Aug 14, 2015 By Mike Hilleary Death Cab for Cutie

A few days before our interview, Ben Gibbard broke his right wrist. An avid long-distance runner for the past number of years, regularly clocking in 50 or more miles in a given week, the Death Cab for Cutie frontman was taking part in a 50K trail race on Washington’s Orcas Island when he crossed a slick wooden bridge along the 20 mile mark. More

Aug 07, 2015 By Stephen Humphries Laura Marling

She left before dawn. Laura Marling checked out of a motel in Mount Shasta, California—a locale she feared was “an axe-murderer town”—and drove alone into the woods. When the road ended, she got out and walked in the dark. The British songwriter was following the directions of a stranger she’d met the night before in a bar. The man, a hippie, had told her about a river whose spring water bestows eternal life. She just wanted to fill her tankard and be on her way. More

Aug 05, 2015 By Michael Wojtas Jacco Gardner

“I really like when something crosses over between worlds, to a place where it’s not completely innocent anymore, and gets kind of weird, psychedelic and scary,” explains Jacco Gardner. More

Aug 04, 2015 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 Kim Schifino of Matt and Kim. More