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David Barker (Daylight) Talks Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language

The contrarian of the Nouvelle Vague at age 83 has made a dense, mostly non-narrative film about communication and relationships. In 3D, obviously.

October 29, 2014

Alanna McArdle (Joanna Gruesome) Talks Grouper’s Ruins

Joanna Gruesome’s singer on the “happy-sad” world of Grouper and the overwhelming power of quiet.

October 28, 2014

Sean McGuinness (Pissed Jeans, Rat Fist) Talks Pharmakon’s Bestial Burden

The horror of Pharmakon’s new album makes Pissed Jeans’ drummer want a night light.

October 16, 2014

Craig Wedren (Shudder to Think) Talks Death Grips’ Niggas on the Moon

When I first took LSD, it felt like coming home.

July 3, 2014

Missy Mazzoli (Victoire) Talks Hauschka’s Abandoned City

Abandoned City, the newest album from German experimental musician Hauschka, is at once restless, exuberant, and wonderfully intimate.

March 17, 2014

Louise Burns (Gold & Youth, Lillix) Talks Current 93’s I Am the Last of All the Field That Fell: A Channel

Picture yourself in a world ruled hand-in-hand by Aleister Crowley and Jesus Christ. Every moment feels like you're on the edge of the apocalypse...

March 12, 2014

David Hartley (the War on Drugs) Talks Xiu Xiu’s Angel Guts: Red Classroom

I'm not your typical Xiu Xiu listener — my musical tastes skew towards artists that can temporarily quell my simmering anxiety rather than dredge...

February 3, 2014

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

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

After listening to Laurel Halo’s new album Chance of Rain for the fourth time, I’m left with an impression that is more visual than aural...

October 29, 2013

Missy Mazzoli (Victoire) Talks Zola Jesus and J.G. Thirlwell feat. Mivos Quartet’s Versions

The most striking part of Versions, the new album from Nika Roza Danilova, aka Zola Jesus, isn’t the presence of a string quartet or the...

August 19, 2013

Aaron Hemphill (Liars) Talks the Legendary Pink Dots’ The Gethsemane Option

The Legendary Pink Dots' 2010 album Seconds Late for the Brighton Line was the first album I ever pre-ordered online. The package...

July 19, 2013

Tim Harrington (Les Savy Fav) Talks Whatever Brains’ Whatever Brains

There is a longstanding tradition in counterculture music of naming your band something so off-putting or so inane that it dares the world to dis...

July 18, 2013