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Role Models: Green On Red Showed Shawna Virago Where to Go

A Negroni sends the punk-country artist back in time to when she first heard Gas Food Lodging...

September 10, 2024

Role Models: Vashti Bunyan Is a Familiar Place for Liana Flores to Return

“In a way Vashti’s impact on my current life is not so much an influence as it is its reason.”

August 20, 2024

Role Models: Jeffrey Silverstein is Inspired By “Plain Old Ted Lucas”

How the master guitarist influenced his new EP, Roseway.

Reference Library: Jane Paknia’s “Orchid Underneath” Was Born in a Storm

The composer on the meteorological (and personal) event that inspired the title track of her new EP.

May 17, 2024

Anthony Bourdain Had an Artist’s Approach to Food

Lauren Denitzio (Worriers) pays tribute.

April 26, 2024

Role Models: Peter Hook Inspired Hobey Echlin’s Style — and 30 Years Later, His Life

The Majesty Crush bassist talks Joy Division, New Order and the bassist behind them.

March 25, 2024

Role Models: Sinéad O’Connor Cracked Paul Soileau’s Head Open

The musician/performance artist behind CHRISTEENE talks The Lion and the Cobra.

March 21, 2024

Role Models: Devo Inspired Brent Amaker to Build His Own Universe

How a fateful SNL appearance left a "profound impact" on the frontman.

Role Models: Nina Nastasia Took More From Her Father Than She Realized

How Jim Nastasia made her the artist she is today.

November 15, 2023

Role Models: Nels Cline is Anthony Pirog’s Guitar Hero

The guitarist talks meeting — and now collaborating with — his idol.

November 14, 2023

Reference Library: Studying the Kora Inspired Montañera’s New Record

María Mónica Gutiérrez on the traditional Colombian and Senegalese sounds found on A Flor de Piel.

November 13, 2023

Reference Library: Joseph Shabason Got Ed Templeton’s Blessing to Rescore Welcome to Hell

The composer on why skateboarding’s a lot like jazz, and more.

November 8, 2023