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Greta Kline is a musician from New York City. She has been the lead singer and songwriter of the band Frankie Cosmos since 2012.

Greta Kline

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On Figuring It Out, Publicly

Jenn Wasner is a songwriter, musician, producer and human being. She has released solo music as Flock of Dimes and collaborates with others as a member of Wye Oak and Dungeonesse. She is alive, at work and at play in the city of Durham, NC. You can follow her on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/wyeoak" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here.</a>

Jenn Wasner

Jenn Wasner and Madeline Kenney on the Challenges of Staying Inspired

Kevin Morby, formerly of Woods and the Babies, is about to release his fifth solo album, Oh My God, through Dead Oceans. He currently lives in Los Angeles. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinmorby">here</a>.
(Photo Credit: Barrett Emke)

Kevin Morby

Existing in These In-Between Spaces

Brian Case is an artist and musician born in St. Louis, Missouri. He has been living and working in Chicago, Illinois, since 1995 and has been involved with groups as diverse as 90 Day Men, The Ponys and Acteurs. Most of these bands could be accurately described as footnotes, although The Ponys did quite well for a while there. His most recent band, Disappears, focuses on minimalism and repetition, creating experimental and open music that sits in the negative space where art rock and post punk collapse onto each other. You can follow them on Twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/disappears">here.</a>
(photo credit: Zoran Orlic)

Brian Case

To Play Because It’s In You, To Play Because You Need To

Ages and Ages&#8216; follow up to their critically acclaimed 2016 album, Something To Ruin, Me You They We is a statement of purpose that also served as a respite, a kind of musical group therapy, for the principle songwriters Rob Oberdorfer and Tim Perry who got together twice a week, along with drummer and co-producer Evan Railton, to cope with the daily onslaught of atrocities by writing through it. Ages and Ages continue with their offbeat take on indie-pop in ebbs and flows of optimism and pessimism but never falling into cynicism.

Ages and Ages

A Guide to Ages And Ages’ Me You They We

Mary Timony is the lead singer and guitarist for Helium and Ex Hex and previously played in Wild Flag. <a href="http://smarturl.it/EndsWithAnd" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ends With And</a> collects Helium&#8217;s singles and compilation tracks and is available now from Matador. Catch Mary <a href="http://helium.matadorrecords.com/">on tour</a> playing Helium this summer and follow her on <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryT_Money">Twitter</a>. (Photo by James Smolka.)</a>

Mary Timony

I’m Just A Freak!: In Conversation with Mary Timony and Laena Geronimo

Composer, songwriter, performer Mark Mallman has spent the last 20 years releasing albums, touring, and becoming a Minneapolis music legend. His expansive catalog of infinitely catchy and masterfully orchestrated songs has rocked the airwaves worldwide from MTV to NPR. He reached a new level of creativity and intimacy with his debut book The Happiness Playlist, a memoir written about the six months he spent listening exclusively to uplifting songs as an experiment to make his way through varying bouts of grief brought on by the death of his mother, the end of a relationship and winter in the frozen city of Minneapolis. His latest album, The End Is Not The End, was released in 2016. The Happiness Playlist is his first book.

Mark Mallman

Let Mark Mallman Add Some Music To Your Day

Sam Goblin currently lives in Tallahassee, FL and plays music with Mister Goblin and Deady. He hopes to never, ever, ever become a music writer.

Sam Goblin

La Dispute Isn’t Just a Sad Band

Since the project’s inception, The End Of The Ocean have been the subject of great expectations. Upon the release of their 2011 full-length debut, Pacific-Atlantic, the Columbus, Ohio band was immediately christened a torch-bearer in the second wave of American post-rock. Their new album &#8211;aire was released in January of 2019 on Equal Vision Records.

The End Of The Ocean

Quarter Life Crisis

Jolie Holland is a bandleader and multi-instrumentalist who lives out of suitcases. She writes non-fiction and music, and she makes a very mean heart tartare. Her band is based out of New York City. You can follow her on <a href="http://twitter.com/JolieHolland" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jolieholland" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, and her website is <a href="http://www.joliehollandmusic.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.

Jolie Holland

How Do You Know You’ve Been Slimed?

You Tell Me is the project of Peter Brewis and Sarah Hayes. As one half of Field Music, Brewis has been honing the craft of pop songwriting for almost fifteen years, whilst Hayes has been exploring contemporary folk in her solo work, and the world of indie-pop via her band Admiral Fallow. Their debut self-titled album, the last to be recorded at the old Field Music recording HQ, was released in January 2019 on Memphis Industries.
(Photo Credit: Matt Jacob)

You Tell Me

“Get Confident, Stupid!”: In Conversation with You Tell Me

With a career that encompasses five Grammys, numerous chart successes and personal and professional accolades, as well as collaborations with some of the world’s most prominent artists, Michael McDonald remains an enduring force in popular music. Hailing from St. Louis, McDonald arrived in Los Angeles in the early 1970s, honing his talents as a studio musician before becoming an integral part of Steely Dan. In the mid-’70s McDonald was invited to join the Doobie Brothers as the band redefined their sound with McDonald serving as singer, keyboardist and songwriter on such Top 40 singles as “Takin’ It To The Streets,” “It Keeps You Runnin’,” “Minute By Minute” and “What A Fool Believes.”
Throughout the ’80s and ’90s McDonald’s solo career took off with a string of hits including “I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near),” “Sweet Freedom,” “On My Own” (with Patti LaBelle) and the Grammy-winning James Ingram duet “Yah Mo B There,” plus he co-wrote the Van Halen hit “I’ll Wait.” McDonald has performed with a who’s-who of critically acclaimed artists across a number of genres, including Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Elton John, Joni Mitchell, Vince Gill, and Grizzly Bear.
(Photo Credit: Timothy White)

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