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Carey Mercer is a member of Frog Eyes, Swan Lake and Blackout Beach. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/frogeyesmusic">here</a>.

Carey Mercer

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Carey Mercer (Frog Eyes, Swan Lake, Blackout Beach) Talks Josephine Foster’s Blood Rushing

Robertson Thacher, also known as Bobby Matador, is a member of the musical organization and performance ensemble Oneida, founded in 1997. In addition to making unseemly noise, he teaches literature, writing, and art at a Boston-area middle school.

Bobby Matador

Bobby Matador (Oneida) talks Rod Stewart’s Time

Talkhouse Contributing Writer Matthew Friedberger, a Chicagoan born in 1972, is unemployed. He has no degrees or credentials of any kind.  He is, therefore and however, a songwriter and composer and has released 10 solo records in the last two years. His next work, Again with the Greatest Hits Live in the Studio, will appear shortly. He lives in France.

Matthew Friedberger

Matthew Friedberger (the Fiery Furnaces) Talks Vampire Weekend’s Modern Vampires of the City

Geoffrey William Rickly. Talkhouse Contributing Writer and former singer of Thursday and Ink &amp; Dagger.  Current singer of UN and No Devotion, making occasional music of various shapes and sizes. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/GeoffRickly" target="_blank">here</a>.

Geoff Rickly

Geoff Rickly (Thursday, UN, Ink & Dagger) Talks Deerhunter’s Monomania

Laura Jane Grace sings and plays guitar in the band Against Me! You can follow her on Twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/LauraJaneGrace">here</a>.

Laura Jane Grace

Laura Jane Grace (Against Me!) Talks Savages’ Silence Yourself

Angel Del Villar II emcees under the codename Homeboy Sandman. He has written for RapRehab, the Huffington Post, and Gawker. You can follow him on Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/homeboysandman">here</a>.

Angel Del Villar II

Angel Del Villar II (Homeboy Sandman) Talks Obey the Altar Native’s Musical Advancement: The Museum

Matt Fraction lives in the woods outside of Portland, Oregon, with his family of coyote, deer, and beloved humans. He writes or wrote comic books like Iron Man, Fantastic Four, Thor, Hawkeye, Casanova and Satellite Sam while free-associating at <a href="http://www.mattfraction.com/">mattfraction.com </a>and <a href="http://www.twitter.com/mattfraction">@mattfraction</a> on Twitter.

Matt Fraction

Matt Fraction Talks About the Uneasy Listening of the Flaming Lips’ The Terror

Janet Weiss&nbsp;lives in Portland, Oregon, where she plays drums in&nbsp;Quasi&nbsp;and&nbsp;Sleater-Kinney. She loves dogs and horses, and enjoys producing good records. You can follow her on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jazzzhand">here</a>.

Janet Weiss

Janet Weiss (Wild Flag, Quasi, Sleater-Kinney) Talks Os Mutantes’ Fool Metal Jack

Buzz Osborne is a founding member of “rock” band the Melvins. Over the past 30 years, he’s played on more than 50 recordings on various major and minor labels, and performed over 2000 shows. In 2012 the Melvins became the first band to release three different records in the same year with three different lineups of the band, and did a spring tour of the U.S., a Canadian tour, and a London show with Slayer to 10,000 people, then played shows in all 50 states, plus DC, in a record-setting 51 days. Osborne’s latest album, released under the moniker King Buzzo,  is a collaboration with Trevor Dunn of Mr. Bungle called Gift Of Sacrifice.

Buzz Osborne

Buzz Osborne (the Melvins) Talks the Stooges’ Ready to Die

Bob Mould is an American singer-songwriter, DJ, producer, and the author of an autobigraphy, <a href="http://http//www.amazon.com/See-Little-Light-Trail-Melody/dp/B009WHP5PW/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1366903168&amp;sr=1-1">See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody</a> (Little, Brown, 2011). He has slept on more floors than he can remember. He has flown in Lear jets producing live TV pro wrestling. He has performed in halls across the world: Carnegie, Royal Albert, Disney, and dozens of VFW. Mould is currently living vehicle-free in San Francisco.

Bob Mould

Bob Mould (Hüsker Dü, Sugar) Talks Phoenix’s Bankrupt!

Stew is the writer and co-creator of the Tony Award-winning musical Passing Strange and the singer of the Negro Problem. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/StewTNP">here</a>.

Stew

Stew (Passing Strange, the Negro Problem) Talks Ghostface Killah’s 12 Reasons to Die

Talkhouse Contributing Writer Peter Holsapple has sung and played guitar in the dB&#8217;s, Holsapple &amp; Stamey, and Continental Drifters, as well as playing on albums and tours with R.E.M., Hootie and the Blowfish, Indigo Girls, and Nanci Griffith. He contributes to the New York Times&#8216; songwriter&#8217;s blog Measure for Measure, and has written pieces in several books on music.  Peter is a charter member of Radio Free Song Club, a magnificent new songwriters&#8217; collective. He considers himself among the luckiest people on earth.

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