Category: FEATURES

Ruby Friedman Orchestra: Quiet Songs Of Devastation
With Gem, Ruby Friedman Orchestra keeps it real Ruby Friedman is a rocker, but the songs on Gem, her debut

Katie Kim: The Story Of Her Life
Katie Kim opens the Flood gates with her sophomore album Irish autuer Katie Sullivan—who, as Katie Kim, home-records ethereal, loop-based

Ziemba: The Art Of Songwriting
Ziemba’s music is doing the modern dance Hope Is Never, the debut album from René Kladzyk (who performs as Ziemba),

Leland Sundries: Loss And Found
Leland Sundries makes music from, for and about outcasts When Nick Loss-Eaton looked at the songs he’d written for what would

Thalia Zedek Band: Down To The Essence
Eve shows off the Thalia Zedek Band’s impressive musical range “I’ve been looking for ways to make our sound sparser,”

Lisa Prank: Smells Like Teen Spirit
Lisa Prank makes pure pop for punk people Lisa Prank plays electric guitar with an inspiring command of power and

Mick Harvey: Not Lost In Translation
Former Bad Seed Mick Harvey brings you his love for Serge Gainsbourg once again About 20 years ago, Mick Harvey

Band Of Horses: One Of The Girls
Fatherhood and writer’s block fuel Band Of Horses’ new homebody opus Sharing a living space with five females can do

The Posies: Let It Grow
Creative regeneration has sustained the Posies through 30 up-and-down years “We haven't broken up yet. But if we broke up

Bat For Lashes: Wedding Crasher
Bat For Lashes’ Natasha Khan says “I do” with The Bride It might be the cheesiest of all showbiz clichés,

Deerhoof: Fresh Born
By not changing anything (or changing everything), Deerhoof has made The Magic After two decades of crafting noisily compelling avant

The Figgs: Somewhere Under The Radar
Hiding in plain sight, the Figgs demand your attention “Gimmicks," a tune from the Figgs’ new On The Slide (Stomper)—the prolific trio’s

Anna Vogelzang: Declaration Of Independence
Anna Vogelzang continues to do it her way According to singer/songwriter Anna Vogelzang, she had no alternate career path. “There was

The So So Glos: The Glos Of Adulthood
The So So Glos get back to basics but mature philosophically with Kamikaze The past four years have been a whirlwind for the