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Interview: Zac Pennington from Parenthetical Girls
Anyone who has caught a Parenthetical Girls concert knows that the band’s frontman Zac Pennington handles the stage like some magical combination of Oscar Wilde and Cillian Murphy, all sharp cheekbones and an even
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Interview: Kurt Wagner from Lambchop
I asked Kurt Wagner if we could talk about his friend Vic Chesnutt, who committed suicide in 2009, before I started recording our discussion. To be fair, it would be somewhat cathartic for me
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Interview: Brock Van Wey (aka BVDUB)
Ambient and electronic music may have a reputation for some as being nice relaxing music that you can put on to escape from life, but the music of Brock Van Wey (aka bvdub) is,
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Interview: Tim Booth of James
Last year when I interviewed Larry Gott and Jim Glennie of James before the band’s set, I could say I never thought I would have the opportunity to see the band play live. A
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Interview: Adam Wills of Bear in Heaven
It’s not every year a band this hard working and this creative comes out. We caught up with Adam Wills of Bear in Heaven the night they kicked off their North American tour at
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Interview: I Self Devine
Rhymesayers MC I Self Devine, one of the most respected names in underground hip-hop, returns this May with The Sound of Low Class Amerika, his first album since Self Destruction (2005). We sat down
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Interview: Charles Brand of the Miniature Tigers
As twee indie-pop goes, the Miniature Tigers are the green fairy in your absinthe, the psychedelic edge of sweetness. Doe-eyed singer Charles Brand has a Cindy-Lou-Who voice that you lean in close to hear,
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Interview: oOoOO’s Christopher Greenspan
Christopher Greenspan, the San Francisco artist behind oOoOO makes pitch-black witchy R&B mini-opuses. His memorable 2010 self-titled EP, released on the New York/London imprint Tri Angle Records, traverses warped worlds of Southern rap, hyper-dub,
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Interview: Patricia Hall and Ian Hicks from Soft Metals
Patricia Hall and Ian Hicks make dreamy dance music with big synths, big vocals and big percussion. Their self-titled debut out now on Captured Tracks was the understated electronic album of 2011. Gauzy drum
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Interview: Dave Boulter from Tindersticks
Formed in 1991, the Tindersticks have just released ninth album The Something Rain. Their music is difficult to categorize but unmistakably their own, both swooningly romantic and calmly restrained, its ember-like intensity delicately hidden
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