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Gareth David is lyricist and singer in the band Los Campesinos! He was nominated for Sexiest Vegetarian at the 2009 PETA Awards 2009 and Hottest Male at the 2012 NME awards. He didn’t win either. The most recent Los Campesinos! album NO BLUES is out now via Wichita Recordings.

Gareth David

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Gareth David (Los Campesinos!) Talks James Blunt’s Moon Landing

Annie Clark&nbsp;performs and records as&nbsp;St. Vincent.

Annie Clark

Annie Clark (St. Vincent) Talks Arcade Fire’s Reflektor

Devon Welsh&nbsp;writes songs and lyrics in&nbsp;Majical Cloudz. His opinions are neither to be taken seriously nor to be trusted.

Devon Welsh

Devon Welsh (Majical Cloudz) Talks Sky Ferreira’s Night Time, My Time

Eddie Argos is a lo-fi punk rock motherfucker, the singer in Art Brut, and a writer and painter living in Berlin. He is quite tall.

Eddie Argos

Eddie Argos (Art Brut) Talks Future of the Left’s How to Stop Your Brain in an Accident

Musician, writer, and record producer Lenny Kaye has been a guitarist for poet-rocker Patti Smith since her band&#8217;s inception more than 40 years ago. He has worked in the studio with such artists as Suzanne Vega, Jim Carroll, Soul Asylum, Kristen Hersh, and Allen Ginsberg, as well as his own solo muse. His seminal anthology of &#8217;60s garage-rock, Nuggets, has long been regarded as defining a genre. You can visit him online <a href="http://lennykaye.com/">here</a>.

Lenny Kaye

Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group) Talks the Melvins’ Tres Cabrones

Shara Nova is a classically trained vocalist and self-taught multi-instrumentalist who records dazzling shapeshifting music as My Brightest Diamond. Over the course of five groundbreaking albums, including her most recent LP A Million And One, she has resisted the conventions of genre, blending elements of rock, art pop and chamber music into a sound totally her own. During her career, Nova has also collaborated and played with a long list of talented artists and filmmakers including but not limited to Sufjan Stevens, Laurie Anderson, The Decemberists, David Byrne &amp; Fatboy Slim, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and Matthew Barney. Last fall she was announced as one of the four Carolina Performing Arts Creative Future Fellows and is a Kresge Fellow, Knights Grant recipient and a United States Artists fellow. She has composed works for yMusic, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Young New Yorkers’ Chorus, Brooklyn Rider, Nadia Sirota, and Roomful of Teeth and performed at Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Kennedy Center.

Shara Nova

Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) Talks Katy Perry’s Prism

Rennie Sparks is the lyricist as well as banjo and bass player for the Handsome Family. More info can be found <a href="http://www.handsomefamily.com/">here</a>. You can follow them on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/handsomefamily">here</a>.

Rennie Sparks

Rennie Sparks (the Handsome Family) Talks Barry McCormack’s Cut Throat Lane

Missy Mazzoli is a composer and a founding member of the band Victoire.  Recent projects include works for the Kronos Quartet and the Detroit Symphony, and operas about the life of Isabelle Eberhardt (Song from the Uproar) and Lot&#8217;s wife (SALT). She lives in Brooklyn.  You can visit her on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/missymazzoli">here</a>  or visit Victoire <a href="http://www.victoiremusic.com/">here</a>.

Missy Mazzoli

Missy Mazzoli (Victoire) Talks Laurel Halo’s Chance of Rain

1. singer of Richmond, VA -based heavy metal four-time Grammy losers lamb of god. 2. 42-year-old skateboarding, fly fishing, and bullwhipping enthusiast.   3. amateur photographer currently writing his first photo-essay book.  4. author of currently untitled memoir to be published by Da Capo/Perseus (U.S.)  and Random House (everywhere else), spring 2014. 5. proud husband, son, grandson, and brother.   6. fairly righteous dude.

Randy Blythe

Randy Blythe (Lamb of God) Talks Pusha T’s My Name is My Name

Jacob Bannon (Converge, Wear Your Wounds, etc.) is an artist and musician. He is the founder and co-owner of the Deathwish record label and also runs Diamonds and Rust, a retail store, alongside his wife. You can visit Jacob <a href="http://www.jacobbannon.com/">here</a>, Deathwish <a href="http://www.deathwishinc.com/">here</a>, Diamonds and Rust <a href="http://www.diamondsandrustshop.com/">here</a> and follow Converge <a href="https://twitter.com/Convergecult">here</a>.

Jacob Bannon

Jacob Bannon (Converge, Wear Your Wounds) Talks Pearl Jam’s Lightning Bolt

Talkhouse Contributing Writer Matthew Shipp is a pianist and composer. You can visit his website <a href="http://www.matthewshipp.com/">here</a>.

Matthew Shipp

Matthew Shipp Talks Chick Corea’s The Vigil

Jake Shears sings for Scissor Sisters and lives in Los Angeles with his husbro and his border terrier, Toby. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/jakeshears">here</a> and Scissor Sisters on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/scissorsisters">here</a>.

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