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FEATURE: Julia Holter Explains Her Love of Illuminated Manuscripts
Photo by Jake Michaels When most people see illuminated manuscripts, they think of field trips, art-history classes or church. Julia Holter hears voices. Not literal chorus lines; more like muddled memories…and monks. “I’m intrigued by the fact that monks read out loud when they worked,†says Holter. In the past year, Holter’s released two carefully […]
THE SELF-TITLED INTERVIEW: Chris & Cosey (Part II)
Interview by John Doran Check out the first part of our extensive Chris & Cosey interview here, or click this for an exclusive mix featuring the iconic couple and Factory Floor’s Nik Void. And now, for the rest of the story, including Chris & Cosey’s thoughts on Throbbing Gristle’s most infamous records and shows, their […]
VIDEO: Neneh Cherry & The Thing, “Accordion” (Madvillain Cover)
Well this is kinda awesome–a free-jazz version of Madvillain’s “Accordion” single featuring Neneh Cherry on vocals and the Thing on everything else. Which may seem random if you only know Cherry from “Buffalo Stance” and the Thing from their collaborations with Thurston Moore and Jim O’Rourke, but the truth is Cherry’s been involved with indie-esque […]
Stream the Spinto Band’s New Album and Read Their Commentary
“The Spinto Band is still around?” someone in our office said the other day, referring to Wilmington, Delaware’s most reliable indie pop band. A fair question given that four years have passed since the group’s last proper LP (Moonwink) and they’ve basically spent the past 12 months sculpting the self-produced hooks of Shy Pursuit. All […]
THE SELF-TITLED INTERVIEW: Chris & Cosey (Part I)
Words by John Doran Chris & Cosey were known as the Peters and Lee of the long overcoat brigade or the Sonny and Cher of the suicide set depending on which British ‘inkie’ you read during the early ’80s. However, these tags tell you more about the tabloid interests of the English music press than […]
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Frankie Rose, “Apples For the Sun (The Go! Team Remix)”
Check out our recent Frankie Rose feature–where she reveals her family’s pozole recipe–here.
Stream Ramona Falls’ New Album and Read Their Commentary
Words by Arye Dworken A week after Brent Knopf, the affable frontman of Ramona Falls, had finished mastering and mixing the band’s sophomore album Prophet, he went to have his first Tarot card reading. “She assessed me as ‘just floating along’,” he says of the reading, “Not really accomplishing anything.†Aside from the fact that […]
BREAKING: An Interview With … Kishi Bashi
Words by Arye Dworken It’s hard to know where your eyes should go during a Kishi Bashi set. Should they watch the one-man orchestra pluck his violin, beatbox and harmonize alongside his own self-perpetuating loops, or should they scan the crowd–a dumbfounded mix of amused smirks, tilted heads and sporadic bouts of silence, the kind […]