DROP
“My List of Enemies Grows Longer”: How Real Lies Doom-Scrolled Their Way to a New Album
April 14, 2025
“Our music inhabits more of a liminal place,” says Kev Kharas of the UK duo Real Lies. “It’s electronic music about what happens when you listen to electronic music often.”
BANDMATES
Momma on Breakups, Sisterhood, and the Indie Rock Renaissance
April 7, 2025
“At the risk of sounding like an asshole, I’m proud of the entire thing,” says Etta Friedman of the band’s fourth studio album, “Welcome to My Blue Sky.”
DROP
How Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station Makes Music for the Anthropocene
January 17, 2025
Before dropping her seventh album with The Weather Station, the singer-songwriter joined us to talk about making peace with imperfection and climate collapse.
DROP
Fievel Is Glauque Wants to Make You Laugh. Then Cry.
October 25, 2024
To mark the release of the pop duo’s sophomore album, “Rong Weicknes,” Zach Phillips joined us to talk theology, song structure, and the art of an effective joke.
DROP
“We’re Like the Black Bruce Springsteen”: The Boys of Enumclaw Have Something to Say
August 30, 2024
“This feels like our first record,” says Aramis Johnson of the indie-rock quartet Enumclaw. “Like, I know the music is good and I feel proud of these songs.”
DROP
Nate Amos of Water From Your Eyes Just Can’t Stop Making Music
June 19, 2024
Nate Amos is one-half of two different bands, Water From Your Eyes and My Idea. In his new venture, the more conceptual This Is Lorelei, he’s branching out on his own.
release
DIIV Frontman Cole Smith on Streaming Monopolies and the Shoegaze Renaissance
May 23, 2024
“The analogy is really about the temperature being turned up,” the DIIV frontman says of the band’s new album. “We’re trending towards collapse or dystopia.”
come-up
How 1010Benja Went From Church Boy to Hitmaker
April 18, 2024
“What an artist does, now more than ever, needs to hark towards freedom,” says the singer-songwriter of his major label debut. “It’s not enough to have talent.”
ALBUM
How Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee Learned to Tune Out the Noise
March 20, 2024
As the singer-songwriter prepares to drop “Tigers Blood,” her follow-up to the pandemic smash-hit “Saint Cloud,” she talked to us about love, fame, and starting a Substack.