BRAD WILLIAMS TALKS ‘TALL TALES,’ ROASTS & COMEDY’S GOLDEN AGE
Comedian Brad Williams compares performing a standup set to "building a new plane in the sky as the old plane is flying." "I'm always trying to write the next special," he says in advance of his T...
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GHOST HOUNDS’ SAVNT: ‘THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF’
When Ghost Hounds frontman SAVNT recaps his 2025, it sounds like the plot of a biopic: join a band just in time to open for the Rolling Stones in stadiums, sing on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry and...
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MTN LION, FEATURING LETTUCE MEMBERS, ROARS ON FUNKY DEBUT LP
Funk for the sake of funk. That’s the mission statement for MTN Lion, the new Colorado group made up of drummer Adam Deitch and guitarist Adam Smirnoff, both from the band Lettuce, and keyboardist Jo...
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MEET BLYTHE WOODS: SHE WRITES A SONG A DAY, ‘COMING OF AGE’ DEBUT ALBUM ANNOUNCED
Blythe Woods says she is “on the cusp.” She’s answering a question about what grade she’ll enter in the fall, but it’s an apt description of her musical life, too. After releasing two singles this su...
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BEATRIX CONFRONTS HER FEARS
Photos by Ariana Santiago It's a gloomy morning in Dumbo, Brooklyn, when Beatrix arrives for an interview. The first thing we talk about is death. You see, one night earlier, during a spellbindin...
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LILY DeTAEYE LEANS INTO BITTERSWEET NOSTALGIA ON ‘ALL THE WAY DOWN’
For her third album, Lily DeTaeye didn’t want to just release a set of songs that had little to do with one another. For the Iowa-raised, Brooklyn-based artist, it was time to make a thematically con...
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STEVE SHELLEY: ‘IF I LIKE THE PEOPLE AND THE MUSIC, I’M USUALLY IN’
Drummer Steve Shelley was a driving force behind Sonic Youth for more than 25 years, in the boiler room of a group that helped build the foundation of the indie music scene that dominated the more re...
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STYX CONTINUES TO MINE WINNING BLEND OF PROG AND CLASSIC FLAVORS
A great number of music fans have misconceptions about Styx, but the band that has been together in one form or another for over 50 years sees the phenomenon as an opportunity, not a determent. “T...
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PETER HOOK REFLECTS ON NEW ORDER, JOY DIVISION AND ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION
Growing up in Manchester, the concerts Peter Hook attended represented an unreachable ideal. “When I went to see Deep Purple and when I went to see Yes, I never looked at them and thought that I c...
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NEW BOOK EXPLORES THE ‘MIRACLE AND WONDER’ OF PAUL SIMON’S ‘GRACELAND’
In retrospect, Paul Simon’s “Graceland” is venerated not just as a brilliant, timeless, genre-spanning album, but something more broadly important: a bridge between the west and Africa during the hei...
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