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.

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.

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.

Jul 31, 2015 By Austin Trunick Web Exclusive

The actor and writer told us about his experience making the intimate The End of the Tour, and his own short story collection, Bream Gives Me Hiccups, due in book stores this fall.

Jul 31, 2015 By Austin Trunick Wet Hot American Summer

In both the movie and the new prequel series First Day of Camp, co-creator Michael Showalter also stars as teenage camp counselor Gerald “Coop” Cooperberg, a lovesick young man with significant girl problems.

Jul 30, 2015 By Austin Trunick Web Exclusive

In the cult classic comedy—as well as the new Netflix prequel series, First Day of Camp—Joe Lo Truglio played Neil, a geeky counselor forced to take heroic action when his friend abandons campers on a dangerous river rafting expedition.

Jul 30, 2015 By Austin Trunick Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

It was as part of The State that Marino first worked with Wet Hot American Summer creators David Wain and Michael Showalter (as well as co-stars Joe Lo Truglio and Michael Ian Black.) In the film and its all-new prequel series, Marino plays camp counselor Victor Pulak, a closeted virgin.

Jul 29, 2015 By Austin Trunick Web Exclusive

We chat with Randall Park about First Day of Camp, Fresh Off the Boat, and the dead-on Eminem impression he did on Scheer-RL.

Jul 29, 2015 By Melody Lau Amason

Amason never had a plan. The story of this Swedish band’s formation spans years of friendship and admiration, a bond that eventually assembled itself into a band in 2012, when members Amanda Bergman, Pontus Winnberg, Petter Winnberg, Nils Törnqvist, and Gustav Ejstes put aside their musical projects to start anew.