Oct 31, 2018 By Erika Spring Web Exclusive

Erika Spring of Au Revoir Simone (and Nice As Fuck, with Jenny Lewis) writes about Bronx congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Oct 30, 2018 By Moby Moby

To help motivate our American readers to get out to the voting booth next week, we’ve asked some notable musicians to share words of encouragement. In this piece, Moby writes plainly about why you need to vote next week.

Oct 12, 2018 By Steve King Web Exclusive

The American president is a stand-in for whatever god you want to believe in, and He is given almost absolute power by His subjects and their courts. He is a man who can be in all rooms at all times. Religion (and history) are a lie agreed upon, so the Church of Trumposophy should have come as no surprise. It’s not just a religion. It’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s not a belief structure. It’s a way of life.

Oct 05, 2018 By Madeline Kenney Paul Simon

Madeline Kenney released her sophomore album, Perfect Shapes, today via Carpark. In this guest post for us, she writes about one of her personal favorite albums, an album she considers underrated, Paul Simon’s 1980 album One-Trick Pony.

Sep 17, 2018 By Timothy Michalik Web Exclusive

“It was very, very psychedelic. We had candles and oil wheels, strobes going, sometimes just total darkness in the studio. You’d get totally disorientated, no daylight, no time frame.” So goes the story, told by Talk Talk’s engineer Phil Brown, when discussing the synth pop-turned-art rocker’s landmark 1988 album Spirit of Eden.

Sep 14, 2018 By Alan Sparhawk (as told to Matt Conner) Low

Musical awakenings come in all forms. For an adolescent Alan Sparhawk in Bemidji, Minnesota, he has Minnesota punk legends The Suburbs to thank for opening his eyes (and ears).

Sep 12, 2018 By Tom Chapman ShadowParty

What’s in a Name? is our recurring guest blog series where an artist writes about how they came up their band name. For this edition we hear from Tom Chapman of ShadowParty.

Sep 10, 2018 By Austin Trunick

Kingdomino won 2017’s Spiel des Jahres award, the tabletop industry’s equivalent of a Best Picture Oscar.

Aug 30, 2018 By Jack Tatum (as told to Ben Jardine) Web Exclusive

A song is a chance overlapping of countless variables in an artist’s life. Anatomy of a Song is a place where those variables can be dissected and examined. In this edition, Wild Nothing (aka Jack Tatum) discusses “Partners in Motion.”