Nov 19, 2013
By Laura Studarus
NONONO
NONONO producers-turned-band members Tobias “Astma” Jimson and Michel Rocwell have been working with hip-hop luminaries for over 10 years in their native Sweden. So perhaps, on some level, it’s appropriate to say that Swedish pop trio NONONO arrived with significantly more experience than the average musical newbies. More
Nov 15, 2013
By Mike Hilleary
HAERTS
If they were ever to fuse their collective DNA in some future sci-fi experiment, the members of HAERTS are in full agreement that their resulting progeny would be unlike any other. “It would be beautiful,” laughs frontwoman and vocalist Christina “Nini” Fabi. “But I would have to give birth to it, don’t forget.” More
Nov 15, 2013
By Matt Fink
MGMT
In the fall of 2010, an article came out in the U.K. announcing that MGMT‘s creative license had expired. More
Nov 14, 2013
By Matt Fink
MGMT
“This is our decision/To live fast and die young/We’ve got the vision/Now let’s have some fun.” Those words, taken from MGMT‘s 2008 breakout single “Time to Pretend,” have become a rallying cry of sorts, a party-‘til-you-die anthem for people who want to dream big and party defiantly. More
Nov 13, 2013
By Selena Fragassi
Issue #47 - September/October 2013 - MGMT
Chelsea Wolfe is trying to remember the name of the Werner Herzog film she loves so much, that one about Antarctica. Arctic Circle? Journey to the End of the Earth? She ruminates for a second. “Encounters at the End of the World, that’s it!” More
Nov 12, 2013
By Dan Lucas
Temples
About an hour’s train ride north of London, Kettering, England has the country’s second oldest theme park, was once a hotbed for Britain’s boot and shoe industry until many of the factories closed in the 1970s and ‘80s, and was visited several times by Hollywood actor Clark Gable during World War II (he was stationed at a nearby air base), but it isn’t particularly well-known for its music scene. More
Nov 11, 2013
By John Everhart
Issue #47 - September/October 2013 - MGMT
As a trainspotter who can wax rhapsodic over obscure B-sides from The Smiths and extol the virtues of Felt’s Goldmine Trash, Belle and Sebastian‘s Stuart Murdoch is something of an aficionado of compilation albums. In 2005 his band released Push Barman to Open Old Wounds, a compilation of their early singles and EPs from their time with Jeepster Records. More
Nov 08, 2013
By Matt Fink
Arctic Monkeys
The Kinks, The Smiths, Pulp—all quintessentially English bands that have, for whatever reason, found far more success in the United Kingdom than in the United States. Add to that list Arctic Monkeys, the million-selling, critically lauded quartet that, despite having made some inroads in recent years, largely remains a curiosity in the United States—too mainstream to be widely celebrated by the American indie press yet too identifiably British to really fit on the American Top 40 pop charts. More
Nov 08, 2013
By Chris Tinkham
Jess Weixler
There’s a hint of protectiveness in actress Jess Weixler’s voice when she discusses the anxiety issues suffered by Kristin, the character she plays in Best Man Down. After all, the film’s writer/director, Ted Koland, wanted to put Weixler’s character, a new bride, through extenuating circumstances while skewering the increasingly obsessive nature of wedding planning and the unrealistic expectations that go with it. More
