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Silver Liz is the New York-based project of Carrie and Matt Wagner. Their latest record, III, is out now via Extremely Pure.

Silver Liz

Music

Role Models: Silver Liz Bonded Over Beach House

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>

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Art Feynman (aka accomplished recording artist and producer Luke Temple) stitches art-pop, Nigerian highlife, worldbeat, and other lesser-known genres into a musical quilt that displays his unmistakable guile and eccentric songcraft. On his sophomore album Half Price at 3:30 (out now on <a href="https://smarturl.it/ls8g04" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://smarturl.it/ls8g04&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1594406618320000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFBBoLnjNsvhRwgMZDfYkAMTAa3mA">Western Vinyl</a>) he delivers songs that side-smile while pointing out the emotional sinkholes that whirl beneath the most overlooked, seemingly commonplace scenarios. As effortlessly as he inhabits his Art Feynman character he also slips into the lives of other personalities, both living and fictional. Where previous entries in the Luke Temple discography — including his well-liked former group Here We Go Magic — have utilized organic timbres even while sailing far from the guitar-and-drums shore, Half Price sees him employing drum machines, slightly glossier production, and even autotune with a tasteful balance that suggests these tools have been in his kit all along. The result affectionately evokes guerrilla recording predecessors like Francis Bebey, Arthur Russell, and Haruomi Hosono in musicological detail, yet it’s Temple’s hard-won creative voice that resounds over top of it all facing Half Price forward instead of nostalgically backward.
(Photo Credit: Aubrey Trinnaman)

Luke Temple

Podcast

Westerman Talks with Luke Temple on the Talkhouse Podcast

Sam Wenc is a Philadelphia-based composer and pedal steel guitarist. For over a decade, he released music as Post Moves, and now performs solo under his own name. His latest record, Language At An Angle, is out January 30, 2026, via Lobby Art Editions.

Sam Wenc

Role Models: Susan Alcorn Helped Sam Wenc Stay Curious

Will Epstein is a singer-songwriter based in Woodstock, NY. His latest record, Yeah, mostly, is out now on Fat Possum.
(Photo Credit: Linnéa Gad)

Will Epstein

Will Epstein and Maggie Millner Want to Defamiliarize the Mundane

Daguerreotypes is a worker in song. Daguerreotypes has written 112 songs so far. With his debut double album, This Is My Way to Tell You That Everything Is Real and Happening Right Now, out now, Daguerreotypes dares you, the reader of this sentence, to experience the astonishing new folk sounds of Daguerreotypes.

Daguerreotypes

Zola Jesus and Devon Welsh Will Die on the Daguerreotypes Hill

As lead vocalist of the Bush Tetras, a seminal post-punk band in New York  City, Cynthia Sley produced some of the most distinctive aspects of the Tetras sounds. Sley&#8217;s vocals were half spoken, half sung and in songs like &#8220;Too Many Creeps&#8221; and &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Be Funky&#8221; she repeated simple phrases creating a hypnotic monotony similar to Pat Place&#8217;s guitar rhythms. &#8220;Too Many Creeps&#8221; was a mainstay of the infamous early &#8217;80s New York &#8220;No Wave&#8221; club scene.

Cynthia Sley

Bush Tetras and ESG Have a Blast From the Past

Will Brooks, aka MC dälek, is a rapper and producer, and one-third of the Newark-based experimental hip-hop group dälek. His latest record, made in collaboration with This Heat’s Charles Hayward, HAYWARDxDÄLEK, is out now.

MC dälek

MC dälek and Charles Hayward (This Heat) Obey the Sound

Julianna Barwick is a composer, vocalist, and producer whose music has been featured in publications including The New York Times, NPR, Pitchfork (Best New Music), Loud &amp; Quiet, and The Guardian. She has performed with artists including Yoko Ono, The Flaming Lips, and Phillip Glass. Her latest record, made in collaboration with Mary Lattimore, Tragic Magic, is out now.

Julianna Barwick

Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore’s New Record Is Timeless

Nicholas Galanin is one of the most vital voices in contemporary art. Born in Sheet’ka (Sitka, Alaska), Galanin is Tlingit and Unangax̂; he creates from his perspective as an Indigenous man. His work calls for an accounting of the damages done to land and life by unfettered capitalism while envisioning and advocating alternate possibilities. 
His debut as Ya Tseen (“be alive,” and a reference to his Tlingit name Yeil Ya Tseen) is Indian Yard, his first album for Sub Pop. Rich with emotional range and sharp awareness, Indian Yard explores love, desire, frustration, pain, revolution, and connection through the magnetic expressions of an Indigenous mind. 
This is not, by any means, Galanin’s first album. He has released a steady stream of records under a panoply of aliases, including Silver Jackson and Indian Agent. He has worked with the likes of Meshell Ndegeocello, Tanya Tagaq, and Samantha Crain. And for the better part of a decade, he’s also been part of the revolutionarily borderless art collective Black Constellation alongside Shabazz Palaces and THEESatisfaction.
(Photo Credit: Merritt Johnson)

Ya Tseen

Sterlin Harjo Inspired the New Ya Tseen Record

North Carolina-born and LA-raised Jordan Patterson is a 23-year-old singer-songwriter/producer creating catharsis from a folk and alternative landscape. Blunt, raw, and decisive, Patterson is creating a world within her self-recorded and produced songs. Her connection to the unfinished represents no better reflection of who she is as an artist, “in progress.” Her latest record, The Hermit, is out now on Ozella’s Child.

Jordan Patterson

Jordan Patterson and Folk Bitch Trio Are Townies

Jane Inc is the project of Carlyn Bezic (US Girls). Her record A RUPTURE A CANYON A BIRTH is out now on Telephone Explosion.

Jane Inc.

Best of 2025: Jane Inc Was Really Into Late Era Joni Mitchell Last Year

Tony Njoku is a London-based composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Tony’s latest record, ALL OUR KNIVES ARE ALWAYS SHARP, is out now.