Category: FEATURES

Zola Jesus: Into The Wild
A move back to rural Wisconsin from Seattle has brought renewed faith to Zola Jesus Contrary to author Thomas Wolfe’s

The Dream Syndicate: Sleep No More
Paisley Underground legends the Dream Syndicate release their first album in three decades Given that the first Dream Syndicate album

John Giorno: Poetic Justice
Multimedia legend John Giorno celebrates his 80th birthday with New York City-wide retrospective To say John Giorno is a gentleman,

Dälek: No Boundaries
With Endangered Philosophies, Dälek continues to blur genre lines Since their band’s 1998 inception, the experimental hip-hop outsiders in Dälek

Jonah Parzen-Johnson: The Seeker
Jonah Parzen-Johnson asks questions, listens to the answers Jonah Parzen-Johnson doesn’t look like a storyteller when he steps onstage. With

Cold Specks: Darkness & Light
Cold Specks quietly meditates on a disintegrating universe Ladan Hussein, the woman who records and performs as Cold Specks, is

Midnight Sister: Loving The Alien
Midnight Sister is walking the dark streets of L.A. When dancer, writer and filmmaker Juliana Giraffe met composer Ari Balouzian

Son Little: Magic Man
With his sophomore album, Son Little adds some color to his bluesy spectrum Since we last witnessed the sad and

Filthy Friends: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
R.E.M.’s Peter Buck and Sleater-Kinney’s Corin Tucker form Filthy Friends When Peter Buck needed another voice on his first solo

Tomo Nakayama: Busker Do
Tomo Nakayama’s intimate songs of quiet intensity After 10 years of writing songs and singing in Grand Hallway, one of

Elizabeth And The Catapult: Childhood’s End
Elizabeth And The Catapult’s Keepsake is part memoir, part dream journal—and all rejuvenating Keepsake (Compass), Elizabeth Ziman’s fourth record, began

A Giant Dog: Growing Pains
The theatrical Austin punks in A Giant Dog mature their mess “Normally, we’re very storyteller-esque,” says A Giant Dog guitarist/vocalist

The Woggles: 30 Rock
Thirty years of involvement in any facet of life is compelling, but three decades of rocking ’n’ rolling in its

Dan Wilson: Write On
Dan Wilson can pretty much pinpoint the moment when his songwriter-for-hire aspirations fully aligned with reality. “One of my first