Dec 06, 2018 By Mark Redfern The Wave Pictures

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 Dave Tattersall of The Wave Pictures.

Nov 30, 2018 By Matt Fink Issue #64 -  Kamasi Washington

Rickey Washington has told the story more times than he can count. He was a young college student, almost completely ignorant of the history and culture of West Africa, the first time he went to Ghana on a school-building mission in 1975.

Nov 29, 2018 By Mike Hilleary Snail Mail

With her parents at work, Snail Mail’s Lindsey Jordan has the house to herself for the next several hours. Though she still lives at home, the 18-year-old’s time back in the Baltimore suburb of Ellicott City, Maryland is more or less a stopover between several days of promo in New York City earlier in the week and a flight in a few days’ time that will take her across the Atlantic for her first European tour.

Nov 28, 2018 By Conrad Duncan Christine and the Queens

When Héloïse Letissier emerged on the international stage as Christine and the Queens, via a spell-binding dance routine to her breakthrough single “Titled,” she appeared like a pop-star from a bygone-era. Quiet, bookish, and altogether unassuming, the French singer was the sort of artist you could walk past every day and never recognize. The demure persona was not an accident.

Nov 27, 2018 By Ben Jardine Wild Nothing

For a project borne in a Virginia Tech dorm room in 2009, Jack Tatum’s Wild Nothing has, at least from an audience’s point of view, seamlessly morphed into a product of post-collegiate self-awareness.

Nov 26, 2018 By Max Freedman serpentwithfeet

In a small cafe in roughly the center of Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, serpentwithfeet’s fragrance arrives just a moment before he does. In the milliseconds before he appears sporting a beige bucket hat, off-gold tanktop, and baggy, mustard-yellow gym shorts with the acronym “GOAT” running down the left leg, an infusion of comforting, disarming aromas fills the room.

Nov 21, 2018 By Anna Calvi Self-Portrait

We asked Anna Calvi to take a self-portrait. We also asked her to write a list of personal things—interesting facts that fans may perhaps not know about her.

Nov 20, 2018 By Max Freedman Issue #64 -  Kamasi Washington

“Even he would make fun of himself for being a grumpy old guy!” Hariette Pilbeam, the 25-year-old Brisbane-based dream pop songwriter known as Hatchie, is recalling how surprisingly down to earth and welcomingly ordinary she found Robin Guthrie, whose band Cocteau Twins—perhaps the foremost act in the extensive dream pop canon—is a blatant influence.

Nov 19, 2018 By Mark Redfern How to Dress Well

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 How to Dress Well (aka Tom Krell).