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Nick Sanborn is half of the musical duo Sylvan Esso, and he also makes solo electronic music under the name Made Of Oak.

Nick Sanborn

Music

Best of 2018: Nick Sanborn (Sylvan Esso) Can’t Get Enough of Low’s Double Negative

Shamir is Shamir and remains Shamir through and through, no matter what the universe puts him through. You may know the singularly named artist (think—Madonna or Cher) from his 2015 debut hit record Rachet, beloved by NPR listeners and club kids alike. After quickly rising to underground fame with his Northtown EP in 2014, the DIY pop star made a sonic splash with Rachet’s lead single “On The Regular,” a poppy banger that had extensive commercial usage. But how to follow all that up? Shamir, who came from the dusty dunes of Las Vegas, to Brooklyn’s Silent Barn, to the Philly indie scene (and all over the world in between), wanted to go back to what had inspired him from the beginning. Outsider music, country &amp; punk. Raw and vulnerable tunes, stripped down to their emotional core. 2017’s Revelations explored a new avenue of guitar driven hooky indie rock and was widely critically praised in the US and overseas.
Shamir’s most recent releases, the brilliant Room 7” on Father/Daughter, and his self-released limited edition album, Resolution, are pinnacles in the catalog of the increasingly fascinating artist’s career. Room and its b-side Caballero celebrate Shamir’s love of country music, while Resolution is a deeply introspective look into the fabric of society and the artists’ own mind.  With these two releases he has refined his craft exponentially and done so in less than six months from the release of Revelations.

Shamir Bailey

Best of 2018: Shamir’s Favorite Album of 2018 is Skating Polly’s The Make It All Show

<div>After moving to Los Angeles, Hawaii native Zac Carper co-founded FIDLAR as a band and a lifestyle. In addition to his singing and guitar duties with the group, he is also an accomplished producer (The Frights, SWMRS, Dune Rats &#8211; #1 album in Australia) and songwriter. Zac&#8217;s passions include surfing, macrame and scrubs.</div>
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<div>(Photo Credit: David Black)</div>

Zac Carper

Best of 2018: Zac Carper (FIDLAR) Got Really Into SoundCloud Rap This Year

Amelia Meath writes songs and sings in Sylvan Esso and Mountain Man. When she is not on tour she is usually playing video games while talking about feelings with all the boys she lives with in Durham, North Carolina. You can follow her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/arandallm" target="_blank">here</a>.

Amelia Meath

Best of 2018: Amelia Meath (Sylvan Esso) Loves Ben Howard’s Heartfelt Noonday Dream

Boots Riley is the writer-director of Sorry to Bother You, one of the most acclaimed films of 2018. Growing up in Oakland, he studied film at San Francisco State University before dropping out in favor of a major label recording deal. He put in two decades as leader of The Coup, a radical funk/punk/hip-hop band, where he penned six albums to widespread critical acclaim, receiving “Pop Album of The Year” by The Washington Post and the Associated Press, and “Hip Hop Album of The Year” by Rolling Stone. His book of lyrics and anecdotes Tell Homeland Security We Are the Bomb is out now on Haymarket Press. The Coup&#8217;s seventh, as-yet-unreleased album, The Sun Exploding, is the soundtrack to Sorry to Bother You. The New York Post says, &#8220;Boots Riley ranks as some kind of genius.&#8221; Jeff Chang said, “he is one of the most influential poets and thinkers of this generation.” Stereogum says, &#8220;Boots Riley is a national treasure.&#8221; While Slavoj Zizek says “The very existence of a person like Boots Riley is a miracle.” It is his hope to be a part of creating a new movement in film.

Boots Riley

Film

Best of 2018: Boots Riley Talks Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy

Hamilton Leithauser lives with his wife and two baby girls in New York City. He was the singer for rock band the Walkmen from 2000-2014. He recently got social on the internet and now has<a href="https://twitter.com/HLeithauser" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Twitter</a>, <a href="http://facebook.com/jameshamiltonleithauser" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a> and a <a href="http://www.hamiltonleithauser.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>.

Hamilton Leithauser

Best of 2018: Hamilton Leithauser on His Friend Richard Swift’s Final Album The Hex

Bob Mould is an American singer-songwriter, DJ, producer, and the author of an autobigraphy, <a href="http://http//www.amazon.com/See-Little-Light-Trail-Melody/dp/B009WHP5PW/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1366903168&amp;sr=1-1">See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody</a> (Little, Brown, 2011). He has slept on more floors than he can remember. He has flown in Lear jets producing live TV pro wrestling. He has performed in halls across the world: Carnegie, Royal Albert, Disney, and dozens of VFW. Mould is currently living vehicle-free in San Francisco.

Bob Mould

Best of 2018: Bob Mould’s Favorite Album of 2018 is Interpol’s Marauder

Jason Reitman made his feature film debut with the 2006 Sundance hit Thank You for Smoking, and notably earned Academy Award nominations for directing Juno and Up in the Air. His other films include Young Adult, Labor Day and Men, Women and Children. He recently executive produced the Academy Award-winning film Whiplash and produces the Hulu comedy series Casual. He next will direct for Dreamworks the animated feature film Beekle, about an imaginary character who sets off on a journey to find a friend.

Jason Reitman

Best of 2018: Jason Reitman Talks Hannah Fidell’s The Long Dumb Road and Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War

Lola Kirke is no stranger to shape-shifting—as an actress with a steadily ascending star, she’s had major roles in David Fincher’s Gone Girl and Noah Baumbach’s Mistress America, as well as the Golden Globe-winning Amazon show Mozart in the Jungle. While less in the fore, her passion for music has stayed constant, with her guitar following her from dressing room to dressing room.
Born to a musical family, Lola embarked on her own musical journey with her four-track EP released in 2016. Tracked live to tape in East Los Angeles and produced by frequent collaborator Wyndham Garnett (Elvis Perkins in Dearland, WYNDHAM) her debut LP Heart Head West, asserts her as part of the artistic tradition she holds so dear: delivering her own heart, laid bare for someone else to hear as theirs.

Lola Kirke

Best of 2018: Lola Kirke’s Favorite Album of 2018 is Cornelia Murr’s Lake Tear of the Clouds

As punk rock proliferated radio airwaves, Dashboard Confessional cemented their role at the vanguard of an entire music scene. Facing familiar aches with tenderness and precision, singer/songwriter Chris Carrabba rocketed the band into mainstream focus, solidifying their place as one of the biggest alternative bands of the 2000s. Crooked Shadows—the return of Dashboard Confessional and the band’s first new album in over eight years —explores Carrabba’s reclamation of those simple yet extraordinary moments in life that long stood as the unsung heroes of his songwriting, as he reflects on experiences of his own and those closest to him. The result is a deeply cathartic body of work that traverses the complications and vulnerabilities of relationships while scrutinizing the possibility of self-improvement.
(Photo Credit: David Bean)

Chris Carrabba

Best of 2018: Chris Carrabba’s Favorite Album of 2018 is J Mascis’ Elastic Days

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