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Art & Culture
Helado Negro’s Willfully Weird Art

When he’s not writing experimental synth-folk, Roberto Carlos Lange is breaking new ground in the world of collaborative visual art.

September 11, 2019
In Conversation: Justice’s Xavier de Rosnay on Their New Film “IRIS: A Space Opera”

The French electronic music duo welcomes you aboard their alien undertaking. 

September 09, 2019
Reviews
Iggy Pop, “Free”

If Iggy Pop hasn’t been free this whole time, who the fuck has?

September 06, 2019
Reviews
Lana Del Rey, “Norman Fucking Rockwell!”

A cool, cutting chronicler of all things California. 

September 03, 2019
Violent Femmes’ Gordon Gano and His (Not So) Last Resort

The folk-punk trio’s tenth album is their freest and most existential yet.

August 28, 2019
Lover or Hate Her: Taylor Swift Finds Her Soul (Again)

On her seventh record, the pop star has gone from playing the victim to taking full responsibility.

August 23, 2019
Breaking
Cola Boyy Is Breaking the Rules of Dance Music

The artist born Matthew Urango is a multi-instrumentalist whose punk-rock youth led to his making spaced-out, modern disco.

July 26, 2019
Reviews
Sigur Rós, “Ágætis Byrjun 20th Anniversary Edition”

Indefinable, refined, and weirdly universal.

July 23, 2019
Elliot Roberts (1943-2019): Swimming in the Ether

The late manager of Neil Young and Joni Mitchell went deep with his artists.

June 25, 2019
Film + TV
Bob Dylan Rolls with Thunder to Spare

Scorsese’s Netflix doc and the newly released live recordings highlight a mythic chapter in Dylanology.

June 13, 2019
Shooter Jennings Is Branching Out

From “Hee Haw” to heavy metal to rock ‘n’ roll, Shooter has it covered.

June 12, 2019
Reviews
Bruce Springsteen, “Western Stars”

Springsteen has fused his Asbury Park roots with his rambling man esprit, and brought the whole family out to the Hills of Beverly.

June 10, 2019
Reviews
Vampire Weekend, “Father of the Bride”

This is Vampire Weekend’s “White Album”—all its baroque catchiness and experimentation in one not-so-neat double LP package.

May 08, 2019

L7 / photo by Daniel Cavazos

L7’s Donita Sparks on Old Punks, New Music, and Continuing Harassment

On the occasion of the LA punks’ first record in twenty years, Sparks explains why getting the band back together—and pissing in hats—is necessary.

May 06, 2019

December 1, 2018. Saxapahaw, North Carolina

Promo photos of The Mountain Goats ahead of their new album “Dragons”

The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle on His Books, His Songs, and a Podcast That’s About Neither

The core of TMG talks his upcoming album for Merge and his podcast that’s now in its second season.

April 02, 2019

Helado Negro’s This Is How You Smile drops March 8 on RVNG Int

Helado Negro Is Smiling Wide

The Latinx indie musician talks us through his new album “This Is How You Smile,” out this week via RVNG Intl.

March 04, 2019
Reviews
Beirut, “Gallipoli”

Armed with his Farfisa, his torrid voice, and his Technicolor arrangements, Condon has made his most adult listening effort to date.

February 08, 2019
Reviews
Buzzcocks, “Another Music in a Different Kitchen” / “Love Bites”  [reissues]

Buzzcocks’ first two records with Pete Shelley proved that the band could—and did—maintain dramatic and thematic tension through entire song cycles.

January 25, 2019
Reviews
Van Morrison, “The Prophet Speaks”

The Northern Irish singer-songwriter and instrumentalist may be the twentieth century’s most fascinating interpreter of other composers’ vocal music.

December 11, 2018
Reviews
The Beatles, “The Beatles (White Album) Super Deluxe Edition”

If not for the fissure amongst the Beatles’ ranks, the lustrous brilliance and weird experimentalism of this collection wouldn’t shine so bright fifty years later.

November 13, 2018
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