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Lee “Scratch” Perry Lee “Scratch” Perry

Pop music would sound vastly different today if not for the sonic innovations of Jamaica. Over a half-century-long... 

Desert Noises Desert Noises

The Utah Valley’s Desert Noises may be relative greenhorns, but the empowering music they create rubs... 

Roky Erickson Roky Erickson

Rock is not dead — because Roky Erickson is not dead. The man who, some claim, invented psychedelia... 

The Klezmatics The Klezmatics

Question: What does traditional Eastern European Jewish music and folk icon Woody Guthrie have in common?... 

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Yamantaka // Sonic Titan Yamantaka // Sonic Titan

Since late 2007, the wildly eccentric duo of Alaska B and Ruby Kato Attwood has been writing and performing... 

Here We Go Magic Here We Go Magic

Here We Go Magic offers an excitedly modern approach to the tried and true ways of American folk music.... 

Reggie Watts Reggie Watts

For Brooklyn-based artist Reggie Watts, who rocks a giant ‘fro and matching full thick beard, his... 

The Polyphonic Spree The Polyphonic Spree

Five years have passed since The Polyphonic Spree last delivered their musical gospel of choral psychedelic... 

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Active Child Active Child

Yeah, I ate horse. It wasn’t bad; it was just kind of tough. It’s not really something that I would seek out for dinner. story by John Taylor Pat Grossi wishes people would stop using the word “ethereal.” He tells me on the phone, laughing, “I guess I’m sick of hearing the word ‘ethereal’ used to describe my music.” And... [Read more of this innerview]

Black Dice Black Dice

Now we’ll hear about a show and think ‘I wanna play this loft, it’s gonna be awesome’ but we can’t because we’re not 20 anymore. story by Charlie Newton Black Dice has been a noisy, shape-shafting organism since its inception in the ‘90s when its members were students at the Rhode Island School of Design. What began as... [Read more of this innerview]

M. Ward M. Ward

That’s another reason that the [new] songs sort of sound older, because they are older. story by Phil Forsyth While waiting to speak to M. Ward on the phone about his new album A Wasteland Companion and his role as an all-around indie rock guru, I saunter around the driveway to the cabin in the woods where I’ve been house-sitting and rock... [Read more of this innerview]

Xiu Xiu Xiu Xiu

I feel obligated to get tattoos of all the frowns or the smiles of all the people who have Xiu Xiu tattoos. It is going to be a lot of tattoos. story by Ian Jones As one of the most intense experimental noise rock bands of the past decade, Xiu Xiu pushes its musical performance to another level of audience experience. With mercurial frontman Jamie... [Read more of this innerview]

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