Jan 07, 2019 By Matt Conner Web Exclusive

There’s a title track for Peter Bjorn and John’s new album, but you’ll never hear it—at least not now.

Jan 03, 2019 By Charles Steinberg Moonface

The reasons for art needing the outlier are self-evident but one is worth mentioning when considering Spencer Krug’s solo work. There is great potential in eccentricity. For over a decade of searching from within, and far outwith, under the guises of Sunset Rubdown and Moonface, Krug’s personal departures have given definition to contours of the outer banks of his medium.

Dec 20, 2018 By Jordan J. Michael Matthew Dear

Professionally making music for close to 20 years, Matthew Dear has been to many different places. He’s hitched plane rides all over the map and completed uncountable collaborations while maintaining a solo career. Basically, he’s a militia man of the international electronic scene, producing whimsical music at a militaristic rate.

Dec 14, 2018 By Mark Redfern Web Exclusive

To end out the week, we ask Graham Wright of Tokyo Police Club some questions about endings and death. Wright talks about how he’d like to die, what song he’d like performed at his funeral, his favorite endings to books and movies, his concepts of heaven and hell, and his unique plan for not dying.

Dec 12, 2018 By Austin Trunick Ethan Hawke

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.

Dec 06, 2018 By Mark Redfern The Wave Pictures

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.

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.

Nov 28, 2018 By Conrad Duncan Christine and the Queens

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.

Nov 27, 2018 By Ben Jardine Wild Nothing

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.