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Media Jeweler is an LA-based post-punk band. Their album The Sublime Sculpture of Being Alive is out August 13, 2021 via Fire Talk.

Media Jeweler

Music

Last Night a KJ Saved My Life

Sadie Dupuis is the guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter of rock band Speedy Ortiz. She&#8217;s also the producer &amp; multi-instrumentalist behind pop project Sad13. Sadie heads the record label Wax Nine, has written for outlets including Spin, Nylon, and Playboy, and holds an MFA in poetry from UMass Amherst. Mouthguard, her first book, was published in 2018.
(Photo Credit: Jordan Edwards)

Sadie Dupuis

SPOTTED: Sad13 Watching Gossip Girl, #5

Sacramento songwriter Tré Burt&#8216;s sophomore album is You, Yeah, You. It was produced by Brad Cook and recorded at Sound Pure studio in Durham, NC, and will be out August 27, 2021 via Oh Boy Records.
(Photo Credit: Lance Bangs)

Tré Burt

Introducing: Tré Burt’s “Dixie Red”

Greg Saunier heard &#8220;Start Me Up&#8221; when he was 13 and from that day forward has devoted his life to rock music. He is the drummer for Deerhoof as well as a composer and producer.

Greg Saunier

Woodstock ’99, or How To Do a USA in Late Capitalism

Gilles Peterson launched his own pirate radio station and played his first DJ set aged 15. He’s been DJ’ing and broadcasting ever since.
Journalist/publisher Paul Bradshaw began writing about music in the mid &#8217;70s. In the summer of 1988 he, Neil Spencer and Kathryn Willgress launched &#8220;designer fanzine&#8221; Straight No Chaser. Rooted in the jazz-dance club scene the magazine traveled worldwide uniting a community of like minded souls. Under the art direction of Swifty the zine continued to evolve visually while the growing roster of young writers, photographers and illustrators negotiated the rapid evolution of club culture. After two decades of independent publishing, illuminating the music of the African diaspora, the magazine of ‘Interplanetary Sounds: Ancient To Future’ had to call it a day – an early victim of the internet. Over the next decade Bradshaw continued to write while curating exhibitions and live performances. In 2018, he picked up where they had left off with #SNC98 and re-launched Straight No Chaser. In 2019, he published #SNC100 Vol.1 feat. interviews with nu-skool artists alongside classics from the Chaser archive. As the pandemic kicked in #SNC100 Vol.2 was put on hold. During Lockdown Bradshaw retreated into the Daoist practices of the Ba Men Da Xuan school.
(Photo of Gilles Peterson by Rob Jones.)

Gilles Peterson & Paul Bradshaw

Book Excerpt: Gilles Peterson’s Lockdown FM: Broadcasting in a Pandemic

Talkhouse Weekend Playlist: The Roots of Cochemea

Talkhouse Weekend Playlist: Take a Trip to Puerto Rico with Pachyman

Your favorite musicians, filmmakers, and other creative minds one-on-one. No moderator, no script, no typical questions. The Talkhouse Podcast offers unique insights into creative work from all genres and generations. <a href="https://pod.link/Talkhouse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Subscribe now</a>, and explore more illuminating shows on the <a href="https://talkhouse.com/category/podcast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Talkhouse Podcast Network.</a>

Talkhouse Podcast

John Darnielle is a novelist and the primary member of the Mountain Goats. The band&#8217;s latest album, In League With Dragons, is out April 26 via Merge Records.
(Photo Credit: Lalitree Darnielle)

John Darnielle

Podcast

John Darnielle (The Mountain Goats) Talks with Maggie Smith on the Talkhouse Podcast

A reformed wild child, in recent years Kate Vargas has traded the party for meditation, yoga, clean eating and a renewed focus on what she values most — her music. The New Mexico-raised, NYC-based artist is building ever more mindfully on her sound, and the music press is taking notice, Vargas receiving praise from a variety of respected outlets including Billboard, NPR, Noisey, and the Huffington Post, the latter assessing, “There is an unlimited amount of potential in this superstar on the rise.” Her new album Rumpumpo is out now.

Kate Vargas

A Rough Guide to Getting By Without Getting High

Mark Speer is the guitarist and a founding member of the Houston, TX-based trio Khruangbin. Their latest album, Mordechai Remixes, is out August 2021 via Dead Oceans/Night Time Stories Ltd.
(Photo Credit: Tasmin Isaacs)

Mark Speer

Khruangbin and Bill Brewster Talk the Joy of Messing Around in the Studio

SPOTTED: Sad13 Watching Gossip Girl, #4

Kristina Moore writes songs about the anti-place, a state of being understood by truckers, deckhands, flight attendants, and touring musicians. An in-between existence where home becomes blurry, and improvised routines provide temporary comfort. That liminal experience was only exasperated when Moore relocated to New York and then immediately hit the road, spending every weeknight in a different club around the country, her bags still unpacked and her world in stasis.
koleżanka&#8216;s debut album, Place Is, distills the experiences of a lifetime into sound. These songs could easily soundtrack a late night drive through the Phoenix desert, cacti and the pupils of wildlife illuminated under the yellow glow of headlights