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Role Models: For Crystal Waters, It All Goes Back to Ella Fitzgerald

Music
By Crystal Waters | March 5, 2025
By Crystal Waters | March 5, 2025

Role Models: For Crystal Waters, It All Goes Back to Ella Fitzgerald

The house legend talks the jazz singer’s influence on her work, from “Gypsy Woman (She’s Homeless)” to now.

Role Models: Vashti Bunyan on a Few of Her Biggest Influences

Music
By Vashti Bunyan | February 6, 2025
By Vashti Bunyan | February 6, 2025

Role Models: Vashti Bunyan on a Few of Her Biggest Influences

The legendary singer-songwriter talks Ernest Lough, Bob Dylan, and Brandy and Monica's "The Boy Is Mine."

Cat Matthews Had to Kill Cat Matthews

Music
By Cat Matthews | January 17, 2025
By Cat Matthews | January 17, 2025

Cat Matthews Had to Kill Cat Matthews

In 2020, a five-centimeter tear along her trachea temporarily left her completely mute. The singer-songwriter talks finding her voice again.

Play the Techno Song!

Music
By Joel Gion | January 15, 2025
By Joel Gion | January 15, 2025

Play the Techno Song!

To celebrate DiG! XX (Oscilloscope), Joel Gion (Brian Jonestown Massacre) remembers Christmas with the Dandy Warhols.

Problem Solving With Adam Schatz: Nord Shame

Music
By Adam Schatz | December 12, 2024
By Adam Schatz | December 12, 2024

Problem Solving With Adam Schatz: Nord Shame

The Landlady frontman is back to fix your life (or at least your keyboard).

Who Are We This Christmas?

Music
By Pleasure Systems | November 22, 2024
By Pleasure Systems | November 22, 2024

Who Are We This Christmas?

Clarke Sondermann (Pleasure Systems) on the holidays as a reminder of the passage of time.

Role Models: Mohammad-Reza Shajarian Is Ded Hyatt’s Guiding Light

Music
By Ded Hyatt | November 20, 2024
By Ded Hyatt | November 20, 2024

Role Models: Mohammad-Reza Shajarian Is Ded Hyatt’s Guiding Light

“The most important thing was to sing with feeling, like the master…”

Problem Solving with Adam Schatz: Green Room Rock Photos

Music
By Adam Schatz | November 13, 2024
By Adam Schatz | November 13, 2024

Problem Solving with Adam Schatz: Green Room Rock Photos

A new column from the Landlady artist/problem-solver-at-large.

In Defense Of: Bob Dylan’s Christian Era

Music
By Chat Pile | October 30, 2024
By Chat Pile | October 30, 2024

In Defense Of: Bob Dylan’s Christian Era

Chat Pile’s Raygun Busch thinks Slow Train Coming, Saved, and Shot of Love deserve a reappraisal.

Role Models: Elliott Smith Inspires Liv Greene to Be the Whole Band

Music
By Liv Greene | October 16, 2024
By Liv Greene | October 16, 2024

Role Models: Elliott Smith Inspires Liv Greene to Be the Whole Band

The singer-songwriter/guitarist on how a fateful listen to his Cat Stevens cover eventually shaped her as an artist.

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