News
Debut Album Due Out April 26
Mar 29, 2011
By Lauren Barbato
Earlier this month, we reported the dates for Thao & Mirah's West Coast tour. Luckily, the songstresses have decided to head east. We have the added dates. More
Due April 26 on Kill Rock Stars
Jan 25, 2011
By Laura Studarus
On April 26, Thao and Mirah test the theory that two heads are better than one when they team up for their debut self-titled album. More
Also: Magnetic Fields' Claudia Gonson, !!!, Deerhoof, Memory Tapes, Scout Niblett, Mirah
Jan 08, 2010
By Kyle Lemmon
After an initial announcement, the list of bands set to play the 18th annual Noise Pop Festival is growing real long. The San Francisco fest goes down February 23rd-March 1st, and here are a few new notable inclusions: More
Interviews
Jun 02, 2009
By Kyle Lemmon
Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn grew up surrounded by nature. The indie-pop songwriter is used to observing the Ying and Yang in life, after coexisting on a farm community in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, surrounded by her strong Protestant mother and aunts, and the warm Jewish culture on her father's side. After attending college in Olympia, Washington's Evergreen State College, she began experimenting on her 4-track recorder the sounds that would eventually become her debut album You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This. At the same time, her longstanding collaboration with the lo-fi production wizard Phil Elverum, of The Microphones and Mt. Eerie fame, began. Mirah talked with us about the implications of her new project on her general outlook, how she was sheltered from the pervasiveness of what she calls "dude rock," the counsel she would give President Obama if she was in his advisory committee, and the story behind (a)spera's curious extraterrestrial cover. More
