Apr 06, 2015 By Zach Hollwedel Web Exclusive

It’s probably hard to find someone who loves going to work more than Alyssa Sutherland, and she has all the reason in the world to be so pumped. The Australian actress and model stars in History Channel’s award-winning series, Vikings, as Princess Aslaug, Ragnar Lothbrok’s wife and the most powerful woman in their village.

Apr 03, 2015 By Austin Trunick Web Exclusive

In early 1960s London, aspiring filmmakers Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp set out to make a documentary about the city’s rock and roll youth culture, and signed a little-known band named The High Numbers to appear as their subject. That band eventually changed their name to The Who, and became one of music’s most famous acts—but not without the help of the big-thinking, unorthodox management duo behind them. The new documentary, Lambert & Stamp, shines a spotlight on these two iconoclastic characters and the legacy they left on rock and roll music. Earlier this week, director James D. Cooper spoke with us about the documentary’s origins.

Apr 01, 2015 By Laura Studarus Elliphant

“My music is not so deep,” Ellinor Olovsdotter, better known as Elliphant, bluntly admits. “When it comes to all kinds of art, I’m a sucker for the simple.”

Apr 01, 2015 By Laura Studarus Calexico

It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that Joey Burns loves to travel. Since 1997, the Calexico frontman has made his living writing music infused with life on the road.

Mar 31, 2015 By Laura Studarus Stromae

It’s a strange place that Paul Van Haver, better known as Stromae, finds himself in these days.

Mar 25, 2015 By Stephen Humphries Web Exclusive

When Laura Marling lived in L.A., a part of her died. Specifically, her ego. The British songwriter relocated to America soon after completing her fourth album, 2013’s Once I Was an Eagle (which became her third album to be nominated for a Mercury Prize). She moved in search of adventure—and got more than she bargained for.

Mar 20, 2015 By Laura Studarus Jamie Lidell

Other than the jet lag, Jamie Lidell’s life is going pretty well.

Mar 20, 2015 By Matt Fink Tyler James Williams

[Spoiler alert: If you haven’t watched last week’s episode, “Spend,” which aired March 15, then read no further.] Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman has said that he works hard to give his characters a suitable end, leaving the most memorable (and most gruesome) deaths for the show’s most significant characters.

Mar 19, 2015 By Matt Fink Web Exclusive

The indie rock culture wars are finally over. That’s the only real conclusion you can draw when indie bands win Grammys and underground music publications routinely give their most glowing reviews to Top 40 pop stars. For anyone who came of age in the post-Nirvana era of Pavement, Guided by Voices, and Yo La Tengo—bands that could flirt with mainstream approval but never quite escape being placed in the “other” category—this is a strange watershed moment, one that seems to have washed away a whole culture with its arrival. Count of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes as one who is still getting used to the new terrain after the flood.