Gig Economy is a Talkhouse series in which artists tell us about their work histories, from part-time pasts to the present tense, in order to demystify the many different paths that can lead to a career as a working musician. Here, Morgan Enos (Other Houses) talks how his career in music led him down a […]
A year ago, Robert Pollard, the singer for the rock band Guided by Voices, placed his fingers to my lips. My girlfriend at the time had designed a poster for their show at the Fonda Theatre, so we headed to Los Angeles two nights after catching the band’s euphoric set at the Rio in Santa […]
I was no stranger to being trapped at home prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: I’m a parent. Getting out has often been a struggle. As vaccines have become widely available, infections less deadly, and the landscape more open, the social relevance of livestreaming appears to be fading. But mine meant the world […]
Paul Shaffer believes that rock was born — and died — with Chuck Berry. “To me, this man invented something that we call rock & roll,” he says at a Q&A with journalist Alan Light after a screening of PBS special Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man, out last Saturday (February 29). “When he passed […]
Late last year, Talkhouse Film contributors and a select few friends of the site voted on their favorite theatrical releases of 2019; you can see the aggregated results here. Below are ballots from a selection of the filmmakers who took part in the voting process.Rodney Ascher 1. Parasite 2. Too Old to Die Young 3. […]
My family unraveled and snapped back together in an unrecognizable form last year, leaving me with too many thoughts and too much energy. When things felt out of control, I’d blast some heavy metal or Hardcore History and take off running from Queens to Brooklyn. It wasn’t really the best place for a jog, but […]
Welcome to the 2016 Talkies, Talkhouse Music’s year-end writers poll. We reached out to our amazing stable of contributors — all of them are, of course, musicians — and asked them to rank their ten favorite records of 2016. The results of the poll are here — and, should you need any musician-approved music suggestions going into 2017, each […]
Now is the season of fogged-up shades, oddly shaped sunburns and songs that make us want to stay outside until the last firefly blinks to sleep. As summer dawns, we asked our contributors to choose the songs that will score those muggy days (daze?). Usually, we ask that our contributors write about music that they […]
Prince Rogers Nelson, known to most as simply Prince, was a one-of-a-kind artist. Throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s, he released a series of massively successful and influential albums that blended funk, new wave, blues and dance — ones that continue to shape modern pop music to this day. With his high-pitched squeals and astonishing, psychedelic […]
