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

Austin Brown

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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.
(Photo Credit: Tom Bejgrowicz)

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.
(Photo Credit: Jeanette Sears)

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>

Robin Edwards

Guitar God Lisa Prank in Conversation with Big City Producer Rose Melberg

<div>Legal Vertigo is a Montreal artist who is preparing to release his debut LP, Tragic Future Film Star. Though this is his first release under the name he has become well known in the Montreal scene for his work as a producer, most prominently on Operators&#8216; well-received 2019 album Radiant Dawn, and has shared the stage with artists like Alvvays, Wolf Parade, U.S. Girls, Basia Bulat, Bob Odenkirk, and Operators. Tragic Future Film Star will be released on Dine Alone on November 15.</div>

Legal Vertigo

Introducing: Legal Vertigo’s “Napster Vertigo”

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Yoni Wolf has spent the last two decades traveling the remote sonic terrain where hip-hop, rock, and electronic music meet. In that time he’s cultivated a unique sound, and a unique position as one of contemporary music’s most distinctive voices. Some of Yoni’s most compelling and critically-praised musical experiments have been issued under the moniker WHY? and his latest entry is no exception. On AOKOHIO Yoni condenses the essential elements of WHY? into a yostunningly potent musical vision.
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Yoni Wolf

Yoni Wolf and Miles Joris-Peyrafitte Talk Mental Health and Their Creative Processes

<div>Jesca Hoop is a California-born, UK-based songwriter who released her fifth studio album, Stonechild, in July. She has written songs with Sam Beam (Iron and Wine), collaborated with Lucius and This is the Kit on her latest release, and worked with luminaries including Peter Gabriel, Stewart Copeland, and Tom Waits. With her roots in folk and Americana, Hoop continually pushes at the boundaries of what is possible within those traditions, creating songs that twist and turn, constantly surprising, and delightful and disturbing in equal measures.</div>
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Jesca Hoop

“Can You Lie In a Song?” A Conversation with Jesca Hoop and Kate Stables (This Is the Kit)

Based in Austin, Texas, Hovvdy (pronounced “howdy”) is the writing and recording project of Charlie Martin and Will Taylor.
(Photo Credit: Taylor Clark)

Hovvdy

Hovvdy and Dijon Talk the New Frontier of the “Self-Centered DIY Bedroom Musician”

<div dir="ltr">Jlin, one of the most prominent electronic producers of the current generation, first appeared on Planet Mu’s second Bangs &amp; Works compilation, which had a huge impact on electronic/club music. Though she is known for bringing footwork to a wider audience, Jlin doesn’t consider herself a footwork artist. Hailing from Gary, Indiana, a place close yet distant enough from Chicago to allow her to develop a different perspective on the genre, she has morphed its sounds into something entirely new. Released in 2015, her debut album Dark Energy&#8216;s innovative sound propelled it to the top of many of the year’s Best Of lists. Jlin’s sophomore album Black Origami was recently released to even greater critical acclaim and attention. In 2017, Jlin also composed the music for a major new dance work by Wayne McGregor, one of the UK’s best known choreographers.</div>
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