Sep 02, 2015
By Matt Fink
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When Destroyer released Kaputt in 2011, Dan Bejar had no reason to expect that he had made a breakthrough album. Kaputt was a different kind of record for him—looser, more playful, more immediate than anything in his overflowing catalog.
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Aug 28, 2015
By Matt Fink
Beach House
Though it has been only a little over 10 years since she started Beach House with bandmate Alex Scally, vocalist/keyboardist Victoria Legrand has the perspective of a much older musician.
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Aug 28, 2015
By Kyle Mullin
Bobcat Goldthwait
The standups open up about the tragedy and comedy in their new documentary, Call Me Lucky.
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Aug 25, 2015
By Matt Fink
Will Butler
Will Butler must be crazy. One assumes that was the first thought that flashed through the minds of songwriters everywhere when they heard that the Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist had decided to write, record, and release a new song every day during the last week of February.
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Aug 21, 2015
By Mike Hilleary
Wolf Alice
Going to school in London Ellie Rowsell knew she wanted to be in a band. Unfortunately none of the people she knew within her immediate social circle could even put a few chords together on guitar or play the drums.
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Aug 21, 2015
By Matt Fink
Fear the Walking Dead
You probably know more about The Walking Dead than Cliff Curtis. Though the zombie thriller has utterly dominated cable TV for the past three years, pulling in a record-setting 17 million viewers for its season five premiere, Curtis was not one of them.
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Aug 21, 2015
By Austin Trunick
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Over the last 15 years, James Ransone has built his career on cult roles. Television fans are most likely to recognize him from his David Simon collaborations. On the second season of The Wire he played Ziggy Sobotka, the wayward son of the head of the dockworkers’ union; he starred in Generation Kill as Corporal Josh Ray Person, the motormouthed driver of the lead Humvee.
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Aug 20, 2015
By Matt Fink
Fear the Walking Dead
Cliff Curtis isn’t used to playing nice guys. Over his 22-year career, the New Zealand-born actor has played a gang member (Training Day), an FBI man (Live Free or Die Hard), a cranky Marine (Runaway Jury), and a variety of drug dealers and otherwise unsavory characters (Bringing Out the Dead,Blow).
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Aug 17, 2015
By Frank Valish
San Fermin
Ellis Ludwig-Leone has a degree in classical music composition from Yale University. He has earned residency at the prestigious Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada.
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