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DJ Premier Talks with Prince Paul for the Talkhouse Music Podcast

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Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer Duff McKagan is a former member of the Fastbacks, The Fartz, 10 Minute Warning and Guns &#8216;n&#8217; Roses.  He plays bass in Velvet Revolver and founded Meridian Rock, a wealth management firm for musicians.

Duff McKagan

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Duff McKagan (Guns N’ Roses) Talks with Joe Keithley (D.O.A.) on the Talkhouse Podcast

Martin Brugger is a producer based in Munich. He plays in Fazer and is the co-founder of Squama Recordings. His latest record The Shell is out June 26, 2026.

Martin Brugger

Damian Dalla Torre is an Italian-born saxophonist, composer, and producer based in Leipzig, Germany. His latest record, People Pleaser, is out June 12, 2026. 
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Damian Dalla Torre

Martin Brugger and Damian Dalla Torre Learn to Live With the Mistakes

Ian O’Neil is a musician and artist who plays with Deer Tick, Happiness, and by himself. He lives in Providence, RI. (Photo Credit: Shoji Van Kuzumi)

Ian O’Neil

Deer Tick Like the Hustle

Formed in Omaha in the early 2000s by Stephen Pedersen following his departure from Cursive, Criteria has always lived in the space between melody and weight, control and collapse, moving only when there was something real enough to justify it. Criteria’s latest record SEIZE! reflects a period of profound personal and professional change: relationships dissolving, chapters closing, and attention turning toward the fragile beauty of the present. It’s out now on Spartan Records. 
(Photo Credit: Audrey Hertel)

Stephen Pedersen

Mood Board: Criteria’s SEIZE!

John Cameron Mitchell’s 2006 film <a href="https://shortbus.oscilloscope.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shortbus</a>, which he wrote and directed, is being re-released in theaters by Oscilloscope from January 26. He co-created and starred in the stage/film musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, for which he won Best Director at the 2001 Sundance Festival, four Tony Awards, and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor. He also directed the films Rabbit Hole (2010), featuring an Oscar-nominated performance by Nicole Kidman, and How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017). He appears on TV in Hulu’s Shrill and in 2022 will be seen in Netflix’s Sandman and in the title role of Peacock Channel’s Joe Exotic adapted series. His musical podcast series Anthem: Homunculus starring Glenn Close, Patti Lupone, and Cynthia Erivo, was just rereleased as a free podcast. In 2020, he put out the collaborative album New American Dream and his ongoing The Origin of Love World Tour resumed in December 2021. (Photo by Matthew Placek.)

John Cameron Mitchell

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Sook-Yin Lee Talks with John Cameron Mitchell on the Talkhouse Podcast

Jack Whitescarver is a singer-songwriter who fronts the New York-based band Amiture Music. Amiture Music’s self-titled record is out now on Dots Per Inch.
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Jack Whitescarver

Anna Thérèse Witenberg is a dancer and choreographer based in New York.
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Anna Thérèse Witenberg

Anna Thérèse Witenberg and Jack Whitescarver Talk the Physicality of Music

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Maria Bakalova is now starring in the new sci-fi drama O Horizon, opposite David Strathairn, Adam Pally, Maggie Grace and Paulina Porizkova. She is a Bulgarian actress who, straight out of drama school, was cast by Sacha Baron Cohen to play Borat’s daughter of in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020), for which she won a Critics&#8217; Choice Movie Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, an Actor Award, and a Golden Globe Award. Born and raised in Burgas, Bakalova began her career in Bulgarian cinema while attending the National Academy for Theater and Film Arts, mostly portrayed dramatic roles in films such as Transgression, The Father, Last Call and Women Do Cry.

Maria Bakalova

Film

Three Great Things: Maria Bakalova

Finding The Authenticity & Tone Of Margo’s Got Money Troubles w/ Eva Anderson

Jena Malone: Set Your Sorrows Down (Polyamory Science with Amy Moors)

Writer, director and producer Kerry Mondragon’s latest film, the pscyhedelic jungle thriller <a href="https://dekanalog.com/film/wetiko-detail" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wetiko</a>, is out now on digital. Best known for his films, Tyger Tyger (2020) and Meet Me at a Funeral (2015), Mondragon was born and raised in the ancient haunts of the Sonoran barrios and borderlands of the Mexican desert, a landscape populated by wild poets, peyote roadmen, and saintly Mexican grandmothers. He wrote poetry at an early age and corresponded with Allen Ginsberg at age 10, until Ginsberg&#8217;s death. After his biological father left, he was raised by his mother and step-father (turned-father,) they relocated to Marin County, California where he was blasted by the culture shock of a very different world. He discovered the dark shadow side of the wealthy county – a youth scene of bullying, trauma, drugs, alcohol – and was disgusted by the spiritual pretense of their culture. Bullied out of middle school and unable to adjust to high school, he lived the life of the youth underworld of one of the nation’s wealthiest towns. Throughout, he honed his artistic skills, he dropped out of college, worked at an ad agency and used that money to jump onto a crowd-funded Spike Lee feature film where he assisted the legendary director in prep and principal photography. This served as his film school. Upon returning to California and after significant life experiences, he resolved to make something pure, honest, and true – something stripped of all Hollywood illusions that was recognizable to those still lost in the pain of addiction – something to give hope to the hopeless. (Photo by Federico La Tona © Uninflected Pictures.)
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Kerry Mondragon

Murder, Fever Dreams and Spiritual Reckoning: Behind the Scenes of Wetiko

DJ Premier is a producer and DJ, and was half of the hip hop duo Gang Starr. He is now half of the hip hop duo PRhyme, together with Royce Da 5&#8217;9&#8243;.
Prince Paul is a producer, DJ and musician perhaps best known for his work on De La Soul’s 1989 seminal debut album 3 Feet High and Rising. Most recently, he, along with Ladybug Mecca, Don Newkirk and Rodrigo Brandão, formed Brookzill, whose debut album, Throwback to the Future, is out now.

DJ Premier and Prince Paul

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Channy Leaneagh is the singer and co-songwriter in Minneapolis-based band <a href="http://www.thisispolica.com/" target="_blank">Poliça</a>. You can follow them on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/thisispolica" target="_blank">here</a> and Facebook <a href="facebook.com/thisispolica" target="_blank">here</a>.

Channy Leaneagh

Haley Fohr (b. Dec 16 1988) is a vocalist, composer, and singer-songwriter. Her musical endeavors focus around our human condition, and her career as Circuit des Yeux has grown into one of America’s most successful efforts to connect the personal to the universal. She is most distinctly identified by her 4-octave voice and unique style of 12-string guitar.