indie rock
Katie Crutchfield (Waxahatchee) Talks Jenny Lewis’ The Voyager
Jenny Lewis' music has soundtracked key moments in the life of Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield. Will Lewis' new album do the same?
John Roderick (the Long Winters) Talks Eels’ The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett
I listened to the new Eels album The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett and felt weary. I looked up the Eels on the internet, and...
Andy McCluskey (OMD) Talks Future Islands’ Singles
OK, let’s get this over in the first paragraph. I am reliably informed that many find similarities between my band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the....
Luke Temple (Here We Go Magic) Talks Mac DeMarco’s Salad Days
The internet allows fans to feel connected with artists on a more intimate level. No longer are we beholden to any sort of programming — we can...
Peter Holsapple (the dB’s, Holsapple & Stamey, Continental Drifters) Talks Foster the People’s Supermodel
There is a fine line that a musician walks when he also chooses to write about his fellow musicians’ work, so I usually try to keep on the sunny...
Mish Way (White Lung) Talks the Three Best Bands That Spawned the Worst Bands
I'm in the car with Baby A driving to Mexico, bored and hot, blasting Dirty Tricks. We were playing the regular road trip games musicians move onto...
Devon Welsh (Majical Cloudz) Talks Sky Ferreira’s Night Time, My Time
In an attempt to reconcile the apparent hypocrisy of this piece of writing, I suggest that it be the last piece on Night Time, My Time that....
Khaela Maricich (the Blow) Talks MGMT’s MGMT
What is music for? This question maybe seems too massive to be worth considering, but listening to the new MGMT album, my bandmate Melissa Dyne and...
Gavin Dunbar (Camera Obscura) Talks Franz Ferdinand’s Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
Franz Ferdinand came from nowhere, or so it seemed. Most of the band had been around Glasgow in bands for an age, or worked in venues doing sound...
Sean Yeaton (Parquet Courts) Talks the Vaccines’ Melody Calling
I was recently in Portland performing at a festival at Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, which, to digress for a moment, was fantastic — the vibes...
Sean Nelson (Harvey Danger) Talks the Comedy-Indie-Rock Complex
A funny notion occurred to me at the recent Sasquatch! Festival. As I squeezed among the teeming horde up on its tiptoes in the hopes of catching...
Sage Francis Talks Bosnian Rainbows’ Bosnian Rainbows
There's a dream I had in middle school that has stuck with me my whole life. In the dream I was offered a choice between two cars: a red 1988...











