Interview: Salem metalcore vets Converge send home the guests for an explosive new album
Following a release that loaded up on guest stars, Salem metalcore vets Converge send their friends home for the explosive…
11 years ago
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Interview: Swans crafts “total experience” on double album The Seer
The Seer, the new double album that follows Swans’ productive 2010 reunion and studio return, is a space in which…
11 years ago
Interview: Dinosaur Jr.’s chemistry, formula, and pursuit of perfection intact on I Bet on Sky
On its third album since reuniting with its original lineup, Dinosaur Jr. is as relevant as ever — and still…
11 years ago
Interview with Tim Fite: Little-T Ain’t Stealin’ No More
For the final installment of his Ain’t trilogy on Anti- Records, singer-songrapper Tim Fite reinvents his own unconventional process. He’s…
11 years ago
Interview: Animal Collective on the “alien rock-‘n’-roll” sounds of Centipede Hz
Channeling an alien rock group covering The Hollies, Animal Collective found inspiration in different places for its new record, Centipede…
11 years ago
Interview: Sigh’s lucid nightmares inform eclectic, metallic In Somniphobia
Formed in Tokyo in 1990, Sigh isn’t like most extreme metal bands. To the uninitiated: Imagine Mr. Bungle, doubled down…
11 years ago
Interview: Dan Deacon on the importance (or lack thereof) of formal music education
Dan Deacon, electronic music auteur and one-man dance party who has a degree in being a one-man dance party, thinks…
11 years ago
Interview: Fang Island on laughter, positivity, and touring Japan
Anthemic rock quintet Fang Island described its self-titled debut as "the sound of everyone high-fiving everyone." Its sophomore effort builds…
11 years ago
Connectivity and the colossus: Swedish metal mavens Meshuggah on alternate musical pathways
Meshuggah’s constantly shifting approaches to making brutal, esoteric music are instinctively multi-rhythmic and uncompromising. As a result, Koloss -- its…
11 years ago
Doug Stanhope on subversive comedy, NFL aesthetics, and music snobbery
Few comedians are as inspired by sociologist James Loewen as by abortion jokes. But Doug Stanhope, in case you haven’t…
11 years ago
Divorcing convention: Marriages makes post-rock bliss on Kitsuné
With unique elements that force post-rock to evolve, Marriages — featuring members of Red Sparowes and The Nocturnes — brings…
11 years ago
Interview: The Magnetic Fields drops an emotional bathysphere
On Love at the Bottom of the Sea, Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields take an emotional deep-sea journey, summoning…
11 years ago