POSTED // Jun 21,2012 - Scott Hansen is a patient but determined man. As the mastermind of ambient electronica project Tycho and the graphic designer also known as ISO50, Hansen speaks about carefully thought-through plans

POSTED // May 24,2012 - Alex Zhang Hungtai’s most crucial idea for Dirty Beaches didn’t originate in a bedroom, studio or other conventional station of creativity.

POSTED // May 3,2012 - “Let’s Go Surfing” is so terribly deceptive. The track, which appears on The Drums’ Summertime! EP (2009) and their self-titled debut LP (2010), yielded the first burst of attention for the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based band

POSTED // Mar 22,2012 - Cumulatively, The Beatles, Bob Dylan and The Who have been cited by bands as influences for their records approximately 34 million times.

POSTED // Mar 8,2012 - The men of Mr. Dream live in a dump. Technically, it’s an apartment, but it feels more like a cramped, grime-ridden hell—a hovel where rats roam freely,

POSTED // Feb 9,2012 - Twin Sister’s In Heaven is a record packed with people whom Andrea Estella seems to know very well. Ask the vocalist about certain characters from the band’s first full-length, and she handily rattles off some colorful details.

POSTED // Nov 17,2011 - Singer-songwriters tend to be dramatic, depressing folk. More often than not, when some guy picks up a guitar and croons by his lonesome ...

POSTED // Jul 21,2011 - Steve Choi gives interviews like he’s a politician. The RX Bandits’ guitarist/keyboardist doesn’t speak like a hypocritical scumbag of a politician

POSTED // Jul 7,2011 - Interviewing three members of Maus Haus at the same time has much in common with listening to a Maus Haus song.

POSTED // May 5,2011 - Phil Spector has spent the past decade in and out of courtrooms, but even with a murder conviction leveled against him, the ’60s girl-group sound associated with the legendary producer lives on.