“So yes, I’m pissed / I feel cursed with life / I can’t just exist / When I need to know I’m right.” Cursive frontman Tim Kasher delivers these lines halfway into “Free to Be or Not to Be You and Me,” the opening number from the band’s eighth studio album, Vitriola. […]
“It’s just so fluid, I just go with it,” says Gary Numan as we’re discussing how his audience has evolved over time. The “Cars” singer is approaching 40 years in the music business as a solo artist and knows better than to put stock into the aspects that he can’t control — […]
When I call Wolfmother’s lead singer and guitarist Andrew Stockdale, the first thing I’m struck by is the sound of the ocean. It’s only 8 a.m. in Australia, where he’s calling from his beachside home, but Stockdale sounds totally awake, chipper even, and is constantly laughing and joking as the waves gently lap […]
There’s a good chance you have not heard of Har Mar Superstar. Your favorite band probably has though. Minnesota-born singer Sean Tillman spent the early part of the millennium releasing tongue-in-cheek hip-hopish records and opening for a number of heavy hitters including The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Red Hot Chili Peppers. […]
“We can learn our ABCs, plus we’ve got a few books on animals and a Mr. Potatohead,” says Iceage bassist Jakob Tvilling Pless in his thick Danish accent. As I speak to Pless, he and the rest of Iceage are holed up in a kindergarten classroom inside the First Unitarian Church in […]
Building a sonic palette is difficult. Some artists spend years fine-tuning their sound with each progressive album in hopes that it will eventually lead to something great. Or, if you are Caroline Rose, you use the album as an opportunity to completely reinvent yourself and it still ends up sounding amazing. […]
Performing live is not easy. I say this not as some sort of great revelation, but because I think this fact can occasionally go overlooked. Rapping is a particularly difficult thing to do well live. While the genre contains some of my favorite albums ever recorded the same cannot be […]
Cigarettes After Sex feel like an overnight success story. The group’s mix of evocative lyrics, androgynous vocals, and gentle ambient drone seemed to have materialized out of the ether. The self-titled debut from the El Paso, Texas group was well received by critics, their songs are racking up millions of hits on Spotify […]
It’s hard to believe that Destroyer, the Dan Bejar-fronted rock group from Vancouver, British Colombia, has been around for more than 20 years now. After releasing a slew of underappreciated lo-fi, folksy albums through the late ’90s and 2000s, the group finally found commercial success and a wider audience with 2011’s Kaputt. The album’s […]
Tennis are kicking off 2018 with a month-long, cross-country tour that begins with a hometown show in Denver. I ask Alaina Moore, the group’s lead singer, if being at home makes performing easier. “It’s weird cause I know a lot of these people and I’ve waited tables for a lot them too,” she […]
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