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Lauren Mayberry is a member of CHVRCHES.  Their album The Bones of What You Believe is available now via Glassnote Records. You can follow them on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/CHVRCHES">here</a>.

Lauren Mayberry

Music

Lauren Mayberry (Chvrches) Talks Braids’ Flourish // Perish

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 the Vaccines’ Melody Calling

Rick Smith is a musician and artist best known for his drumming in the Florida hard rock band Torche. You can follow Torche on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/torcheband">here</a>.

Rick Smith

Rick Smith (Torche) Talks Medicine’s To the Happy Few

Zac Pennington is one half of the basically un-Google-able group <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thisispopularmusic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Popular Music</a>, and was formerly the creative director for the band Parenthetical Girls. He currently lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Popular Music&#8217;s new album, <a href="https://www.popularmusic.rip/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minor Works</a>, is out Friday, October 13 via Sanitarium Sound Services.

Zac Pennington

Zac Pennington (Parenthetical Girls) Talks Van Dyke Parks’ Songs Cycled

Kathy Valentine has been a working musician and songwriter for over 40 years, ever since she started her first band at age 16 in her hometown of Austin, Texas. After moving to Los Angeles, Kathy joined a band that would go on to make music history: The Go-Go’s. In this group, Kathy wrote or co-wrote some of the bands most renowned tunes, including the hits “Vacation” and “Head Over Heels.” She returned to Austin in 2006 and began finding new creative pursuits and career opportunities as a public speaker, spokesperson, producer, actor and author.
Signing with the esteemed University of Texas Press, her memoir All I Ever Wanted was released in Spring 2020. She put an academic degree plan on hold while finishing and promoting her book, and still finds time to play guitar with the Bluebonnets the all-female rock &amp; roll band she started in Austin.
Kathy’s greatest loves are her daughter, writing, music, and travel. Her hobbies are reading, computer graphics, digital recording, social media, politics, and natural based health protocols.

Kathy Valentine

Kathy Valentine (the Go-Go’s, the BlueBonnets) Talks Blue October’s Sway

As a member of the critically acclaimed, gold-selling hip-hop outfit Jurassic 5, Mark Potsic, aka DJ Nu-Mark, graces the group with precision production and cutting-edge stage routines. His most recent release as a solo artist is Broken Sunlight.

DJ Nu-Mark

DJ Nu-Mark (Jurassic 5) Talks Mayer Hawthorne’s Where Does This Door Go

Best known as the multi-instrumentalist in the indie-rock band the Decemberists, Chris Funk is a Grammy-nominated artist who has also found much success as a music producer, composer and studio musician.   Funk is also a founding member and co-writer in the acclaimed neo-gothic string band Black Prairie and has produced records for Red Fang, Langhorne Slim and Y La Bamba.

Chris Funk

Chris Funk (the Decemberists, Black Prairie) Talks Weekend’s Jinx

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 Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines

Talkhouse Contributing Writer Peter Holsapple has sung and played guitar in the dB&#8217;s, Holsapple &amp; Stamey, and Continental Drifters, as well as playing on albums and tours with R.E.M., Hootie and the Blowfish, Indigo Girls, and Nanci Griffith. He contributes to the New York Times&#8216; songwriter&#8217;s blog Measure for Measure, and has written pieces in several books on music.  Peter is a charter member of Radio Free Song Club, a magnificent new songwriters&#8217; collective. He considers himself among the luckiest people on earth.

Peter Holsapple

Peter Holsapple (the dB’s, Holsapple & Stamey, Continental Drifters) Talks the Civil Wars’ The Civil Wars

Talkhouse Contributing Writer Jonathan Meiburg&nbsp;is the singer for the band <a href="http://shearwatermusic.com/">Shearwater</a>, whose new album Jet Plane and Oxbow will be released early next year by Sub Pop Records.&nbsp;You can follow Shearwater on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/ShearwaterBand">here</a>.

Jonathan Meiburg

Jonathan Meiburg (Shearwater) Talks Fuck Buttons’ Slow Focus

People Get Ready is: Steven Reker (vox/gtr/keys), Jen Goma(vox/keys/gtr/bass), James Rickman (bass/gtr), and Booker Stardrum (drums). Their second album, Physiques, came out on Brassland in June. They have presented their music and performance work at the Watermill Center, the Kitchen, BAM, the Skirball Center, the Andy Warhol Museum, Glasslands Gallery, Death by Audio and others. Follow them <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pplgtrdy">here</a>.

People Get Ready

People Get Ready Talk Dawn of Midi’s Dysnomia

Talkhouse Contributing Writer Elizabeth Sankey is a writer and actress from London.  She is also 50% of the band Summer Camp. The  Summer Camp that wasn&#8217;t featured on Buffy. You can follow her on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/sankles" target="_blank">here</a>.

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