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Sadie Dupuis is the guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter of rock band Speedy Ortiz. She&#8217;s also the producer &amp; multi-instrumentalist behind pop project Sad13. Sadie heads the record label Wax Nine, has written for outlets including Spin, Nylon, and Playboy, and holds an MFA in poetry from UMass Amherst. Mouthguard, her first book, was published in 2018.
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Sadie Dupuis

Music

Polvo Finally Appreciates Their Own Music — Sort Of

EDGESLAYER is a multi disciplinary visual and music artist based in New Orleans.

Edge Slayer

Edge Slayer and Jasmine Infiniti Talk Voices, Vockah Redu, and New Orleans

<div>Person is the debut from NYC&#8217;s P.E., a band born of the city&#8217;s art-punk underground and dedicated to freaky experimentation. Comprising Veronica Torres, Jonathan Campolo, and Benjamin Jaffe (all of the beloved and freshly defunct Pill) alongside Jonathan Schenke and Robert Jones of the electronic/art-rock favorite Eaters, P.E. features some of NYC&#8217;s most notable experimental voices. Early shows were entirely improvisational, allowing the group to develop a collaborative chemistry that led to an equally free-form recording process.</div>
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<div>The resulting LP displays the group’s collective experience writing memorable songs, matched with a dedication to tearing them apart at the seams. Recorded at Schenke&#8217;s Studio Windows, Person holds the spark of P.E.&#8217;s early improvisations in its clattering industrial percussion, zigzagging synths and sax, and colorful dystopian poetry. The group&#8217;s natural language results in a sonic lexicon reflecting the unnatural surroundings of their adopted home in NYC—chaotic yet alluring, gnarly, and fun. Sold and packaged with a tender tone, this is music for fully-formed persons aware of their ideological discrepancies. Turn on the human music of the 21st century.</div>
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P.E.

P.E. Talk Remixes and the Art of Maximalism With Liars’ Angus Andrew

<div>Maggie Nye is a DC-based writer and editor. She is the former Writer-in-Residence at St. Albans School and the current Assistant Editor at the Journal of Palestine Studies. Her fiction and nonfiction is published or forthcoming in Passages North, Hobart, Pleiades, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere. Find her online at <a href="http://maggienye.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://maggienye.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1579031276088000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEYXbHZ6kNDSmXHEwu8blhv9EC1WA">maggienye.com</a>.</div>
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Maggie Nye

Sam Goblin currently lives in Tallahassee, FL and plays music with Mister Goblin and Deady. He hopes to never, ever, ever become a music writer.

Sam Goblin

A Conversation with the Bog-Dwelling Mastermind Behind Mister Goblin

Bambara — the Bateh brothers, Reid and Blaze, singer/guitarist and drummer respectively, and bassist William Brookshire — have been evolving their midnight-black noise into something more subtle and expansive ever since the release of their 2013 debut Dreamviolence. Formed in Athens, Georgia the band have consistently expanded their sound and with it an audience marked by a cult-like devotion to the band. With 2018’s Shadow On Everything, a narrative concept album that was their first release on stalwart Brooklyn independent Wharf Cat Records, the band made some major artistic strides. The album drew attention from critics, being dubbed “a mesmerizing western gothic opus” by NPR, and earning praise from likes of VICE, Bandcamp, The Quietus, and Spin, and from Bambara’s growing circle of peers, with ex-tour mates like IDLES’ Joe Talbot and Daughters’ Alexis Marshall highlighting the album as one of the best of the year in interviews. Bambara are currently preparing to release their follow up, Stray, which is due out on Wharf Cat on February 14. It’s an album built on dedication, creative risk taking and an immersive approach to creative expression &#8211; principles and processes that pay off in a release that represents a monumental leap forward for the band.
(Photo Credit: Kevin Condon)

Bambara

Bambara Talk Songwriting, Parenting, and Sobriety with IDLES’s Joe Talbot

Austin Brown is an artist living in Brooklyn, New York. He is a writer and known member of Parquet Courts.

Austin Brown

Gong Gong Gong Talk Writing Songs in Cantonese with Austin Brown (Parquet Courts)

Ben Lee began his career as a young teenager in the early ’90s, in the Australian lo-fi punk band Noise Addict, who were discovered by taste-making artists Sonic Youth and the Beastie Boys. This began what is now an almost 25-year career of producing intelligent and spiritual indie-pop songs that have soundtracked Ben’s inner life in music.

Ben Lee

Growing Up In The Spotlight: Ben Lee and Jake Fogelnest In Conversation

Steve Earle is a rock/country/folk singer-songwriter. His latest album, Steve Earle &amp; The Dukes&#8216; GUY, was released March 2019.
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Steve Earle

Steve Earle and Will Beeley Play Catch Up

Low Tide is the recording project of Eli Oberman and Courtney Robbins. Robbins and Oberman are current members of NY feminist punk band The Shondes (Rolling Stone, SPIN, BUST). The Alchemist, entirely self-produced, will be Oberman&#8217;s first solo record as a nonbinary artist, carefully constructed to relate the “holy balance” necessary to facilitate a meaningful and contented reality.
Low Tide take the arduous expanse of existence and condense it into a series of lovingly orchestrated and tenderly sung compositions. The Alchemist conspires to embrace the complexities of life, the fractious nature of existence, the elemental way humanity seems to simultaneously be disassembling and recreating, in an effort to simplify how we all manage them — an ostensibly herculean task. Oberman was met with the visage of The Alchemist, a genderless symbol of life’s precarious balancing act that — if balanced appropriately — can engender happiness and joy. Existing in the pastoral crevices that have birthed such mossy-hilled folk-classics as Van Morrison’s Veedon Fleece and, more recently, the trauma-folk of Big Thief and the haunting warmth of Antony and the Johnsons and PJ Harvey, the band’s first release is lucky enough to not only carry this oft-under recognized style, but to insinuate such a unique perspective as to make something anachronistic sound fresh again.
The Alchemist, implicitly baked in the ambiguity of gender, the detritus of our internal and external lives, and a sweeping milieu of gothic romanticism, is a stunning document of not only a band in full bloom, but also an encapsulation of the world we all live in, offering not just a document of life in America in 2019, but also the world’s introduction to what is sure to be an electrifying future for the band.
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Eli Oberman

Kate Bornstein is an author and actor who has for over thirty years been writing groundbreaking books on the subject of nonbinary gender, including Gender Outlaw and My New Gender Workbook. Additionally, Kate has maintained a career in theater, making her Broadway debut in the summer of 2018, co-starring in the Second Stage Theater’s production of Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men.

Kate Bornstein

For the Fun of It: A Conversation with Kate Bornstein and Eli Oberman

Alice Boman is a singer-songwriter from Malmo, Sweden.
(Photo Credit: Märta Thisner)

Alice Boman

Introducing: Alice Boman’s “Don’t Forget About Me”

Nika Danilova records under the name Zola Jesus. You can follow her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/ZOLAJESUS">here</a>.

Nika Danilova

Devon Welsh (ex-Majical Cloudz) and Nika Danilova (Zola Jesus) on Their Musical Origins

<div>Robin Edwards is Seattle-based musician who performs as <a href="https://lisaprank.bandcamp.com/">Lisa Prank</a>  and in the supergroup <a href="http://whoisshe.bandcamp.com/">Who is She?</a> You can follow her on <a href="https://twitter.com/lisaprank">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lisa_prank">Instagram,</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lisaprankmusic/">Facebook</a>.</div>

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