." In a dusty church hall, under colored mood...

Mikael Jorgensen (Wilco, Pronto) Talks Man Man’s On Oni Pond

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By Mikael Jorgensen | September 27, 2013

Mikael Jorgensen (Wilco, Pronto) Talks Man Man’s On Oni Pond

Party jams. Seems like a cop out on my part to write it. But this is a record about good times gone hairy + maybe a bit scary. The feeling of...

Reggie Watts Talks Exhumed’s Necrocracy

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By Reggie Watts | September 25, 2013

Reggie Watts Talks Exhumed’s Necrocracy

I talk about death in my comedy because it is something real, but also something that we don't necessarily like to talk about. That's why death...

Nico Muhly Talks 2 Chainz’s B.O.A.T.S. II #METIME

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By Nico Muhly | September 24, 2013

Nico Muhly Talks 2 Chainz’s B.O.A.T.S. II #METIME

There is something enormously satisfying about 2 Chainz, and his most recent offering, B.O.A.T.S. II #METIME is concomitantly released with...

Zac Pennington (Parenthetical Girls) Talks the Weeknd’s Kiss Land

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By Zac Pennington | September 23, 2013

Zac Pennington (Parenthetical Girls) Talks the Weeknd’s Kiss Land

“This ain’t nothin' to relate to.” Pop music has enough victims. I don’t mean to say that pop music itself is some kind of toxic malignancy — this...

Khaela Maricich (the Blow) Talks MGMT’s MGMT

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By Khaela Maricich | September 20, 2013

Khaela Maricich (the Blow) Talks MGMT’s MGMT

What is music for? This question maybe seems too massive to be worth considering, but listening to the new MGMT album, my bandmate Melissa Dyne and...

Brendan Canty (Fugazi, Deathfix) Talks Múm’s Smilewound

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By Brendan Canty | September 18, 2013

Brendan Canty (Fugazi, Deathfix) Talks Múm’s Smilewound

The Icelandic group Múm has made a bunch of records that I can really sink my teeth into. The records have a distant, lo-fi, found-sound quality...