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In Conversation
In Conversation: Deftones’ Chino Moreno Has Finally Achieved Balance

In a year that’s gone off the rails, “Ohms” proves the alt-metal rockers’ ultimate act of resistance.

September 28, 2020
Art & Culture
Is Everything Awesome? A Philosophical Inquiry with Nick Riggle

The author and philosopher (and former professional inline skater) tells us what it is to be awesome, and how to live with the power of awesomeness inside you. 

April 03, 2018
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Miguel and Pussy Riot Party at the Brink

In the post-Trump world, everyone has an obligation to be political. But that doesn’t mean that we still don’t want to dance. Miguel and Nadya Tolokonnikova are figuring out how to do both.

October 24, 2017
RIP: Tom Petty (1950–2017)

The quintessential rock-and-roller died Monday at the age of sixty-six.

October 02, 2017
PREMIERE: Caspian Cull Super-8 Archives in “Sad Heart of Mine” Video

From 2015’s “Dust and Disquiet.”

September 29, 2017
Reviews
The Myrrors, “Hasta La Victoria”

Like Jonny Greenwood and Shye Ben Tzur’s “Junun,” this is music that uses rhythm and repetition—and strategic departures from both—as ways of generating and shaping power; it is a suggestion of community.

August 11, 2017
Playlist
POW!: Twelve Albums That Influenced “Check Your Head”

Great record collectors make great records. Uh, sometimes.

June 16, 2017
Events
Oasis: FORM Arcosanti Offers Streams in the Desert

Hundred Waters and Moses Sumney’s fourth-annual gathering reimagines what a music festival can be.

May 17, 2017

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A New Day Dawning: How “Check Your Head” Invented the Beastie Boys

Their audience didn’t understand them. Their label didn’t want to talk to them. Not to worry: For the Beastie Boys, it was a brand-new morning.

April 19, 2017
PREMIERE: Conner Youngblood Takes us to School in a Reykjavik Classroom

The confessional Nashville experimentalist delivers a pair of standouts from last year’s The Generation of Lift EP on a gray Icelandic morning.

February 15, 2017
Art & Culture
Bitte, Baby: Riot LA and Comedy in the Age of Trump

Comedy—and particularly political comedy—only reinforces our bubbles. So what?

January 25, 2017

Tinariwen / photo by Marie Planeille

PREMIERE: Tinariwen Sing Songs of Freedom for the Women of the Sahara in “Assàwt”

The Tuareg guitar masters return with “Elwan” on February 10.

January 23, 2017
PREMIERE: Forget What You’ve Heard, Chicano Batman Says “Freedom is Free”

“Throughout our history the state has presented the rationale that freedom is not free…. This song is an anti-thesis to that ideological fallacy.”

January 18, 2017

NE-HI / photo by Bryan Allen Lamb

PREMIERE: Spirits Are High in the Video for NE-HI’s “Offers”

The Chicago quartet head out of the garage in search of whatever comes next.

January 16, 2017
Staff Picks
Dig for Fire: 25 Upcoming Albums More People Should Be Talking About

From québécois kraut-funk to the return of two of indie rock’s most celebrated sidemen, these are the unsung albums we’re most excited for this year.

January 12, 2017

photo by Stevan Alcala

PREMIERE: Hard Proof Bridge Western Rock and Sub-Saharan Funk in “Stinger”

The Austin ten-piece get an assist from the production work of Chris “Frenchie” Smith.

January 10, 2017

Futurebirds / photo by Anthony Pidgeon

PREMIERE: Futurebirds Take on Vic Chesnutt’s “Dodge” for Pickathon’s Slab Sessions

The latest from the Oregon festival’s 2016–2017 season.

January 06, 2017

The Silver Lake Chorus / photo by Lehua Noelle

PREMIERE: The Silver Lake Chorus Greet “Sister Winter” in New Video

The LA group take on Sufjan Stevens’s frosty classic.

December 19, 2016

photo by Christophe Pastel

PREMIERE: South Africa’s Portable Gets Lost in the City, Finds Refuge in the Andes in “Closer” Video

The African electronica auteur’s semi-self-titled album Alan Abrahams dropped in August.

December 13, 2016

photo by Brian Pritchard

PREMIERE: Tim Cohen Feels More Ambivalent About “Meat Is Murder” Than It First Appears

The Fresh & Onlys frontman is releasing “Luck Man” on January 27.

December 12, 2016
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