MUSIC
Only Connect: Some Modern Folk
Timothy Cushing
09.12.08
There's a folkload of new folk springing forth again in America, a renaissance you might say; as it happened in 60's with Guthrie and Dylan and Baez and so on, so it is again, if however tweaked. Timothy Cushing looks at a sample of these new musicians that he, a musician himself, particularly connects with: the Avett Brothers, Ian Thomas and Langhorne Slim. Art By Danny Jock.
A Supposed Return of Disco pt. 1: New York's House of Slightly Less Jealous Lovers
Nick Sylvester
05.29.08
Is disco back in New York? Or did it ever leave? Nick Sylvester covers the flashing floor from Blondie and Sylvester to Holy Ghost, the Rapture and LCD Soundsystem trying to find the answer. Cover art by Danny Jock.
Hallelujah and Hail Satan
Mark Asch
04.25.08
It's not unusual for a rock musician—like Robert Johnson playing the blues—to have sympathy for the Devil. Mark Asch takes us to the crossroads, where Black Sabbath, The Mountain Goats's John Darnielle, and the Man of Wealth and Taste himself commune.
Tom Fischer is Dead (but still giving interviews)
Adam Ganderson
04.07.08
Though he may blog now at a site called fischerisdead, Hellhammer founding member Tom (Warrior) Fischer, one of the originators of the black metal sound, is still very alive and talking. Adam Ganderson catches up with Fischer on the cusp of the launch of a book about Fischer's short lived, legendary band.
Forget the Hits: Here is Animal Collective
Ross Simonini
01.31.08
Ross Simonini will walk a mile (or drive all the way to Utah) for an Animal Collective show. Why? Not to sing along to the hits, because the AC homies don’t play those. But they do give their all nonetheless, and always something new, on the petri dish canvass some call a stage.