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“Westworld” Composer Ramin Djawadi on Why Those Radiohead Covers Keep Coming
Despite spending the past several years composing the score to “Westworld,” Ramin Djawadi has never given much thought to what he’d do were he thrust into the HBO series’ titular location. Based on...
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The Rolling Stones’ Shameless Self-Mythologizing: Coming Soon to a Museum...
We’ve reached the point in rock’n’roll history where the next commodity is the traveling museum exhibit. For various reasons, this makes sense: aging legends aren’t touring as much or at all, the...
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Sharon Jones Led the Soul Revival to the Dancefloor
When Sharon Jones first beat pancreatic cancer into remission about two years ago, it felt like exactly how her story should go. She’d spent decades grinding away, supplementing wedding band gigs and...
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Have Yourself a Very Punk Rock Christmas
Our list of the 50 Best Holiday Songs of All Time wouldn’t have been complete without a nod to Cocteau Twins’ “Frosty the Snowman, ”a seasonal holiday classic. As it happens, the band’s bassist and...
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How to Get Involved in Politics Right Now: Take These Musicians’ Leads
What should we do in the wake of the election? A polyphony of voices will continue to suggest ways for us to counter the hate-fueled threats to rights, services, and decency that has been exacerbated...
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The Band Before They Were The Band: A Listening Guide
The Band (or at least its original formation) said goodbye 40 years ago this week, during a star-studded Thanksgiving blowout in San Francisco, captured in all its gaudy mid-’70s glory in Martin...
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“WTF Is Pop?”: Justin Raisen on Producing the Future
Justin Raisen’s name has felt inescapable as of late. Like many, I first became aware of his work as a writer and producer with Sky Ferreira’s Night Time, My Time, where he co-wrote every song. This...
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Director Barry Jenkins on the Music That Made Moonlight
Early on in what has to be the year’s best film, Moonlight, the main character—a young boy named Little—is taught how to float in the ocean by an older man, a drug dealer somewhere between a new friend...
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The 11 Best DJ Mixes of November 2016
This month's roundup of DJ mixes covers even more ground than usual—from a West African survey put together by Berlin's No Frills crew, to Andrew Pekler's attempt to reimagine exotica via avant-garde...
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No One Owns Punk: Danny Fields on Why Burning Its Artifacts Is a Terrible Idea
Just over a week ago, British punk’s defining single went up in smoke. Joe Corré, the son of punk royal couple Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood, set fire to an original acetate of the Sex Pistols’...
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Bill Murray’s Greatest Music Moments
No one has straddled the divide between music and comedy quite like Bill Murray. There are funny people who can be musical. There are music people who can be funny. From “Saturday Night Live” to...
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Smith vs. Smith: Reading the Morrissey and Marr Memoirs
Such was the critical pandemonium surrounding the publication of Morrissey’s Autobiography in October 2013 that despite my vested interest as the author of two books on the man and his work—the...
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6 Takeaways from the 2017 Grammy Nominations
It’s time to get excited about an industry congratulating itself again! The Grammys will take place February 12, 2017, with nominations announced this morning. We already knew who wouldn’t be...
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After Ghost Ship Fire, Oakland DIY Grapples With a Broken System
Aerial photos of the Oakland warehouse venue where dozens perished in a fire over the weekend resemble a rib cage parted and relieved of its heart. On Friday evening, however, the second-story of the...
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This Austin Nonprofit Is Changing the Way Local Musicians Get Paid
In the winter of 2012, Matt Ott and Colin Kendrick gathered in a South Austin backyard with some local musicians and a simple question in mind: what resources would really change the game for the...
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One of Indie Rock’s Best Poster Artists on How He Collaborates With Bands
I knew Jay Ryan’s work before I knew who was responsible for it. Bands like Shellac and Shipping News sold his silk-screened posters on the road, so after a while, I recognized these cartoon...
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The Rise, the Fall, and the Rise of Brix Smith Start
Amidst a music-memoir landscape clotted with ego and pettiness, Brix Smith Start’s The Rise, the Fall, and the Rise stands out as exceptionally warm hearted, even when it gets a little ugly. Which it...
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10 Great Songs that Subtly Sample South Asian Sounds
Earlier this year, Heems, Riz MC, and Redinho released a quintessential telling of the brown immigrant story in the form of Cashmere, their debut record as Swet Shop Boys. They’re the rap group of...
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Protest Soul: Music for Healing a Broken World
In the last few years, you hear it everywhere. After Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray; after Terence Crutcher and Keith L. Scott; after the mass shooting...
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This 28-Hour Beatles Podcast Is a New Kind of Historical Fanzine
In late 2015, some anonymous maniac began uploading installments of an 18-part podcast titled The Beatles Anthology Revisited. It’s an impressively over-the-top achievement, even by the bonkers...
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