Category: FEATURES

With Dead Magic, Anna von Hausswolff freed herself from a dark place Swedish organist Anna von Hausswolff has made the

Simple Minds' Jim Kerr on his 50-year friendship with press-shy music-making partner Charlie Burchill As its longtime lyricist and singer,

Four decades in, Simple Minds still offer songs of faith and devotion “Concentrating on new music gives us something to

If you didn't read our brand-new feature on Mt. Joy, do so now here. In it, the band talks about

Mt. Joy’s fast and furious 21st-century success story If the internet hadn’t upended the music industry 18 years ago, it’s

The Low Anthem’s inner groove and the parable of the salt doll The story of the salt doll, like most

Albert Hammond Jr. is still saying yes to just saying no Diving into the wreck, as feminist poet Adrienne Rich

Albert Hammond Jr. crafts an album about brotherhood, loss and existential identity—and it rocks “I knew the story,” says Albert

Olden Yolk takes folk-inspired music in a futuristic, abstract direction Shane Butler has always been interested in exploring the outer

Casey Spooner talks about his Fischerspooner hiatus “I walked away from music in 2009 and focused on film, theater, visual

Fischerspooner finds common ground with new collaborator Michael Stipe Casey Spooner, singer/co-founder of electro duo Fischerspooner with musician/composer Warren Fischer,

Melbourne’s Totally Mild comes of age with Her “Her is an album about being a woman—knowing women intimately, relating to

Britain’s Wild Beasts end their 15-year career with a live-in-the-studio LP Leaving on a high note was of paramount importance

How Superchunk streamlined its songwriting process Our Noise, John Cook’s excellent oral history of Merge Records written with Mac McCaughan