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Johnathan Rice signed his first record deal at 19, the same year he made his film debut as Roy Orbison alongside Joaquin Phoenix&rsquo;s Johnny Cash in Walk The Line; he released three solo records that earned tour dates with artists as varied as R.E.M., Ray LaMontagne, Pavement, and Phoenix; he wrote and produced for a slew of well-known artists and collaborated with everyone from Elvis Costello to Jonathan Wilson; and he even published an acclaimed book of poetry. But Rice&rsquo;s latest album, The Long Game, demonstrates a new kind of range and depth, stripping his songs back to their most elemental selves in order to reveal naked reflections on loss, pain, acceptance, and growth.
The Long Game is out May 2019 via Mano Walker Records.

Johnathan Rice

Music

A Guide to Johnathan Rice’s The Long Game

When Bambi and Cole Browning started writing the songs that would be become Reptaliens’ 2017 debut LP, FM-2030, they had no intention of starting a band. Focusing at first on creating music and art on a purely personal level, the project soon took off when the duo brought on Julian Kowalski (guitar) and Tyler Verigin (drums) to form a live band. The four-piece swiftly delved into songwriting inspired by sci-fi art and literature, cult mentalities, and deep connections. The result was the band’s self-defined genre of “dreamwave,” which connected musical influences ranging from Gary Wilson-inspired jazzy lounge music, the warmth of Broadcast’s recording production, to Todd Rundgren’s outer space synth sounds.
After touring throughout most of 2017 and 2018 with STRFKR, Cults, and Of Montreal, the band returned home and went straight into renowned Portland studio Jackpot to record their sophomore LP, VALIS. Titled after the 1981 Philip K. Dick novel, VALIS was released via Captured Tracks in April 2019.
(Photo Credit: Eirrin Gragson)

Reptaliens

First Entry

Bellows is the bedroom recording project of songwriter and producer Oliver Kalb.

Bellows

Introducing: Bellows’ “Rosebush”

Harmony Tividad is a song writer from Los Angeles, CA. She plays in the band Girlpool and finds her spare time spent deconstructing God through the lens of a person who loves stuffed animals and crystals, but from a &#8220;practical&#8221; standpoint. When not writing in third person, she finds herself usually talking in first person about the myth and the lie. Much of her life has been spent deifying her acquaintances.
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Harmony Tividad

In the Groupchat with Harmony Tividad and Duster

How do you best describe Angel Olsen? From the lo-fi, sparse folk-melancholy of her 2010 EP, Strange Cacti, to the electrified, polished rock ‘n’ roll bursting from 2016’s beloved and acclaimed My Woman, Olsen has refused to succumb to a single genre, expectation, or vision. Impossible to pin down, Olsen navigates the world with her remarkable, symphonic voice and a propensity for narrative, her music growing into whatever shape best fits to tell the story.
(Photo Credit: Taylor Boylston)
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Angel Olsen

Email My Heart: a Chat with Angel Olsen and Jess Ribeiro

Trevor Vaughan is a musician from New Bedford, MA. He’s the mastermind behind Wound Man and plays in countless other bands including The Rival Mob, Wolf Whistle, Clear, and many more. Outside of music he works in organic farming at Simmons Farm in Rhode Island.
(Photo Credit: Rob Coons)

Wound Man

What Is Real Powerviolence?

Eva Hendricks is the frontwoman of the New York City-based pop rock quartet Charly Bliss. Charly Bliss&#8217;s new album Young Enough is out May 10 via Barsuk Records.
(Photo Credit: Ebru Yildiz)

Eva Hendricks

PUP and Charly Bliss are Two Sides of the Same Coin

The ever-evolving spectacle that is Diane Coffee — the gender and genre-bending alter ego of Shaun Fleming — returns with Internet Arms, a swan dive into a lush, digital glam wonderland.
Fleming’s path to stardom can be traced all the way back to his childhood days as a Disney voice actor, but for the past six years he’s explored the depths of his identity and channeled it outward in the form of the enigmatic and exuberant Diane Coffee.
In 2018, after performing as King Herod in the Lyric Opera’s critically-acclaimed run of Jesus Christ Superstar, Fleming emerged from the recording studio with Internet Arms. Born from the fear and uncertainty of a future in which humankind is both dependent on and poisoned by technology, the album finds Diane Coffee trapped in a digital world, enslaved by AI. As a whole, Internet Arms marks a significant new phase for Fleming, a testimony to the idea that Diane Coffee will endure as a fluid form of expression that continues to defy expectations of sound and genre.
(Photo Credit: Alexa Viscius)

Diane Coffee

Three Great Things: Diane Coffee

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

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)

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