Interpol, the Warning, a Dolly Parton Deep Cut +MORE

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Interpol Return to New York to Record for the First Time in a Decade, and the City Sang Back

For Interpol, some things are still best done at home. And for this journeyman post-punk band, home has always meant New York City, even as its.....(cont.)

The Warning Aren't Kidding Around

There are a few moments when talking to the Villarreal sisters where you wonder if you're actually speaking with a modern-day Charlie's Angels.....(cont.)

Deep Cut Friday: "Down From Dover" by Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton released her fifth solo album The Fairest of Them All in 1970, when she was 24 years old. Several of her duets with her mentor Porter Wagoner had been major country hits at that point, but her solo singles hadn't done.....(cont.)

5 Albums I Can't Live Without: Jim Ward of Sparta

Best known for: I'm not really sure what I am best known for…depends on who knows me, I guess. I started At the Drive-In when I was 17-years-old with my friends in El Paso, TX. I am probably known for being the.....(cont.)

DJ Spanish Fly Built Memphis Hip-Hop By Giving Away Tapes From His Cadillac's Trunk. Now He's Getting the Credit He Deserves

"When I came down your street, you were gonna hear me coming before I get there," says Antonio Kimbrough, better known as DJ Spanish.....(cont.)

When Music + Art Collide

"Art is how we decorate space. Music is how we decorate time." I've always loved that idea. But what happens when the two collide?

As a seasoned marketer and cultural anthropologist, I take it upon myself to see as many interesting ideas and experiences that intersect with music as.....(cont.)

Country Flowers Blooms

There are two constants I appreciate about Brandon Flowers of the Killers. Whatever genre he's playing with, from synth pop to more recent.....(cont.)

John R. Miller Is No Common Folk Hero

There have been at least 100,000 people in the United States named.....(cont.)

Re-Considering Outkast's 'Idlewild' at 20

It landed at No. 25 on SPIN's Best Albums of 2006. But upon Idlewild's release, Pitchfork's Jess Harvell stated: "Initially, it's thrilling in the way that any spectacle is" citing "exhaustion" at the 79-minute mark. In 2023, Rolling.....(cont.)

Talibah Safiya on Expanding Memphis Sound, Hood Raves, and a Mixtape

Back in 2023, just as she was finishing up her breakout album Black Magic, the Memphis soul auteur Talibah Safiya co-hosted a massive party with her husband and brother-in-law. They called it the Hood Rave. "The point was to.....(cont.)

Peter Hook Breaks Down How New Order's "Blue Monday" Became an Accidental Masterpiece

"Don't you worry. Carry on." Peter Hook, co-founder of Joy Division and New Order as well as the eponym for Peter Hook and the Light, is being incredibly gracious with his time. It's 5:00 p.m. in his home country of England and he's.....(cont.)

Sylvan Esso's New Album Was Born Between a Flood and a Fire

The road to Sylvan Esso's radiant new album began with a cascade of delays and catastrophes.

Plans to begin recording in the fall of 2024 at the duo's studio in the woods outside Durham, North.....(cont.)

Robert Plant's Absolute, Invaluable Journey

I've met Robert Plant four times. First as a punky grade-schooler, sitting cross-legged on my friend's worn-out shag carpet, carefully slipping LPs out of their dust jackets for fear her older sister will wring our necks for touching.....(cont.)

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