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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

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Geoff Rickly (Thursday, UN) Talks Deafheaven’s Sunbather

Rachel Trachtenburg is a musician, model, and animal rights activist. She started playing drums at the age of six and toured the world with her family band the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. She is now the lead singer of her all-girl band SUPERCUTE!, whom you can follow on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/SUPERCUTEMUSIC">here</a>.

Rachel Trachtenburg

Rachel Trachtenburg (SUPERCUTE!) Talks Katy Perry: Part of Me

Vijay Iyer has carved out a unique path as an influential, prolific, shape-shifting presence in twenty-first-century music. A composer and pianist active across multiple musical communities, Iyer has created a consistently innovative, emotionally resonant body of work over the last twenty-five years, earning him a place as one of the leading music-makers of his generation.
He received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a United States Artist Fellowship, a Grammy nomination, the Alpert Award in the Arts, and two German “Echo” awards, and was voted Downbeat Magazine’s Jazz Artist of the Year four times in the last decade. He has released twenty-four albums of his music, most recently UnEasy (ECM Records, 2021), a trio session with drummer Tyshawn Sorey and bassist Linda May Han Oh; The Transitory Poems (ECM, 2019), a live duo recording with pianist Craig Taborn; Far From Over (ECM, 2017) with the award-winning Vijay Iyer Sextet; and A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke (ECM, 2016) a suite of duets with visionary composer-trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith.
A longtime New Yorker, Iyer lives in central Harlem with his wife and daughter. He teaches at Harvard University in the Department of Music and the Department of African and African American Studies. He is a Steinway artist.
(Photo Credit: Craig Marsden)

Vijay Iyer

Vijay Iyer Talks Boards of Canada’s Tomorrow’s Harvest

Steve Wynn is a solo artist as well as a founding member of the Dream Syndicate, Gutterball and the Baseball Project.  Read/listen more at <a href="http://www.stevewynn.net/">www.stevewynn.net</a> and his <a href="http://facebook.com/stevewynn">Facebook page.</a>

Steve Wynn

Steve Wynn (the Dream Syndicate, Gutterball, the Baseball Project) Talks Primal Scream’s More Light

Kurt Wagner is a founding member of the group <a href="http://www.lambchop.net/">Lambchop</a>, who have been making records consistently since approx. 1987. Look it up. He is currently working on electronic dance recordings based on a 2 min. 40 sec. monologue by Buddy Hackett called <a id="yui_3_10_3_3_1393352763581_437" href="http://www.songrecords.us/coral61105.mp3">&#8220;The Diet&#8221;</a>  originally released by Coral Records as a 78 rpm single in 1953. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/lambchopisaband">here</a>

Kurt Wagner

Kurt Wagner (Lambchop) Talks Sigur Rós’ Kveikur

James McNew is a member of Yo La Tengo. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/dumpland">here</a>.

James McNew

James McNew (Dump, Yo La Tengo) Talks Steve Gunn’s Time Off

Talkhouse Contributing Writer Rick Moody is a member of the Wingdale Community Singers. He is also the author of five novels, three collections of stories, a memoir, and, most recently, a collection of essays called On Celestial Music. Since 2009, he has written music criticism at the Rumpus.

Rick Moody

Rick Moody (the Wingdale Community Singers) Talks the Orb and Lee “Scratch” Perry’s More Tales from the Orbservatory

As the frontman of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Kip Berman wrote songs about the thrills and ills of young adult life with the care and concern of a cool older sibling. The long-standing New York City indiepop group disbanded soon after releasing their final record, The Echo of Pleasure (2017), and Berman found himself at a creative crossroads. He wanted to keep making music, but the themes and sounds he was interested in had shifted; it felt time for a course correction.
Enter Tethers, Berman’s first solo record as The Natvral, which finds him coming to terms with the changes in his own life by observing those transformations in the people he’s known — a self-portrait in relief. In the time between making his last record with his former band, Berman’s life and location have shifted dramatically, as he welcomed a daughter, then a son, and moved from Brooklyn to Princeton. With his new identity as a parent came a crucial shift in how he approached music. Gone were the months in a cramped tour van and late nights rehearsing with his band in a windowless warehouse space. In its place were amorphous, suburban afternoons playing whimsical songs to two young children, while writing music for himself after their bedtime.
But in this time away from the life of a touring artist, Berman discovered an unvarnished, broken folk rock sound — a marked departure from his previous work.
(Photo Credit: Remy Holwick)

Kip Berman

Kip Berman (The Pains of Being Pure at Heart) Talks the Pastels’ Slow Summits

Talkhouse Contributing Writer Mish Way is the frontwoman of the band<a style="color: #1155cc;" href="https://www.facebook.com/whitelung" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/whitelung" target="_blank">White Lung</a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/whitelung" target="_blank">.</a> Her freelance work can be found in The Guardian, Dazed &amp; Confused, Salon and VICE, amongst others. She prefers writing about sex over music. You can follow her on Twitter <a style="color: #42d9d2;" href="https://twitter.com/myszkaway" target="_blank">here</a>.

Mish Way

Mish Way (White Lung) Talks Surfer Blood’s Pythons

Performing as Dean Ween, Mickey Melchiondo sang and played guitar in Ween.  He now runs <a href="http://mickeysfishing.com/home.htm">Mickey&#8217;s Guide Service</a>, home of Archangel Sportfishing, based out of Belmar, New Jersey, and New Hope, Pennsylvania.

Mickey Melchiondo

Mickey Melchiondo (Ween) Talks Anvil’s Hope in Hell

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 (Quasi, Sleater-Kinney, Wild Flag) Talks Sonny and the Sunsets’ Antenna to the Afterworld

Sean Nelson is a writer, musician, and actor. His solo album, Make Good Choices, is available on <a href="http://www.reallyrecords.com/">Really Records</a>. He is an editor at <a href="http://www.thestranger.com">The Stranger</a>. He currently lives in Seattle. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/seantroversy">here</a>.

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