Album Roundup: February 2016
Scott Creney03.22.16
Scott Creney’s Music Roundup is your binary guide to starting the new year like you ended the last one: listening for the better, truer mess, including looks at recent releases by Savages, Rihanna, Future, and David Bowie.
FAT WHITE FAMILY GETS TO THE MEAT OF THE MATTER
Juliet Escoria03.03.16
Juliet Escoria in conversation with Fat White Family about controversial lyrics, moms, America, and drugs.
I Just Can’t Not: An Interview with Meat Wave’s Chris Sutter
Hannah Gamble02.23.16
In an interview with Chris Sutter of the Chicago band Meat Wave, Hannah Gamble asks about work, journalism, and the Chicago scene.
ALIEN OF EXTRAORDINARY ABILITY: An Interview with Maria Minerva
Fortunato Salazar01.28.16
Fortunato Salazar sets off on a series of interviews with extraordinary people currently living in the U.S. by way of the O-1 nonimmigrant visa, beginning with Estonia-born musician and writer Maria Minerva
DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN: An Interview with David Lynch and Marek Zebrowski
Steven T. Hanley01.19.16
Steven T. Hanley spoke with David Lynch and his musical improvisational collaborator Marek Zebrowski about their haunting, exploratory album, Polish Night Music.
Being a Person is Complicated: An Interview with Chicago Rapper and Educator Lamon Manuel
Hannah Gamble01.14.16
Hannah Gamble talks with Chicago rapper Lamon Manuel of Tomorrow Kings about performance, self-loathing, Blackness, feminism, social media, and his forthcoming solo album, Music To Feel Like Shit To.
Album Roundup: December 2015
Scott Creney12.28.15
Scott Creney listens to a slew of new releases and finds—aside from Grimes’ latest—quite a bit that’s worth the bother, including Antlered Aunt Lord, PC Worship, and Lubomyr Melnyk.
Album Roundup: October 2015
Scott Creney11.24.15
Put your ear against the screen and embrace that radiation: Scott Creney’s Album Roundup is now at the Fanzine, taking a qualitative look at many of the last month’s new releases, including albums by Joanna Newsom, Neon Indian, Protomartyr, and more.
Turn Down for Everything: An Annotated Playlist
Molly Brodak11.17.15
Ready to start feeling the holiday doom? Molly Brodak provides an annotated playlist of dark vibes, spanning the gamut from the Flamingos to Metallica.
Positively Schizophrenic Power: An Interview with Actually Huizenga
Sunni Johnson11.05.15
Sunni Johnson in conversation with porn-pop video artist extraordinaire Actually Huizenga about her bewitching new short movie, Viking Angel.