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Andrew Savage lives in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn with his cat Frida.  He operates the record label Dull Tools and is a member of Parquet Courts.

Andrew Savage

Music

Andrew Savage (Parquet Courts) Talks Cheveu’s Bum

Corey Taylor is the Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter for the heavy metal band Slipknot, as well as the hard rock outfit Stone Sour and various solo collaborations. In addition to music, he is the New York Times and London Times best-selling author of Seven Deadly Sins: Settling The Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven; Or How I Made Peace with the Paranormal and Stigmatized Zealots and Cynics in the Process. He&#8217;s also written House of Gold and Bones, a comic book mini-series adapted from the short story and Stone Sour double-concept album of the same name. He keeps his stuff in many houses and hotel rooms around the world with his wife and children, much to their chagrin.

Corey Taylor

Corey Taylor (Slipknot, Stone Sour) Talks the Birds of Satan’s the Birds of Satan

James McNew is a member of Yo La Tengo. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/dumpland">here</a>.

James McNew

James McNew (Yo La Tengo) Amps for Christ’s Canyons Cars and Crows

Laura Pleasants is the guitarist and vocalist for the Savannah-based heavy rock band Kylesa.  When she&#8217;s not touring or playing music, she spends her time taking photos.  You can follow her on <a href="http://web.stagram.com/n/maidenmist/">Instagram</a> and <a href="http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/maidenmist">Tumblr</a>.

Laura Pleasants

Laura Pleasants (Kylesa) Talks Off!’s Wasted Years

Anika is a British and German singer-songwriter and political journalist.

Anika

Anika Talks Shonen Knife’s Overdrive

Andy McCluskey is the singer-bassist in the pioneering British electronic pop group <a href="http://www.omd.uk.com/" target="_blank">Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark</a>, also known as OMD. Their song “Enola Gay” is a synth-pop classic, and “If You Leave,” from the Pretty in Pink soundtrack, hit #4 in the U.S. in 1986. Their latest album is English Electric. McCluskey also co-wrote songs for Atomic Kitten, who scored a #1 UK hit in 2001 with “Whole Again.” You can follow OMD on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/OfficialOMD" target="_blank">here</a> and on Facebook<a href="https://www.facebook.com/omdofficial" target="_blank">here</a>.

Andy McCluskey

Andy McCluskey (OMD) Talks Future Islands’ Singles

Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer Steve Nieve has been Elvis Costello&#8217;s keyboardist since the first note of the Attractions. Nieve has recorded several acclaimed solo albums, including Welcome to the Voice, the classical opera he co-wrote with Muriel Téodori, released on Deutsche Grammophon in 2007. &#8220;ToGetHer&#8221; — a song cycle — continues the spirit of collaboration and brings together for the first time Sting, Vanessa Paradis, Elvis Costello, Laurie Anderson, Robert Wyatt, Muriel Téodori, Tall Ulyss, Ron Sexsmith, Harper Simon, Joe Sumner, Cali, Alain Chamfort. Available via 429 Records. You can find him on Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SteveNieveOfficial" target="_blank">here</a>, Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/stevenieve" target="_blank">here</a> and his website <a href="http://www.stevenieve.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.  Photo credit: Muriel Téodori

Steve Nieve

Steve Nieve (Elvis Costello and the Attractions) Talks Liam Finn’s The Nihilist

Roger Clark Miller is the singer-guitarist of the legendary Mission of Burma and also plays in Alloy Orchestra, which specializes in live soundtracks to classic silent films.  His composition Scream, Gilgamesh, Scream premiers on September 22nd at the New England Conservatory.  Miller is also a noted soundtrack composer. His website is <a href="http://rogerclarkmiller.com/">here</a>.

Roger C. Miller

Roger C. Miller (Mission of Burma) Talks the Bad Plus’ The Rite of Spring

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

Luke Temple (Here We Go Magic) Talks Mac DeMarco’s Salad Days

Split Single frontman Jason Narducy is a universally beloved lifer, having first appeared on the scene at age 11 in the ‘80s Chicago punk band Verböten. He fronted Epic/Sony alt-rockers Verbow during the ‘90s alt-rock bubble, then spent nearly a decade as the bassist and backup vocalist for folks like Bob Mould, Robert Pollard, Telekinesis and Superchunk. Split Single’s <a href="http://www.shopbenchmark.com/splitsingle/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Metal Frames</a> was released in 2016.

Jason Narducy

Jason Narducy (Split Single, Superchunk, Bob Mould Band) Talks Steel Panther’s All You Can Eat

Talkhouse Contributing Writer Sean Yeaton plays in Parquet Courts. He lives in Brooklyn. He&#8217;s an artist, writer. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/Yeatons">here</a>.

Sean Yeaton

Sean Yeaton (Parquet Courts) Talks Woo’s When the Past Arrives

Brendan Kelly plays in the Lawrence Arms, the Falcon and the Wandering Birds. He has trouble constructing short bios, but thankfully he has <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Kelly_(musician)" target="_blank">a Wikipedia page</a> full of mundane details in the unlikely event that someone would be interested in learning more about him. Also, he&#8217;s on <a href="http://twitter.com/badsandwich" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and writes a semi-readable blog at <a href="http://badsandwichchronicles.net/" target="_blank">badsandwichchronicles.net</a>.

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