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Laura Jane Grace (Against Me!) Talks Savages’ Silence Yourself

By Laura Jane Grace | May 10, 2013

Laura Jane Grace (Against Me!) Talks Savages’ Silence Yourself

Silence Yourself, the debut album from the London band Savages, starts off with a vocal sample from the 1977 John Cassavetes film...

Angel Del Villar II (Homeboy Sandman) Talks Obey the Altar Native’s Musical Advancement: The Museum

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By Angel Del Villar II | May 9, 2013

Angel Del Villar II (Homeboy Sandman) Talks Obey the Altar Native’s Musical Advancement: The Museum

Obey the Altar Native, which is a three-man crew out of Arizona consisting of emcees named Obey, Denone, and Ro Ruckus, just put out...

Matt Fraction Talks About the Uneasy Listening of the Flaming Lips’ The Terror

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By Matt Fraction | May 4, 2013

Matt Fraction Talks About the Uneasy Listening of the Flaming Lips’ The Terror

The nervous breakdown that’s bubbled just under the surface of the Flaming Lips’ output since 1999’s The Soft Bulletin has arrived, fully...

Janet Weiss (Wild Flag, Quasi, Sleater-Kinney) Talks Os Mutantes’ Fool Metal Jack

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By Janet Weiss | April 30, 2013

Janet Weiss (Wild Flag, Quasi, Sleater-Kinney) Talks Os Mutantes’ Fool Metal Jack

Can you remember the first time you heard the Beatles? That day should be listed high among life’s momentous occasions — up there with the first...

Buzz Osborne (the Melvins) Talks the Stooges’ Ready to Die

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By Buzz Osborne | April 29, 2013

Buzz Osborne (the Melvins) Talks the Stooges’ Ready to Die

Once, the Melvins were playing a festival, and the powers that be wanted us to perform right after Iggy and the Stooges. I told them I would rather...

Bob Mould (Hüsker Dü, Sugar) Talks Phoenix’s Bankrupt!

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By Bob Mould | April 26, 2013

Bob Mould (Hüsker Dü, Sugar) Talks Phoenix’s Bankrupt!

I first heard Phoenix on the 2002 compilation My House in Montmartre, a document of the French house music movement.

Stew (Passing Strange, the Negro Problem) Talks Ghostface Killah’s 12 Reasons to Die

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By Stew | April 25, 2013

Stew (Passing Strange, the Negro Problem) Talks Ghostface Killah’s 12 Reasons to Die

The new release by Ghostface Killah and producer/film score composer/record store owner/entertainment law professor Adrian Younge...

Peter Holsapple (the dB’s, Holsapple & Stamey, Continental Drifters) Talks Willie Nelson’s Let’s Face the Music and Dance

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By Peter Holsapple | April 24, 2013

Peter Holsapple (the dB’s, Holsapple & Stamey, Continental Drifters) Talks Willie Nelson’s Let’s Face the Music and Dance

Willie Nelson is one of the scant few older country artists with an appreciable heritage who remains commercially viable in 2013, despite little...

Michael Lerner (Telekinesis) talks OMD’s English Electric

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By Michael Benjamin Lerner | April 23, 2013

Michael Lerner (Telekinesis) talks OMD’s English Electric

My introduction to OMD was backwards. Before classic singles like "Enola Gay" or "Electricity," I heard their fairly obscure 1983 album...

Amy Klein (Leda, Hilly Eye, Titus Andronicus) Talks Kurt Vile’s Wakin on a Pretty Daze

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By Amy Klein | April 22, 2013

Amy Klein (Leda, Hilly Eye, Titus Andronicus) Talks Kurt Vile’s Wakin on a Pretty Daze

There’s a moment about 20 seconds into Wakin on a Pretty Daze when you figure this new album’s going to be pretty different from Kurt Vile’s...