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Drive-By Truckers have always been outspoken, telling a distinctly American story via craft, character and concept, all backed by sonic ambition and social conscience. Having reached their 20th anniversary this year, singer/songwriter/guitarists Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood have long held a progressive fire in their belly but with 2016&#8217;s AMERICAN BAND, they have made the most explicitly political album in their extraordinary canon.

Patterson Hood

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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Patterson Hood (Drive-By Truckers) Talks with Buffalo Nichols on the Talkhouse Podcast

Charlotte Cornfield is a Toronto-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Her latest album, Highs in the Minuses, is out October 29, 2021 via Polyvinyl and Double Double Whammy.
(Photo Credit: Angela Lewis)

Charlotte Cornfield

Music

Amy Millan (Stars) and Charlotte Cornfield Have Deep Toronto Roots

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

Deerhoof’s New Record is the Antidote For All Our Troubles

Ian Brennan is a Grammy-winning producer (Tinariwen) who has produced three other Grammy-nominated albums and published eight books while all the while teaching violence prevention around the world since 1993 at places like UC Berkeley, the Betty Ford Center, and the National Accademia of Science (Rome). His latest book is Missing Music: voices from where the dirt roads end.

Ian Brennan

Ian Brennan and Corin Tucker Make Sense of Themselves Through Music

Meg Duffy grew up in a small town in Upstate New York and they cut their teeth as a session guitarist and touring member of Kevin Morby’s band. The Hand Habits project emerged after Meg moved to Los Angeles; it started as a private songwriting outlet but soon evolved into a fully-fledged band with Meg at the helm.
Hand Habits has released two albums, Wildly Idle (2017) and placeholder (2019). With producer Joel Ford, they&#8217;ve released a self-titled album as the duo yes/and, via Driftless Recordings.

Meg Duffy

Worst Song I Ever Wrote: The Time Hand Habits Tried to Rewrite “American Pie”

French multidisciplinary artist Nina Savary was born into the world of entertainment, taking to performing like a duck out of water, brought up backstage, behind the scenes of theaters across Europe in the &#8217;70s. Making her debut to the stage at the mere age of four years old at la Scala in Milan, touring with her parents&#8217; explosive and free theatre company Grand Magic Circus. Now an adult, Nina is a renowned performer; a singer, dancer and actress, she has been involved in many artistic projects such as musicals, opera as well as collaborating with musicians such as Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier and Julien Gasc, Eddy Crampes, Marker Starling, and her partner Astrobal, aka Emmanuel Mario, a producer, arranger and composer with whom she formed the band Institut and the project Vivre! in 2020, along with Arnaud Dumatin.
(Photo Credit: Louis Decamp)

Nina Savary

Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab) and Nina Savary Find Power in Gentleness

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<div>Stemming from various bands that guitarist/vocalist Steven Instasi and bassist Ben Semeta had been in since their teenage years, Black Beach formed in 2012 in their hometown of Middleboro, MA when the two joined with childhood friend and drummer Ryan Nicholson. Originally starting as a hardcore band, the trio decided to focus on writing a style of music that encompassed all of their interests rather than existing in the confines of any one particular genre. What resulted was a sound that took inspiration from noise rock, post-punk, proto-punk, doom, free jazz, and art rock. Eventually relocating to Boston where the band found kindred spirits in the local music scene, Black Beach found a home in the various basements and music venues in the city and began playing with international touring acts such as Thee Oh Sees, Protomartyr, and Acid King. With two EPS, a split with friends Nice Guys and 2016’s LP Shallow Creatures under their belt, Black Beach continues to evolve their genre bending version of rock music. </div>
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Black Beach

Hear First: Black Beach’s Giallo

Tim Burgess (The Charlatans) Talks with Joan Wasser (Joan as Police Woman) on the Talkhouse Podcast

John Colpitts, aka Kid Millions is a drummer, composer, drum teacher and writer based in Queens, NY. He is best known for his work in the experimental rock band Oneida and his percussion group Man Forever. His latest album with Oneida, <a href="https://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/products/expensive-air" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Expensive Air</a>, is out now on Joyful Noise.

John Colpitts

What Count Me In Gets Wrong About the History of Drumming

Lily Konigsberg has been writing songs all her life. Born and raised in Brooklyn, she started playing solo sets around NYC clubs as a teenage, before linking up with Bard classmates Nina Ryser and Ani Ivry-Block to form Palberta. She also performs with Nate Amos as My Idea, and is releasing her latest full-length solo album Lily We Need To Talk Now via Wharf Cat October 2021.

Lily Konigsberg

Guerilla Toss and My Idea Have Been Hard at Work

Tara Key, born in Louisville and transplanted to New York City, is the guitarist and singer for the band Antietam. She is currently working on a book, Friends Call, Strangers Cordially Invited, the tale of her great-grand aunt Fannie Evans Uhl, a Gilded Age Louisville madam, and what happens when good girls go kind of bad.

Tara L. Key

Something In the Water

Julia Shapiro lives in Seattle and performs in the bands Chastity Belt, Childbirth and Who Is She. Chastity Belt put out their third record in June 2017 called I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone on the label Hardly Art. Some of her other interests include watching reality TV, taking long walks, petting dogs, and gossiping.

Julia Shapiro

Chastity Belt’s energy is like a circuit, circling around the silly and the sincere. Tongue-in-cheek shit-shooting and existential rumination feed into each other infinitely.
Theirs is a long-term relationship, and that loop sustains them. That’s a creative thesis in and of itself, but isn’t that also just the mark of a true-blue friendship?
The band talks a lot about intention these days — how to be more present with each other. The four piece — Julia Shapiro (vocals, guitar, drums), Lydia Lund (vocals, guitar), Gretchen Grimm (drums, vocals, guitar) and Annie Truscott (bass) — is nine years deep in this, after all. It seems now, more than ever, that circuit is a movement of intentionality, one that creates a space inside which they can be themselves, among themselves. It’s a space where the euphoria of making music with your best friends is protected from the outside world’s churning expectations. It’s a kind of safe zone for the band to occupy as their best selves: a group of friends who love each other.
Their fourth record, Chastity Belt, comes out of that safe space. With the luxury of spending several weeks in the studio with Jay Som’s Melina Duterte, Chastity Belt was able to experiment. The result is their most sonically developed and nuanced record yet; one that’s not only a product of, but a series of reflections on what it means to take what you need and to understand yourself better.