Drug Church: “Don’t look to a musician for secret knowledge"
"We don’t assume people who work in retail are going to hit us with wisdom, and musicians are not the intellectual superior of retail workers.”
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Sharkswimmer Celebrate One Year of “Serenity” with Video for Un-Serene Opener “Eraser”
"It's like getting rid of every memory you have of that person so that you can survive."
Karate’s Crash Course in Jazz
15 tracks that helped shape Karate’s vision from the beginning.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, “No Title As of 13 February 2024, 28,340 Dead” LP review
You cannot bury your head in the sand. That’s what the new album from post-rock pioneers Godspeed You! Black Emperor tells you from the start.
Jean Dawson: The Art of Being Yourself
“When I was 21, I wanted to kill myself every day for three to four months. That’s when I started my antidepressants, and it made my depression worse."
Touché Amoré – Spiral In A Straight Line LP review
The trouble with writing a masterpiece is having to follow it up...
Reason To Believe: Crows are still making an important post-punk…
“It’s an amazing gift to be able to write music to help you through difficult times, but then you have to keep reminding yourself what you wrote about it."
Alan Sparhawk, “White Roses, My God” LP review
It's a perfectly natural response to death and loss, to the lacuna that arises from both of those things, and one that serves more as a shaking free from the past and the heavy weight of mourning than indulging in the depressing feelings it also invokes.
Album review: JPEGMAFIA – I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU
This record feels like a trip deep inside his heart and soul, a collage of inspiration and history and life lived
Last Gang Records Is Coming Full-Circle After 20 Years
"It just comes down to: Do we love it? Do we love the partners that come with it? Then let’s do it.”
Mannequin Pussy: “I was told you get less angry as you grow up, but…
"If something is called it ‘radical’, it becomes easier for the establishment to dismiss."
Joe Pernice and Jason Lytle’s Cycle-pathic Tendencies
'I’ve heard it said that cycling is like the first example of freedom that you have."
SOFT PLAY: “We need to do this together… the magic of our band is…
"I knew therapy was going to be a can of worms. I knew I had shit to deal with and it was going to be difficult, but I’m well into it now and feeling better for it.”
The Hard-Won Wisdom Of Madi Diaz | Features | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews
"This album was getting to know myself and acknowledging parts of myself that I didn’t really want to."
SeeYouSpaceCowboy: “This is the uncensored, no-holds-barred version…
"Even if the whole fucking world is drowning in fire around me, I can at least go to shows. I’ll still have that."
Friko, “Where we’ve been, Where we go from here” LP review
“Cardinal” is a lone, forlorn birdsong echoing around in the desolation of a life, if not a world, that’s been decimated and will never be the same again.
HEALTH: “The people who like us for the funny stuff and the people…
“Why is he asking me to fart on him?”
In Conversation: Squirrel Flower
"I was part of some different activism groups, and I remember the adults in charge telling us to grow up and get over ourselves. That’s something I refuse to do."
Yesterday Is Here: Tom Waits’ Disruption of the Notion of Time in the ’80s
Waits's songs are so crucially, unmistakably him that they’re not rooted to the era in which they were made, nor the time in which their characters exist.
Divide and Dissolve on the Internal and External Liberation of “Systemic”
"As a Black and Indigenous person, being in my joy and being in my relaxation in a world that’s devastated by colonization and overrun with white supremacy—my joy is in opposition to those forces."
Codefendants Are Searching for Their Golden Moment
“We’re all criminals and we’re drug addicts so I think we know pretty well to speak about these things.”
Paerish Is Making Its American Dreams Come True
"For us, it’s like running a marathon with foam legs."
Spanish Love Songs: “I’ll never be comfortable with death."
"I talk to people all the time who are like, ‘I’m comfortable dying,’ or, ‘I’m fine with death,’ and I can’t wrap my head around ever being comfortable with it."
The XCERTS: “We wanted to write songs like we were 14 again.:
“We wanted it to kick the door in and make a really big statement. We wanted it to have an impact.”
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