Alabama Shakes Built a Kingdom in the Chaos
[Paste Magazine] After nearly a decade apart, Brittany Howard, Heath Fogg, and Zac Cockrell found their way back to each other and into the studio for I Must Be Dreaming. By Grant Sharples Brittany Howard said she had to talk with the guys first. That was the stock answer she gave to every journalist who would inevitably ...
On the Rise: The Rat Utopia Experiment
[Line of Best Fit] Washington state circus-punk teens in clown makeup, The Rat Utopia Experiment are unleashing caustic rage to impel social change. “We have this circus theme going on. It’s all for a purpose. It’s all for a performance,” Phia Lane, the lead vocalist of The Rat Utopia Experiment, tells me. “We want you to feel ...
Interpol Looks in the Mirror and Wonders, Who’s Looking Back?
[New York Times] The band that emerged in post-9/11 New York grapples with the surveillance state on its anxious but hopeful new LP, “This Mirror Weighs a Ton.” By Mike Isaac For a band that has for so long embraced a core identity of being from New York, some of the ways the city has embraced ...
Phoebe Bridgers Comes Back to Earth
[The New Yorker] The indie artist’s new album, “Lost Weekend,” is a document of both rupture and redemption. By Mitch Therieau Phoebe Bridgers has a filmmaker’s eye for a cold open. Sometimes her songs disorient from the jump, dropping you into an alien landscape or the middle of an argument. Other times she draws you in ...
Nathaniel Rateliff Talks Newport Folk, Farm Aid, Mavis Staples, and Building Community Through Music (INTERVIEW)
[Glide Magazine] By Marc Lacatell Born in rural Missouri before relocating to Denver, Colorado, singer-songwriter Nathaniel Rateliff built his reputation in the indie-folk scene before achieving widespread stardom by blending fiery vintage rhythm & blues with soul and Americana. Fronting his powerhouse backing band, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, he gained international recognition with the ...
