Adult Swim‘s Free Download African Swim Shoots, Scores With Ubisoft
Cartoon Network’s adult animation bloc Adult Swim decided long ago that recycling the criminally underrated shows cast aside by other networks would never be enough to make its name in the crowded...
View ArticleSwervedriver’s Franklin Steps Outside the Industry
"It’s certainly been a busy old year musically," explains Adam Franklin. No kidding. After releasing a solo disc with his band Bolts of Melody, he reunited with hallowed guitar avengers Swervedriver...
View ArticleThe Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne Works Toward a More Personal Freakout
Twenty-five years ago, The Flaming Lips burst out of Oklahoma City with deafening noise and ambition to spare. Today, it is one of the most perplexing and productive bands in rock history. Front man...
View ArticleHypernova Breaks Out of the Iranian Underground
"It’s not easy getting visas to the United States when you’re from the Axis of Evil," confesses Raam, vocalist for Hypernova, which broke out of the Iranian underground in 2004 and set about making...
View ArticleMissiles Away! An Interview With The Dears
From Logan’s Run to Star Trek and onward to dystopian videos from his own band The Dears, Murray Lightburn is a sci-fi freak with a neuromantic streak. And while his postmodern soul and blues may skew...
View ArticleOne Year Later, Saul Williams Talks Niggy Tardust’s Wins, What’s Next
Saul Williams hasn’t given up on the internet, though his pricing-optional album didn’t sell nearly as well as Radiohead’s In Rainbows — the album that inspired his strategy. Nonetheless, his taste...
View ArticleMarnie Stern Has ADD, Taps Guitars, Teases Brains
Her guitar technique is a finger-tapping frenzy, her new release is a tongue-twisting run-on, and her answers to our questions are strange and short. But Marnie Stern is just a normal punker who gets...
View ArticleFull Interview: Mick Wall on Axl Rose
From 1987 to 1990, journalist Mick Wall says he covered Guns N’ Roses more — and more seriously — than any other journalist outside of America, and has authored multiple books on the band, including...
View ArticleHow To Mod a Piano: The Hauschka Interview
Here’s the full interview we conducted recently with Hauschka’s Volker Bertelman, a pianist who modifies his instruments with tacks, tape, felt, plastic wrap and other materials to alter its sound...
View ArticleHalou Shines With Cocteau Twins, Stripmall Architecture, USB Drives
From remixing Rod Stewart, DJ Shadow and Radiohead to performing a kitchen-sink set with typewriters and wine glasses under the moniker Stripmall Architecture, San Francisco’s Halou is a productive...
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