Nov.11 Cover - Feist
Feist Is In It For Herself. You Just Happen To Be Listening Feist tiptoes along a shaky tightrope. For a lot of artists haphazardly grouped as the Canadian-American's peers, plummeting from that wire...
View ArticleDec.11 Cover - Charlotte Gainsbourg
Whisper of the HeartCharlotte Gainsbourg, In a Melancholia Mood On a beautiful cloudless afternoon in early autumn, a mother gracefully, joyfully spins a half-step under the shady trees of MacDougal...
View ArticleJan.12 Cover - Kathleen Edwards
Kathleen Edwards: From Failer to VoyageurA few things about Kathleen Edwards. She's Canadian – from Ottawa, actually – and proud of it. She's a Cancer with curly red hair and beautiful teeth. She...
View ArticleFeb.12 Cover - The Asteroids Galaxy Tour
Sunshine Coolin'The Asteroids Galaxy Tour is Hoping to Take You AwayBright and colorful, goofy but groovy, silly but sexy and unconditionally danceable, the music of Danish group the Asteroids Galaxy...
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Smooth MovesBear in Heaven Turn Down the “Crazy.” And It’s Cool.Going into the studio to record its new record, the members of Bear in Heaven knew what they wanted.“We needed somebody to take our crazy...
View ArticleJune.12 Cover - Kelly Hogan
Hogan Here When I call Kelly Hogan one recent afternoon, she’s sitting in her old car, Marge, staking out the Piggly Wiggly parking lot near her house in Wisconsin. “I’m gonna go in and buy some...
View ArticleOct.12 Cover - Jens Lekman
Heavy Baggage: The Jens Lekman MethodClosure after an emotional setback is different for everybody. For Jens Lekman, it doesn’t really exist. Unlike the rest of Lekman’s more than 10 years worth of...
View ArticleNov.12 Cover - Drivin' n' Cryin'
Ain’t Waitin’ on TomorrowKevn Kinney Shares His Thoughts on a Rejuvenated Drivin’ n’ Cryin’During the second half of the 1980s, I’d go see nearly every local show they played. Scarred But Smarter...
View ArticleDec.12 Cover - Shoes
Whatever’s ComfortableNew Shoes or Old Shoes, Still a Perfect FitThey’re known today only to power-pop fanatics, primarily, but within that realm, Shoes are revered as one of the genre’s greatest and...
View ArticleJan.13 Cover - Redd Kross
One of the Good OnesThe World’s Getting Uglier. Redd Kross Just Keeps Getting Better.Sometimes you don’t realize how much you’ve missed something until it returns. Such was the case with Redd Kross, a...
View ArticleFeb.13 Cover - Black Moth Super Rainbow
Juicy JuiceTobacco Pipes in on Black Moth Super RainbowIt makes sense that Tom Fec got the idea for his alias from the creepy “Tobacco Man” character in Troma’s late ‘80s, low-budget ,straight-to-VHS...
View ArticleMarch.13 Cover - Wire
On ReturningColin Newman Connects Wire – Past, Present and Future“Wire’s first three albums are a bit too revered.”I beg to differ, but it’s a provocative statement coming from one of those albums’...
View ArticleApril.13 Cover - Dead Confederate
Southern MenDead Confederate’s Ragged GloryIf Neil Young is the Godfather of Grunge (along with a few other rock ‘n’ roll sub-genres), then Dead Confederate are among his (numerous)...
View ArticleMay.13 Cover - Father John Misty
Play Father John Misty for MeJeff Clark Talks to Josh Tillman About Altered States, Artificial Honesty and the Damned Kids That Don’t Know Shit About ShitHere’s a handful of facts and observations...
View ArticleJune.13 Cover - Kylesa
The Unseen LightKylesa Emerges From the Darkness With Its Best Music YetThe rays do penetrate the maelstrom, reassuringly, ephemeral but gleaming. But from the jolting get-go, Kylesa’s new album,...
View ArticleJuly.13 Cover - Prince Rama
Utopia, Now and ForeverAll That Glitters Is Prince RamaIt wasn’t until last year that I discovered Prince Rama, when Animal Collective’s Paw Tracks label released their album Top 10 Hits of the End of...
View ArticleAug.13 Cover - Gregg Allman
Trouble No MoreHas Gregg Allman Finally Found Health and Happiness?“I’ll go to the end…I’m not trained for much else, bro. Not to mention it’s my passion,” says Gregg Allman when he’s presented with a...
View ArticleSept.13 Cover - Washed Out
Guilt-Free EscapismWashed Out’s Happy DelusionsWhile the currents have significantly calmed, it was only a few years ago that the chillwave genre seemed to be perpetually cresting. A focal point of...
View ArticleNov.13 Cover - Kate Nash
Archetype for a New Pop StarKate Nash’s Constructive Crudeness Everything I surmised about Kate Nash until recently was wrong. When Allie Hanlon of Peach Kelli Pop described to me her experience of...
View ArticleDec.13 Cover - The Waitresses
Waitresses Unwrapped!Guitarist Songwriter Chris Butler Dishes on the Band’s Origins, Heyday, Downfall and LegacyThough they only truly existed a few brief years, recording two albums, an EP and a...
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