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Valentine’s Day By the Soft Moon — Or, How I Fell in Love with Music Again

Carlos Dengler attended his first show in five years on New York's coldest Hallmark holiday yet.

April 21, 2016

Hutch Harris (the Thermals) Talks Beach Slang’s The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us

The Philadelphia band's new album has a drinking problem. And it feels terrible. But it also feels great.

November 2, 2015

Andy Gill (Gang of Four) Talks with Jon Langford (the Mekons) for The Talkhouse Music Podcast

Two iconic post-punks recall their common roots, and trace the evolution of the concept of punk rock and how it inspired their respective bands.

Lois Macdonald (PINS) Talks No Joy’s More Faithful

She might be tardy to the party, but PINS' singer has fallen hard for the dystopic sparkle of No Joy. Now she just needs to see them live.

June 17, 2015

Gareth Sager (The Pop Group, Rip Rig + Panic) Talks Freak Heat Waves’ Bonnie’s State of Mind

A UK post-punk legend checks out how a rock band from British Columbia stacks up against the Canadian Army in World War I.

March 11, 2015

Zachary Lipez (Freshkills, Publicist UK) Talks Rancid’s …Honor Is All We Know

They could stand to be a bit more specific, but Rancid still loves all the right things, and Zachary Lipez still loves Rancid.

December 2, 2014

Joe Casey (Protomartyr) Talks Interpol’s El Pintor

Protomartyr’s lead singer tries to figure out why people think his band sounds like Interpol.

October 6, 2014

Ben Greenberg (the Men, Hubble) Talks Disappears’ Era

A good friend of mine grew up attending punk and hardcore shows in southern California in the '90s. He’s got a ton of great stories, but one that...

September 6, 2013

Tim Harrington (Les Savy Fav) Talks Whatever Brains’ Whatever Brains

There is a longstanding tradition in counterculture music of naming your band something so off-putting or so inane that it dares the world to dis...

July 18, 2013

Laura Jane Grace (Against Me!) Talks Savages’ Silence Yourself

Silence Yourself, the debut album from the London band Savages, starts off with a vocal sample from the 1977 John Cassavetes film...

May 10, 2013

Randy Blythe (Lamb of God) Talks Crime and the City Solution’s American Twilight

Before the days of Pro Tools and iPods and half-decent stock stereos in every car sold, musicians used to give new mixes of their tunes what we...

March 29, 2013