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Hunter Hunt-Hendrix (Liturgy, Survival) Talks Death Grips’ No Love Deep Web

By Hunter Hunt-Hendrix | April 8, 2013

Hunter Hunt-Hendrix (Liturgy, Survival) Talks Death Grips’ No Love Deep Web

Death Grips have the ambiguous honor of being the most "now" band around right now. The originality of the music itself lies in their unique..

Zac Pennington (Parenthetical Girls) Talks Taylor Swift’s Red

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By Zac Pennington | April 2, 2013

Zac Pennington (Parenthetical Girls) Talks Taylor Swift’s Red

The first heated argument I had on the topic of Taylor Swift began in the latter months of 2009. These were heated times — post-Kanye, after...

Amy Klein (Leda, Hilly Eye, Titus Andronicus) Talks Spring Breakers

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By Amy Klein | March 30, 2013

Amy Klein (Leda, Hilly Eye, Titus Andronicus) Talks Spring Breakers

Spring Breakers is the best music video I’ve ever seen. It’s nearly two hours long and has 20 songs in it. You want Skrillex? You’ve got him.

Randy Blythe (Lamb of God) Talks Crime and the City Solution’s American Twilight

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By Randy Blythe | March 29, 2013

Randy Blythe (Lamb of God) Talks Crime and the City Solution’s American Twilight

Before the days of Pro Tools and iPods and half-decent stock stereos in every car sold, musicians used to give new mixes of their tunes what we...

Andrew Savage (Parquet Courts) Talks Eat Skull’s Eat Skull III

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By Andrew Savage | March 28, 2013

Andrew Savage (Parquet Courts) Talks Eat Skull’s Eat Skull III

It's been a while since we've heard from Portland, Oregon's Eat Skull, a band that I could always rely on to be refreshing and uncompromising....

Sean Yeaton (Parquet Courts) Talks They Might Be Giants’ Nanobots

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By Sean Yeaton | March 27, 2013

Sean Yeaton (Parquet Courts) Talks They Might Be Giants’ Nanobots

Once, in Mexico, I rode a horse named Tequila down a slick and treacherous canyon, led by non-English-speaking Mexican cowboys...

Dave Douglas Talks Wayne Shorter’s Without a Net

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By Dave Douglas | March 26, 2013

Dave Douglas Talks Wayne Shorter’s Without a Net

I was listening to Wayne Shorter's new album on the Taconic State Parkway when I heard a woman's voice yell, "Oh my God!" It was intense...

Rosanne Cash Talks Jim Jarmusch & Josef Van Wissem’s The Mystery

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By Rosanne Cash | March 25, 2013

Rosanne Cash Talks Jim Jarmusch & Josef Van Wissem’s The Mystery

The opening track on The Mystery of Heaven, a collaboration between filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and avant-garde composer Jozef Van Wissem...

Jherek Bischoff Talks Beck’s Song Reader

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By Jherek Bischoff | March 23, 2013

Jherek Bischoff Talks Beck’s Song Reader

Recently I had the privilege of taking part in an evening of orchestral music presented at the Good Shepherd Center, a beautiful former chapel...

Geoff Rickly (Thursday, UN, Ink & Dagger) Talks Cult of Youth’s Love Will Prevail

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By Geoff Rickly | March 22, 2013

Geoff Rickly (Thursday, UN, Ink & Dagger) Talks Cult of Youth’s Love Will Prevail

Over the course of the last 15 years of playing, listening to and talking about music, I've come to realize that there really is no such thing as a...