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We Asked People if Their Lives Turned Out the Way They Thought They Would
"Ostensibly, no it hasn't."
The World's Best Whistler Explains How She Got So Good
"Always stay hydrated, and never forget your chapstick."
Reggie Watts Works for Weirdo High School Kids Everywhere
The virtuoso comedian-cum-actor-cum-musician-cum-bandleader opens up about his desire to help shape the future of technology and the world we live in.
Charles Maggio From Rorschach
We thought it might be interesting to talk to Charles Maggio, head yeller of seminal hardcore punks Rorschach, since, you know, their brutal melding of hardcore and metal pretty much altered the trajectory of punk music in America and all that jazz.
A Gay, Orthodox Jewish R&b Singer
I've known Ari Gold since we were ten. We went to an Orthodox Jewish Yeshiva together. He was my first big crush because he sang jingles for TV commercials and we both loved Madonna, which, in the Orthodox community, automatically made us freaks. And...
A Swedish Jazz-improv Singer Who Sings All Crazy
Our new favorite singer is Lindha Kallerdahl, a Swedish chanteuse who combines pretty, quiet singing with these improvisational vocal stylings that, honestly, we're having a hard time describing. It's like a little bit of every kind of sound that a...
Michael Rother
Michael Rother was a founding member of the bands NEU! and Harmonia, and played in an early incarnation of Kraftwerk. Since the break up of these projects in the late 70s he has released a steady flow of solo albums.
Eric Wood From Man Is The Bastard
It's hard to imagine how a band making songs played at either hyper or glacial speeds (never midtempo) with two basses and song titles like "Screwdriver in the Urethra of Thomas Lenz," all played through speakers made out of salvaged junk, ever failed...
My Big Sister, Who Sang For A Hardcore Band In the 90s
New Jersey-based hardcore band Fast Times was around during the mid-90s and my sister Alison was the singer.
Robert Pollard
The great thing about Robert Pollard is that while he seems pretty pragmatic and passionate about his songwriting and Guided by Voices legacy, he's also kind of fuck-off about it. He's a 50-year-old grandpa who calls his new band Boston Spaceships...
The Second Coming
Hands up who's always wished that somebody could make a record that was partly inspired by things like the traumatic stories of genocide from We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda by Philip...
New Beginnings
Larry Jon Wilson is the first person you see when you watch Heartworn Highways, the definitive documentary of the outlaw country movement of the mid-70s led by heroes like Townes Van Zandt and Steve Earle.