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Reading Music: I Wish John Doe’s New Book Were More About John Doe

Emily Nokes of Tacocat reviews the X founding member's book, Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk

April 27, 2016

An Excerpt from NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories by NOFX and Jeff Alulis

Fat Mike reveals how he fell in love with punk rock.

April 7, 2016

Amy Ray (Indigo Girls) Talks a Playlist of Songs from Her Ten Favorite Albums of 2015

This playlist includes both driving tunes and music for two-year-olds to dance to.

January 15, 2016

The 2015 Talkies: Complete Listing of Talkhouse Writers’ Year-End Top Tens

Year-end top ten lists from Laura Jane Grace (Against Me!), Dave Depper (Death Cab for Cutie), Merrill Garbus (Tune-Yards), Spencer Tweedy and more.

January 8, 2016

Michael Ian Cummings (SKATERS) Talks Courtney Barnett’s Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit

This record harks back to the ‘90s while simultaneously reassuring the listener that they’re not alone in their millennial confusion.

December 17, 2015

Zach Staggers (The So So Glos) Talks Leftöver Crack’s Constructs of the State

Leftöver Crack’s long-awaited new record is protest music in its most extreme incarnation.

December 3, 2015

Zachary Lipez (Freshkills, Publicist UK) Talks Flesh World’s The Wild Animals in My Life

Noise? Queercore? Shoegaze? Flesh World’s new album defies such easy classification — which makes it way more fun to talk about at parties.

September 11, 2015

Kevin Devine (the Goddamn Band, Bad Books) Talks Desaparecidos’ Payola

A dozen years after their first album, Desaparecidos would still rather speak truth to power than capitulate to the lowest common denominator.

August 4, 2015

Mish Way (White Lung) Talks Institute’s Catharsis

The band might be hard to Google, but Institute is worth looking up.

July 16, 2015

Mish Way (White Lung) Talks Vexx’s Vexx

Mish Way may have issues with the crunchy ethos of Olympia, but she’s happy they gave Vexx to the world.

January 13, 2015

Anthony Anzaldo (Ceremony) Talks Corners’ Maxed Out on Distractions

Fed-up with watered-down trend-chasers, Ceremony's guitarist finds something real with Los Angeles' Corners.

November 21, 2014

Zachary Lipez (Freshkills, Publicist UK) Talks Iceage’s Plowing Into the Field of Love

Zachary Lipez only teases Iceage out of love. Mad, mad love.

October 31, 2014