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Shara Nova is a classically trained vocalist and self-taught multi-instrumentalist who records dazzling shapeshifting music as My Brightest Diamond. Over the course of five groundbreaking albums, including her most recent LP A Million And One, she has resisted the conventions of genre, blending elements of rock, art pop and chamber music into a sound totally her own. During her career, Nova has also collaborated and played with a long list of talented artists and filmmakers including but not limited to Sufjan Stevens, Laurie Anderson, The Decemberists, David Byrne &amp; Fatboy Slim, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and Matthew Barney. Last fall she was announced as one of the four Carolina Performing Arts Creative Future Fellows and is a Kresge Fellow, Knights Grant recipient and a United States Artists fellow. She has composed works for yMusic, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Young New Yorkers’ Chorus, Brooklyn Rider, Nadia Sirota, and Roomful of Teeth and performed at Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Kennedy Center.

Shara Nova

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Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) Talks Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings’ Give the People What They Want

Matthew Dear is a DJ, a dance-music producer, an experimental pop artist, and a bandleader. His latest album Beams is a suite of weird, wild, and queasily optimistic rhythm-driven pop songs. He currently lives in upstate New York near the Delaware River. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/matthewdear">here</a>.

Matthew Dear

Matthew Dear Talks Broken Bells’ After the Disco

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.

Peter Holsapple

Rosanne Cash has recorded 14 albums, with 11 number one singles and 11 Grammy nominations (with one award) including two for her latest album The List. She wrote the bestselling memoir Composed, a collection of short stories, Bodies of Water, and a children&#8217;s book, Penelope Jane: A Fairy&#8217;s Tale. Her essays and fiction have appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and New York, among others. She is writing an album about the South with husband and longtime collaborator, Grammy award-winning producer and musician John Leventhal. You can follow her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/rosannecash">here</a>.

Rosanne Cash

Peter Holsapple (the dB’s, Holsapple & Stamey, Continental Drifters) Talks Rosanne Cash’s The River & the Thread

<div>Zachary Lipez is the singer of the band Publicist UK. He is the co-author (with Stacy Wakefield and Nick Zinner) of a number of books, most recently 131 Different Thinks (Akashic 2018). He is a freelance writer in NYC and tends bar at 124 Old Rabbit Club.</div>
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Zachary Lipez

Zachary Lipez (Freshkills, Publicist UK) Talks Vex Ruffin’s Vex Ruffin

Eddie Argos is a lo-fi punk rock motherfucker, the singer in Art Brut, and a writer and painter living in Berlin. He is quite tall.

Eddie Argos

Eddie Argos (Art Brut) Talks Toy’s Join the Dots

Ben Allison is a bassist, composer, bandleader, educator and advocate for musician’s rights. His eleventh album, The Stars Look Very Different Today is available on Sonic Camera Records.

Ben Allison

Ben Allison Talks Schematic’s Color (n.) Inside the Lines

Various Artists

Various Artists (Mish Way, Matthew Shipp, Eddie Argos and more) Talk Overlooked Albums of 2013 Part Two

Various Artists (James McNew, Laura Pleasants, Sean Yeaton and more) Talk Overlooked Albums of 2013 Part One

Devon Welsh&nbsp;writes songs and lyrics in&nbsp;Majical Cloudz. His opinions are neither to be taken seriously nor to be trusted.

Devon Welsh

Devon Welsh (Majical Cloudz) Talks Mutual Benefit’s Love’s Crushing Diamond

Nico Muhly is a New York-based composer and songwriter. He has collaborated with Björk, the National, Philip Glass, Usher, Antony and the Johnsons and Bonnie &#8220;Prince&#8221; Billy, among others. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/nicomuhly">here</a> and visit his website <a href="http://nicomuhly.com/">here</a>.

Nico Muhly

Nico Muhly Talks Beyoncé’s Beyoncé

Erika M. Anderson performs and records music under her initials as EMA.  She grew up in the dive bars and rotten graveyards of South Dakota.  Now she lives in Portland, OR and tries to do yoga and eat local but sometimes that shit just don&#8217;t work out.  She is only occasionally blonde.

Erika M. Anderson

Erika M. Anderson (EMA) Talks Britney Spears’s Britney Jean

Marnie Stern is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and guitarist. She has garnered acclaim for her technical skill and tapping style of guitar playing. She currently resides in New York City with her dog Fig. You can follow her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/MarnieStern">here</a>.

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