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. More
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. More
Nov 27, 2018
By Ben Jardine
Issue #64 - Kamasi Washington
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. More
Nov 21, 2018
By Anna Calvi
Anna Calvi
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. More
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). More