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Bill Janovitz is an author and musician. He is the singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the Boston alt-rock band Buffalo Tom.

Bill Janovitz

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Bill Janovitz (Buffalo Tom) and Jesse Lauter Talk Leon Russell

Nick Rattigan is an LA-based artist who performs solo as Current Joys, and as the singer and drummer of Surf Curse. The latest Current Joys record, LOVE + POP, is out now.

Nick Rattigan

For Current Joys and Brutus VIII, Music is Compulsory

Rebecca El-Saleh is a Brooklyn-based harpist and singer-songwriter who performs as Kitba. Kitba’s self-titled debut is out now on Ruination Recording Co.
(Photo Credit: Sara Laufer)

Kitba

Kitba and Kristin Slipp (mmeadows) Talk Shop

Strange Ranger is an indie rock band based in New York, by-way-of Montana and Oregon. Their latest record, Pure Music, is out now on Fire Talk.
(Photo Credit: Kiernan Francis)

Strange Ranger

Strange Ranger and Chanel Beads Aren’t Going to Talk About Their Upbringings

Sir Chloe is a rock band based in Vermont. Their latest record, I Am the Dog, is out now on Atlantic Records. 
(Photo Credit: Grant Spanier)

Sir Chloe

John Congleton Was Sir Chloe’s “Beacon of Evenness”

<div>Hailing from Houston’s Third Ward, Fat Tony (born Anthony Lawson Jude Ifeanyichukwu Obiawunaotu) is a Nigerian-American rapper who has played an integral role in shaping the Houston rap scene. In 2010, Fat Tony released his innovative debut full-length project RABDARGAB, produced by Tom Cruz. His second studio album Smart Ass Black Boy, released in 2013 on Young One Records, was well-received by critics for its warm, laid-back vibe. Fat Tony won awards in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2013 for Best Underground Hip Hop at the Houston Press Music Awards, and has worked on groundbreaking collaborations with the likes of Das Racist and A$AP Rocky.</div>

Fat Tony

Fat Tony and Madeline Kenney are Chasing Beauty

Kassa Overall is a Grammy-nominated musician, emcee, singer, producer and drummer. He previously released four critically acclaimed projects: I THINK I’M GOOD, Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz, Shades of Flu, and Shades of Flu 2.
On ANIMALS, his Warp Records debut, Kassa pushes his kaleidoscopic, subversive vision further. He layers Roland 808s against avant-garde drumming in the vein of his mentors Elvin Jones and Billy Hart, the latter of whom he studied with at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Virtuoso musos appear alongside rap poets, including Danny Brown, Wiki, Lil B, and Shabazz Palaces. Top-flight jazz improvisation weaves in and out of orchestral string arrangements by Jherek Bischoff. The album’s diverse, all-star roster of collaborators includes several of his close friends, like vocalists Nick Hakim, Laura Mvula, Francis and the Lights, and jazz stars like Theo Croker and Vijay Iyer.
ANIMALS is out now.

Kassa Overall

Introducing: Kassa Overall’s “Going Up” (Feat. Lil B, Shabazz Palaces, Francis and the Lights)

Zeena Parkins is a New York-based harpist, electro-acoustic musician and composer. Her latest release, LACE, is out now on Chaikin Records.

Zeena Parkins

Zeena Parkins and Jessica Pavone Don’t Keep Their Noses in the Page

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Katherine Paul is Black Belt Eagle Scout, and after releasing an EP in 2014, Paul has wrapped up the band’s first full-length. Recorded in the middle of winter near her hometown in Northwest Washington, the landscape’s eerie beauty and Paul’s connection to it are palpable on Mother of My Children. Stemming from this place, the album traces the full spectrum of confronting buried feelings and the loss of what life was supposed to look like.
Paul grew up in a small Indian reservation, the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, surrounded by family focused on native drumming, singing, and arts. &#8220;Indigenous music is the foundation for all of my music,&#8221; Paul explains. From an early age, Paul was singing and dancing at powwows with one of her strongest memories at her family’s own powwow, called the All My Relations Powwow. Paul reminisces, &#8220;When I was younger, my only form of music was through the songs my ancestors taught the generations of my family. Singing in our language is a spiritual process and it carries on through me in how I create music today.&#8221;

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Mother of My Children is a life chapter gently preserved, and the access listeners have to such vulnerability feels special and generous. We are left wanting more, and all signs point to Black Belt Eagle Scout just getting started.
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Katherine Paul

Black Belt Eagle Scout and Mali Obomsawin Have Day Jobs

Jessica Edwards uses her broad background in the film industry as a director, producer and publicist to create and support storytelling. Her award-winning debut short Seltzer Works premiered at SxSW and was broadcast on the PBS series POV in 2010. Her other documentary shorts, including Tugs (2011), The Landfill (2012) and Slowerblack (2017), have screened at film festivals around the world including Sundance, SxSW, Hot Docs, Full Frame, IDFA and dozens of others.
Edwards&#8217; debut feature-length documentary, Mavis!, about soul music legend Mavis Staples and her family group The Staple Singers, premiered on HBO in 2016 and was released in over a dozen countries worldwide. She was awarded a Peabody for distinguished achievement in documentary filmmaking in 2017.
Her current film Skate Dreams, about the rise of women’s skateboarding premiered at SxSW and has screened at festivals including DocNYC, Woodstock, Nantucket, Full Frame and others. It will be available to stream world-wide in 2023.
Edwards holds a MA in Media Studies from The New School in New York City and a BA in Cinema Studies from Montréal&#8217;s Concordia University in her native Canada. She lives and works in the Hudson Valley, NY with her partner and daughter.
(Photo Credit: Ebru Yildiz)

Jessica Edwards

Brujas Talk Scoring Jessica Edwards’s New Documentary, Skate Dreams

As Bile Sister, Toronto-based producer, sound designer, composer, audio engineer, 3D animator, and multi-dimensional artist Julie Reich is a concept in human form. Bile Sister’s boundary-averse and often tormented sounds are the result of nature and pollution colliding, existing just on the cusp of communication and connection, yet always pushing to break through. New album Living on the Edge is Reich’s sharpest realization of Bile Sister’s dichotomous world yet, conjoining intense avant garde risk-taking with an unflinching directness that makes even the album’s most caustic stretches somehow accessible and impossible to ignore.
Living on the Edge is out July 21 via We Are Time.
(Photo Credit: Natalie Logan)

Bile Sister

Bile Sister and Eugenie Diserio Discuss the Apocalypse

Love In a Vicious way is the debut LP from Toronto’s Mother Tongues. A cyber-psych opus that lurks between the cerebral and feral. At moments, precious and serene; in a blink, snarling, teeth razor-sharp. The songs are charged with a sincerity and teenage sentimentalism that captures a time when everything was crucial and felt tenfold.

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