Three Great Things is Talkhouse’s series in which artists tell us about three things they absolutely love. To mark the current release in theaters of Mike Mills’ new feature, C’mon C’mon, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gaby Hoffman and Woody Norman, the acclaimed writer-director shared some of the things that he loves most in life. — N.D.Federico […]
Talkhouse is a Webby-award-winning first-person media company that’s been widely covered in Fast Company, Forbes, The New York Times, Variety, and more. Its podcast network comprises shows like the Talkhouse Podcast, Aquarium Drunkard’s Transmissions, Emil Amos’s Drifter’s Sympathy, and Open Mike Eagle’s Stony Island Audio Group. Talkhouse is built on a foundation of creators—musicians, filmmakers, […]
If I had to liken my friend Nick Levine’s music as Jodi to a singular kind of human moment, it’d be this: occasionally, when I am least expecting it, someone that doesn’t know me very well will surprise me by seeing through the outer shell I’ve trusted to sufficiently hide my vulnerabilities. They’ll cock their […]
Hiperson’s Instagram looks like a fantasy. Scroll through and you’ll see eager faces singing, shouting, and sweating together in the ecstatic pleasure of live music. Though the return of shows is, thankfully, inching ever closer here in the US, these exhilarating images still seem like relics from a far-off past. For Hiperson, who emerged from […]
OHMME — aka Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart — and I talk about meeting each other for the first time, tour memories, singing and playing together as women, how we inspire each other, our future touring, St. Vincent, Fiona Apple and other inspos, and sauerkraut. Honestly, I love it because we don’t really talk about […]
In 1977, two spacecrafts left Earth. Their mission was a tour of the outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and eventually interstellar space. These, of course, were the two Voyager spacecrafts. Inside the spacecraft are the infamous “golden records,” a time capsule containing Earth’s natural sounds, human greetings in myriad languages, and music. To celebrate […]
The season might be nearing its end, but we still have some summer magic left in this weekend playlist. Released back in June, Waves — the debut album from Sofia Bolt — captures a breezy summertime rock feeling. The lead single, “Get Out of My Head,” evokes a sound calling back to Serge Gainsbourg, so it […]
Dawnbreaker is the first album Alexandra Sauser-Monnig — also of Mountain Man — has released under the name Daughter of Swords. To celebrate its release (it’s out today via Nonesuch Records) Sauser-Monnig broke the album down for us track-by-track. — Annie Fell, Talkhouse Associate Editor“Fellows” The guitar line of “Fellows” materialized while I was living in a […]
In place of a more traditional year-end best-of list, Talkhouse has asked some of our favorite artists to choose their favorite album of 2018 and tell us all about it. —The Talkhouse TeamThere were a lot of exciting records this year. I loved the Feist record, I love Neko Case’s record, I love Mitski, Childish […]
As a Japanese woman who spent her formative years and adult life navigating the white patriarchal society of the Netherlands and the U.K., I learned early on how not to make people feel uncomfortable with my “otherness,” even when – especially when – they are the ones who make me feel the most uncomfortable. Making […]
