Divine Fits and Substitute Teaching: An Interview with Spoon’s Britt Daniel
Spoon is the epitome of a sure thing. Every couple years they release a new album of understated pop songs that, like clockwork, find themselves acting as the soundtrack for that year. Transference: 2010. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga: 2007. Gimme Fiction: 2005. Hell, when Pitchfork recently did a piece on the ten year anniversary … Read more
Democracy, Hype, and Hooters: An Interview with Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear
Few bands can make music as unabashedly “pretty” as Grizzly Bear, but it may not have been until their latest album, the acclaimed (and album-of-the-year-in-waiting?) Shields, that the Brooklyn foursome truly put it all together. On this release, which dropped just last week, the band fully fused that prettiness with an emotional and lyrical depth … Read more
Rapping, Romney, and the ‘Stache: An Interview with Twin Shadow’s George Lewis
Twin Shadow, one-time Austinist SXSW day party headliners turned pop sensations, have been making good on their early promise, distilling all that was best about 80s drama music into what is in 2012 some of the catchiest music around. Their sophomore album, Confess, builds in every way on the debut, and even features a bona … Read more
You Don’t Have to Be Stoned for This: A Feature Interview with Animal Collective
Animal Collective needs little introduction. Hipster Runoff calls them “the definitive band of the Era of Internet Music Discovery,” Pitchfork has given a shocking three of their albums above a 9.0 rating, and legions upon legions of cool kids (and critics) have gone literally insane praising them. Their so-new-it’s-not-even-out-yet album, Centipede Hz, is a throwback … Read more
B-B-B-B-B-B-Bad to the Bone: An Interview with Rock Legend George Thorogood
George Thorogood…now that’s an American. You may remember his music from Married with Children, any number of commercials, and that awesome scene in Terminator 2 where Schwarzenegger walks into the bar, steals that dude’s leather-on-leather clothes and dons the black sunglasses. The song unifying all of those visions of our wayward youths, of course, was … Read more
The Impossibility of Getting Lost: An Interview with Dirty Projectors’ Mastermind Dave Longstreth
The Dirty Projectors took a circuitous, complicated, sometimes confounding route to where they are today, but where they are today is at the tip top of what could be called “the intellectual indie.” The band, led by the dynamic and singular Dave Longstreth, broke into greater consciousness with 2009′s Bitte Orca, an album laced with … Read more
