Oct 23, 2013
By Frank Valish
Laura Marling
Midway through “Master Hunter,” the fifth song on London songwriter Laura Marling‘s fourth album, Once I Was an Eagle, she steals a lyric from Bob Dylan. Calling out a man who seems to want her for self-serving reasons, Marling sings, with a confident yet passive-aggressive viciousness: “It ain’t me, babe. No, no, no, it ain’t me, babe.” More
Oct 23, 2013
By Chris Tinkham
Issue #47 - September/October 2013 - MGMT
I’ve just finished one of the most disgusting jobs I’ve ever done in my life,” says Andrew Hunt, vocalist/ guitarist for the Liverpool art-rock five-piece, Outfit. In the weeks leading up to the release of the band’s debut LP, Performance, Hunt has been spending time in New York with his girlfriend, who lives in Brooklyn. More
Oct 21, 2013
By Matt Fink
of Montreal
For our Track-by-Track feature, we go in-depth with an artist about each song on their new album. This week we are featuring of Montreal‘s Lousy With Sylvianbriar, and for the next three days we’ll post commentary by frontman Kevin Barnes on all of the album’s songs. More
Oct 18, 2013
By John Everhart
Issue #47 - September/October 2013 - MGMT
There’s a glorious pop sheen that imbues neo-shoegazers Crocodiles’ fourth album, Crimes of Passion. After a lengthy discussion with their New York-based singer/guitarist and co-songwriter Brandon Welchez, it isn’t in the least surprising that they’d have these proclivities. More
Oct 18, 2013
By Hays Davis
Issue #46 - June/July 2013 - Charli XCX
Eight months before the official release of Jonathan Bates’ electronic-rock debut album as Big Black Delta, he found himself in the unlikely plum position of opening for Jane’s Addiction on a leg of the band’s summer 2012 tour. More
