MUSIC / Conversation

Neither Amelia Meath nor Maggie Rogers is a stranger to the magical mixture of talent and opportunity. Meath met the other two ... More

An architecture dropout turned fashion major, Kilo Kish picked up music as yet another creative outlet on top of design and visual ... More

The members of Sunflower Bean have each been working at their craft for nearly a decade. As a band, Julia Cumming, Nick ... More

Established musician Mackenzie Scott, known by her stage name TORRES, and Grammy nominated folk musician Brandi Carlile first became acquainted when Scott ... More

Chaz Bear, or Toro y Moi as his music fans know him, signed to Carpark Records in 2009, months after graduating the ... More

Inspired by the punk shows they saw growing up in Los Angeles, Jennifer Clavin and her sister Jessica founded their first band, ... More

Long Beach native and rapper Vince Staples opens his newest EP, Prima Donna, by singing “This Little Light of Mine” with such ... More

I met Jenny O. in 2010 when we played in a couple of musical projects together. Immediately, I fell in love with ... More

Last year, Anderson .Paak was credited on six songs on Dr. Dre’s Compton (though his vocals appeared on more) and began his ... More

I met Kevin at a bar, or maybe a bar is where we talked about how neither of us remember where we ... More

Los Angeles-based artist and musician Liv Marsico is the founder, vocalist and drummer of Liphemra—a portmanteau of Marsico’s first name and “ephemeral.” ... More

Ezra Furman is the kind of person the old world might try to tame and dilute. This is, in part, what makes ... More

It is important to let life’s chaos seep into the creative process. Artists of all disciplines use different means to push themselves ... More

Both Manchester’s New Order and Paris’ Colder have spent a decade between albums pursuing other projects, perhaps never destined to return to ... More

Kurt Vile wrote b’lieve i’m goin down… during the nighttime, and that essential weight remains beneath the warmth of his banjo and ... More

Have You in My Wilderness is musician Julia Holter’s pronounced conversion from her academic roots to a more pop-accessible venture. Holter’s classical ... More

I’m always amazed at the chain reactions in life. This present interview with Motopony finds its roots in a random encounter on ... More

Multi-talented artists Ariana Delawari and Nicole Disson are interested in changing the landscape of storytelling, starting in Los Angeles. Delawari is a ... More

Musician Moby frequently performs his powerful and emotionally evocative music to help raise money at charity fundraisers for organizations such as The ... More

With a tonal darkness that borders on infernal, Chelsea Wolfe has been building and experimenting with nearly every genre of music since ... More

If Cayucas conjures a quixotic version of California—a golden haze of coastline, hills and palm trees—the band has accomplished what they set ... More

Last year’s Cavalo marked the first solo release of Brazilian musician Rodrigo Amarante, whose music has moved lithely between continents – from ... More

Giving up the drum machine and home-recording of her former albums, Colleen Green has taken to the studio for her third album ... More

Listen to Angel Olsen once and, without really thinking too hard about it, you’ll listen again. At first quiet, bare and lovely, ... More

In a time when people look to the newest Disney prodigy, big ass or backwoods YouTube sensation to become the next pop ... More

To look back at Jason Molina’s music career is to confront a certain mythos – not one with the veneer of fame ... More

I first became aware of William Basinski after his seminal collection of The Disintegration Loops was compiled and released via Temporary Residence. ... More