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Corey Taylor (Slipknot, Stone Sour) Talks Death Grips’ Government Plates

Most people don’t know this about me, but I like to listen to some pretty diverse shit when it comes to music. Being in two heavy bands, most fans...

November 26, 2013

Tim McIlrath (Rise Against) Talks Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones’s Foreverly

Sometime after Green Day released the wildly successful American Idiot in 2004, they graduated into what I call the "give no fucks" category...

November 25, 2013

Zachary Lipez (Freshkills, Publicist UK) Talks the Love Triangle’s Clever Clever

Is there a genre of music more beautiful and widely detested than pop-punk? Sentimental, sappy and often sexist, pop-punk is power-pop for...

November 22, 2013

Oliver Ackermann (A Place to Bury Strangers) Talks Nobunny’s Secret Songs: Reflections From the Ear Mirror

I love garage rock the same way I like all of my music: If there is an amazing song or the band is doing something special, then I'm in. In the...

November 21, 2013

Andrew W.K. Talks Omar Souleyman’s Wenu Wenu

All the music I have ever heard from Omar Souleyman delivers on the same fantastic promise: to hypnotize the listener with a non-stop, trance...

November 19, 2013

Carey Mercer (Frog Eyes) Talks Mick Turner’s Don’t Tell the Driver

Listening to someone gush about something is as dreadful as hearing someone else's dreams or listening to a parent drone on about the excellence of...

November 19, 2013

Mish Way (White Lung) Talks Lil Ugly Mane’s On Doing an Evil Deed Blues

When I Googled “Lil Ugly Mane Interview” the first thing that came up was a q&a that the Virginia producer and rapper did in a New York publication...

November 18, 2013

Phil Elverum (the Microphones, Mount Eerie) Talks Connan Mockasin’s Caramel

Taste is weird and writing about music is so nuts. It's kind of the worst. We are all disconnected bubbles of perception with only cloudy...

November 15, 2013

Roger C. Miller (Mission of Burma) Talks Rhys Chatham’s Harmonie du Soir

When I was a composition major at California Institute of the Arts in 1976, La Monte Young was a guest lecturer. Mr. Young's lecture consisted of...

November 14, 2013

Max Henry (Suuns) Talks Cate Le Bon’s Mug Museum

A few years ago at some music festival somewhere — backstage in that requisite section where press mingles with bored musicians — I overheard two...

November 12, 2013

John Gourley (Portugal. The Man) Talks Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP 2

In 1999 in Wasilla, Alaska, there wasn't a lot going on. I was dropping out of my senior year in high school, working shitty jobs and partying with...

November 11, 2013

Bobby Matador (Oneida) Talks Wooden Shjips’ Back to Land

A bunch of years ago, I borrowed an organ from Wooden Shjips when we played together in San Francisco. They couldn’t have been cooler about it...

November 11, 2013