Dec 12, 2018 By Austin Trunick Issue #64 -  Kamasi Washington

With a career that spans three decades and four Academy Award nominations, Ethan Hawke is among the premiere names in film. First making his mark as a young actor in movies such as Dead Poet's Society, Reality Bites, and Before Sunrise, Hawke has remained one of the most consistent American actors, going on to win further acclaim for his roles in such works as Gattaca, Training Day, and Boyhood.  More

Dec 07, 2018 By Christopher Roberts Web Exclusive

To end out the week, we ask Anatole "Toto" Serret of Parcels some questions about endings and death.

Dec 06, 2018 By Mark Redfern Web Exclusive

My Firsts is our email interview series where we ask musicians to tell us about their first life experiences, be it early childhood ones (first word, first concert, etc.) or their first tastes of being a musician (first band, first tour, etc.). For this My Firsts we talk to Dave Tattersall of The Wave Pictures. More

Nov 30, 2018 By Matt Fink Issue #64 -  Kamasi Washington

Rickey Washington has told the story more times than he can count. He was a young college student, almost completely ignorant of the history and culture of West Africa, the first time he went to Ghana on a school-building mission in 1975.  More

Nov 28, 2018 By Conrad Duncan Issue #64 -  Kamasi Washington

When Héloïse Letissier emerged on the international stage as Christine and the Queens, via a spell-binding dance routine to her breakthrough single "Titled," she  appeared like a pop-star from a bygone-era. Quiet, bookish, and altogether unassuming, the French singer was the sort of artist you could walk past every day and never recognize. The demure persona was not an accident. More

Nov 27, 2018 By Ben Jardine Issue #64 -  Kamasi Washington

For a project borne in a Virginia Tech dorm room in 2009, Jack Tatum's Wild Nothing has, at least from an audience's point of view, seamlessly morphed into a product of post-collegiate self-awareness.  More

Nov 21, 2018 By Anna Calvi Issue #64 -  Kamasi Washington

We asked Anna Calvi to take a self-portrait. We also asked her to write a list of personal things—interesting facts that fans may perhaps not know about her. More

Nov 19, 2018 By Mark Redfern Web Exclusive

My Firsts is our email interview series where we ask musicians to tell us about their first life experiences, be it early childhood ones (first word, first concert, etc.) or their first tastes of being a musician (first band, first tour, etc.). For this My Firsts we talk to How to Dress Well (aka Tom Krell). More

Nov 16, 2018 By Chris K. Davidson Issue #64 -  Kamasi Washington

To end out the week, we ask Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie (and also The Postal Service) some questions about endings and death. Death Cab for Cutie has been a pivotal act in bringing indie rock to the mainstream in the mid-to-late 2000s with seminal releases such as Transatlanticism, Plans, and Narrow Stairs.  More