In a wide-ranging conversation, these two acclaimed rockers get silly — and then they get deep.

Kim Deal (the Breeders, the Amps, Pixies) Talks with Courtney Barnett for The Talkhouse Music Podcast

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The Album Leaf has been making its mark as a soft-spoken innovator steadily and surely since 1999. It&#8217;s clear mastermind Jimmy LaValle is unafraid of thinking outside the box, both as an individual artist and within the larger scope of modern music.
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The Album Leaf

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The Album Leaf and Hundred Waters Take Turns

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Curls Ultra is an underground post groovy rock band and activist network based in America. The band is known for their exhilarating live shows which feature Boredoms-esque noise jams, Can-inspired kosmiche grooves, and tender ballads depicting the degradation of the American psyche. They have performed at Pitchfork Music Festival, toured across multiple countries and opened for or collaborated with Tame Impala, Ariel Pink, Frank Hurricane, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Wild Pink, Salesforce Child, and most recently Tim Heidecker’s Dekkar.
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Mood Board: Curls Ultra’s American Blood

CS Cleaners is an art punk band based in Brooklyn. Their latest record, What’s This?, is out June 26, 2026 on Wharf Cat.

CS Cleaners

Lathe of Heaven is a post-punk/new wave band from Brooklyn. Their latest record, Aurora, is out now on Sacred Bones. 
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Lathe of Heaven

CS Cleaners and Lathe of Heaven Talk Their Favorite, Most Busted Shows

Spencer Doran and Ryan Carlile are Visible Cloaks, an electronic duo based in Portland, OR. Their latest record Paradessence is out now on RVNG.
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Visible Cloaks

Kara-Lis Coverdale is a composer, musician, and producer based in Montreal. Her latest record Changes In Air is out now.

Kara-Lis Coverdale

Kara-Lis Coverdale and Visible Cloaks Wonder If Machines Have Souls

Evan Shornstein, aka Photay, is a composer, drummer, DJ, producer, and musical polymath based in LA.

Evan Shornstein

Booker Stardrum is a composer, drummer/percussionist, and producer based in Kingston, NY.

Booker Stardrum

Mood Board: Booker Stardrum and Evan Shornstein’s OOPS!

Matt Kivel is a songwriter and musician based in LA. His latest record, Escape from L.A., is out now.

Matt Kivel

Don Cento is an Austin-based guitarist and composer who leads the instrumental jazz/Americana trio Cento Threeo. The debut Cento Threeo record Halfway to Mellowtown is out June 19, 2026.

Don Cento

Don Cento and Matt Kivel Love Charles Grodin

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Podcast

964. – Jon Kelly

Nick Dawson talks with filmmakers, musicians and comedians whose work he loves, avoiding the mundane, predictable questions they&#8217;ve heard numerous times and instead asking substantive, thoughtful questions that get to the heart of who they are.

Nobody’s Ever Asked Me That

Nobody’s Ever Asked Me That: John Early

Jennifer Lopez Defends Her 4 Hottest Takes

Malin Barr is a Swedish director, writer, and actor working between Los Angeles and Stockholm. Her directorial debut, the short film <a href="https://www.malinbarr.com/work" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sauna Sickness</a>, premiered in competition at Sundance Film Festival 2026, where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. A darkly comedic psychological drama-thriller that explores self-doubt, manipulative love, and self-preservation, it follows a young woman whose romantic New Year’s getaway with her boyfriend in the mountains turns into an icy nightmare when they accidentally lock themselves out in the cold. As an actor, her recent credits include the Netflix series Bad Thoughts and the upcoming feature El Tigre, and her previous work includes Honeydew, starring opposite Sawyer Spielberg, as well as The Beta Test and A Wounded Fawn. Malin is bilingual in Swedish and English, and also speaks French.

Malin Barr

Film

Never as Alone as We Think We Are

799: The Dream of the $50 Dinner in New York Is Alive and Canada’s Wild Run at North America’s 50 Best with Luke Fortney

Kim Deal is a musician who played bass and sang for the Pixies before forming the Breeders and later the Amps.
Courtney Barnett is an Australian singer-songwriter. Her acclaimed new album, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, is available now. You can follow her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/courtneymelba" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.

Kim Deal and Courtney Barnett

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sweet93 embodies the hazy, drifting summers of the early ‘90s — a time when the lullabies of Slowdive and the sweetness of Mazzy Star ruled the alternative rock scene. Based in NYC, sweet93&#8217;s songs are the soundtrack to a waking dream.

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Louise Trehy and Mike Mason met in early ‘90s Camberwell, London. Both were deeply involved with the independent music scene of the time; Louise co-founded Setanta Records (home of The Divine Comedy, Edwyn Collins, and Into Paradise), and Mike traversed between bike courier, video director, and lighting designer for Spacemen 3, Slowdive, Spiritualized, Curve, and Chapterhouse. Prompted by Louise, they started writing songs together as Swallow.
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