Apocalypse: A Bill Callahan Tour Film: A personal portrait of the celebrated musician as he toured across the US

Apocalypse: A Bill Callahan Tour Film


Each track Bill Callahan crafted during his (thus far) 24-year career posses unfathomable depths of beauty and thought. There’s an ever-intimate progression within the singer/songwriter’s lyrics—moving, melodic and masterful—which all the while keeps his message…

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Interview: Sin Fang: The Icelandic musician discusses taking his sound from album to performance

Interview: Sin Fang


We’ve come to expect nothing short of wonderment from the Icelandic music that reaches global airwaves—expressive and exploratory, but with recognizable pop tinges. Sin Fang delivers all of the above and his 2013 album …

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Interview: Graph Rabbit: The minimalist duo on their craft and why they choose to perform their entire album front-to-back, with no computers

Interview: Graph Rabbit


by Naheed Simjee NYC-based Butterscotch Records recently hosted a unique event that defines its guiding philosophy. Two of the artists on the label, Mikael Jorgensen and Graph Rabbit, played a show at west LA record…

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Dukes of Chutney: Domino EP: Filmmaker Dustin Lynn reveals his musical side with a new band embracing cinematic electro surf sounds

Dukes of Chutney: Domino EP


We first came across Dustin Lynn’s visual creativity in connection with David de Rothschild’s Adventure Ecology initiative back in 2007. When we interviewed him last, Lynn was with de Rothchild on the Toxico Mission in…

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Interview: Tim Heidecker : Half of Tim and Eric talks to us about music, comedy and his new record with Devin Wood

Interview: Tim Heidecker


Sometimes just looking at a certain comedian can make you giggle, and cult alt-comedy star Tim Heidecker is certainly one of them. Heidecker and his longtime partner in crime Eric Wareheim of Tim & Eric fame have been making audiences laugh (and sometimes…

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Interview: Will Epstein: The frequent Nicolas Jaar collaborator debuts his ethereal EP “The Beautiful Moon” on music subscription service Other People

Interview: Will Epstein


Since graduating from college last year, musician Will Epstein has kept a low profile despite assembling an impressive resume. Born and raised in NYC’s TriBeCa neighborhood, Epstein went on to study electronic music at Brown University,…

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Studio Visit: Silas Hite: Inside the award-winning composer and visual artist’s creative space

Studio Visit: Silas Hite


by Mya Stark Minds that are equally as agile in the realms of art and music are rare, but not unheard of. While most of the examples are musicians who dabble in visual art, there’s the odd one like Tony Bennett whose paintings…

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Interview: Christian Tiger School: The young South African hip-hop producers on process, influence and making it in America

Interview: Christian Tiger School


Cape Town, known for its sweeping mountainous coastline, vineyards and historical role in South African politics, is home to a young, vibrant music scene making an international impression. At the foot of Table Mountain, Luc Veermeer and Sebastiano Zanasi—aka recordOutboundLink(this,…

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Comet Substance

Musical identity mash-ups in collaged band posters by a Swiss illustrator

Comet Substance

With his wide range of projects and mediums, it is no wonder why the technical sketcher turned screen printer Comet Substance uses collage in his works. Armed with a broad background, Comet Substance, also known as Ronny Hunger clips images out of their original context to create new spaces…

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Matthew Dear

The prolific musician sheds light on his new album Beams and his days in Detroit

Matthew Dear

The life of Matthew Dear is anything but black and white. Originally from Texas, the multi-faceted artist cut his teeth in the music world while studying at the University of Michigan—where he also co-founded record label Ghostly International with his pal Sam Valenti—and today calls a barn in upstate…

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