Interview

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  Maritime MCs Rap for a Better Future: "It's Really Special to See East Coast Hip-Hop Move Like This"

  PUBLISHED Oct 16, 2024

  Even as Gilbert Sewell lay on his deathbed, he still found ways to inspire his grandson, Tristan Grant. Grant, who raps under the alias Wolf...

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  Rich Aucoin Hangs Up the Parachute: "We've All Been Jumping Around — We Deserve a Sit"

  PUBLISHED Oct 15, 2024

  Rich Aucoin is packing up his parachute for the last time. After more than 15 years, his current New Nostalgia: Penultimate Tour marks the...

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  Kelly Lee Owens Finds Epiphanies on the Dance Floor and Normal Life: "Awe Is in the Everyday"

  PUBLISHED Oct 8, 2024

  "It feels like the beginning of a new phase for me, like I'm starting a 2.0," begins Welsh DJ/producer Kelly Lee Owens. Having previously...

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  Leon Bridges Comes Home, Again: "It Felt Like My Music Was Falling on Deaf Ears"

  PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2024

  If you close your eyes and listen to 'Leon,' the fourth studio album from singer-songwriter Leon Bridges, you can see Fort Worth, TX...

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  Stephen Malkmus and the Hard Quartet Discuss How They "Met on the Mean Streets"

  PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2024

  The Hard Quartet might be a new supergroup with a stellar self-titled debut album, but its members have been good friends for over 30 years...

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  Comedy "Doesn't Age Well," but Jason Reitman Celebrates the Culture Shift 'SNL' Inspired

  PUBLISHED Oct 2, 2024

  "I feel like storytelling is a mix of trying to do something new and innovative, and also play[ing] with nostalgia," writer and director...

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  Mustafa's Prophetic Poetry Holds a Mirror Up to the Pain and Beauty Around Him

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2024

  In Max Porter's novel 'Grief Is the Thing with Feathers' a father sits his two sons down to tell them their mother has died. As they sit at...

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  Torquil Campbell Reflects on 20 Years of 'Set Yourself on Fire' and "How Obsessed We Were with Sex"

  PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2024

  On September 14, 2004 a Montreal indie rock collective released a bombastic, ambitious, era-defining orchestral opus, full of open-hearted...