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Interview: Aaron Weaver from Wolves in the Throne Room
Aaron Weaver plays drums in the black metal band Wolves in the Throne Room, along with brother Nathan on vocals and guitar. But unlike their Scandinavian forebears, the Weaver brothers reject most of the
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Interview: Blouse
Captured Tracks is one of the most exciting independent record labels fostering the imaginative, hardworking descendants of dark postpunk and shoegaze today that pull from Factory Records and second generation 4 AD. Two weeks
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Interview: Sarah Lipstate of Noveller
We talk with the ambient composer Sarah Lipstate of Noveller about pedals, tour food, recording and Glacial Glow, her most pronounced release yet. What is one of the first pedals you bought? The first
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Interview: Braids
Earlier this year, Spectrum Culture spoke to Raphaelle Standell-Preston, front woman of Montreal’s heady, pedal/effects processor-focused rock band Braids from upstairs at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco. On tour in support of
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Interview: HTRK
HTRK, pronounced “Hate Rock,” a band name that takes a vowel-less and thusly opaque acronym for their dark dream project, uncovers more of their damaged sexual sensibilities and ideas of surviving modern musicianship. Where
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Interview: Nellie McKay
Nellie McKay is politely reserved about her personal life. She’s magnanimous about my home state of Pennsylvania, where she lived briefly in her teen years, and doesn’t even touch my attempt to contrast her
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Interview: The Men
Besides Iceage, The Men are one the most notable acts of 2011 making post-punk music. Like Iceage, they have managed to give the genre a blood transfusion with a vitalizing sonic combination of innovative
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Interview: Jeff Cuellar from Moogfest
Moogfest is coming up this Halloween weekend in Asheville, North Carolina. From Oneohtrix Point Never to M83 to Black Moth Super Rainbow’s Tobacco to Tim Hecker, forerunners of today’s most inventive bands will be
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Interview: Trentemøller
After years of churning out darkly danceable singles and remixes, Danish DJ and musician Anders Trentemøller released his first LP The Last Resort in 2006. Two years later he began touring with a live
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Interview: Mason Jennings
I don’t have many superlatives to my name. I’m tall for a woman, but not exceptionally so. I run at an unremarkable speed. I am passable at a couple of instruments and by dumb
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