Mar 06, 2017 By Lily Moayeri Issue # 59 - 15th Anniversary

“If you’d said to me 10 years ago while I was making beats in my bedroom in Sydney, ‘In 10 years you’re going to be sharing a studio with Andrew Weatherall and Ewan Pearson in London,’ I would have said, ‘No fucking chance,’” says Jono Ma, the musical epicenter of Australia’s Jagwar Ma, as he gives a tour of the studio space he shares in a grim industrial estate in North London. More

Mar 03, 2017 By Matt Fink Issue # 59 - 15th Anniversary

Though the Guinness Book of World Records doesn’t award a designation for “Most Time Spent Continuously Working on One Album,” The Avalanches would have to be strong contenders if such a category were created. Sixteen years-that’s how much time passed between the release of 2000’s genre-defining Since I Left You and 2016’s Wildflower. More

Mar 02, 2017 By Lily Moayeri Issue # 59 - 15th Anniversary

In the 15 years The Radio Dept. has been around, the Swedish duo has tried valiantly to resist the required expectations of musicians: touring, promotion, interaction, even putting out albums has been a struggle. Despite this, The Radio Dept.‘s Johan Duncanson and Martin Carlberg (ne Larsson) have managed to maintain a strong international following, gaining cult-like status in the process. More

Mar 01, 2017 By Matt Fink Weyes Blood

Ten years ago, you never would have expected Natalie Mering to make an album like Front Row Seat to Earth. Back then, she was 18 years old and playing bass with noise-rockers Jackie-O Motherfucker, working on tracks that tangled witchy electronics around gothy folk as Weyes Bluhd. More