Whitehorse Keep Their Canadian Cool to Discover Country Concept for New LP
Whitehorse duo Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland go their separate ways to write songs, especially for an emotional album like I’m Not Crying, You’re Crying.
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The Comet Is Coming Are Developing New Musical Genres
The Comet Is Coming’s sound is hard to define (psychedelic rave jazz?), landing them on confusing festival lineups. They couldn’t be happier about it.
Director Mark Pellington on His Timeless Coming-of-Age Debut ‘Going All the Way’
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Jazz Singer Catherine Russell Bridges the Century with Soul
Singer Catherine Russell is one of the best voices in the world, whether she is backing up international acts like Steely Dan or touring with her small band.
DJ Sun Discusses His Immigrant Roots and ‘Loveletter’ to Music
DJ Sun discusses how he started DJing, his process for making albums, sampling 1970s porn records, and recording an LP about discovering his Chinese heritage.
LFF’22: The Dardenne Brothers on the Life-Affirming Friendship in ‘Tori and Lokita’
The Dardenne Brothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc discuss moving beyond the label of “unaccompanied immigrant” in their humanist immigration drama, Tori and Lokita.
Too Powerful to be Merely Entertainment: Video Games and the Work of Nicholas O’Brien
Video game designer Nicholas O’Brien creates and curates in a medium starving for critical conversation.
Jessica Willis Fisher on Reclaiming Her Voice Through Music and Memoir
Country music’s Jessica Willis Fisher discusses her new memoir Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice and the process of healing trauma.
Natalia Lafourcade Finds the Heart in Darkness
Mexican pop-rock and folk singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade releases her first album of original songs in seven years and tells PopMatters all about it.
Pushin’ a Rock: Catching Up with John Oates of Hall & Oates
John Oates of Hall & Oates talks about “Pushin’ a Rock” and his other new music, men’s health charity work with Movember, and the film Gringa
Marshall Crenshaw’s Romantic Pop Marvel ‘Mary Jean & 9 Others’ at 35
Hard to find and largely overlooked, Mary Jean & 9 Others‘ romantic pop innocence outshines some of Marshall Crenshaw’s best-known work. Crenshaw discusses the record.
The Wailin’ Jennys Keep Making Sound Decisions After 20 Years of Sweet Songs
For a trio that’s been around as long as the Wailin’ Jennys, it’s time to commemorate this major anniversary and honor them with a career retrospective.
