Mike Pursley

Einstürzende Neubauten Discuss Their Improvised Utopias

Einstürzende Neubauten Discuss Their Improvised Utopias

Well into their fourth decade, industrial pioneers Einstürzende Neubauten continue to experiment and transform. Blixa Bargeld chats about their creative process.

Six Organs of Admittance’s Ben Chasny on Guitar Solos and Cosmic Journeys

Six Organs of Admittance’s Ben Chasny on Guitar Solos and Cosmic Journeys

Ben Chasny’s latest Six Organs of Admittance release is the project’s most cosmic (and guitar-shredding) journey yet.

Blanck Mass on Handling the Misery on the Way to a Blessing

Blanck Mass on Handling the Misery on the Way to a Blessing

Blanck Mass traverses an In Ferneaux of personal hardship, COVID-affected deaths, and more with the help of a complete stranger’s wisdom.

“A Certain Kind of Dream Quality”: An Interview with Donovan Quinn

“A Certain Kind of Dream Quality”: An Interview with Donovan Quinn

Donovan Quinn's (Skygreen Leopards) first solo album in seven years explores memory, love, and loss in no uncertain psych-folk terms.

Cross Examination: David Cross on His New Special, Trump, and (Of Course) Colonics

Cross Examination: David Cross on His New Special, Trump, and (Of Course) Colonics

David Cross, the alum of comedy classics like Arrested Development and Mr. Show, talks Trump, time travel, and his penchant for coming up with terrible names for his standup specials.

Always Strange No Matter Where We Are: An Interview with Gang Gang Dance

Always Strange No Matter Where We Are: An Interview with Gang Gang Dance

Gang Gang Dance multi-instrumentalist Brian DeGraw discusses the process behind the experimental band's first record (and arguably most accessible) in seven years, Kazuashita.

Interpretations of Genesis: An Interview with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

Interpretations of Genesis: An Interview with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

Ahead of Mute's Throbbing Gristle reissues, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge connects the tactics of The Second Annual Report to he/r contemporary practice.

Awesome Tapes From Africa: An Interview with Brian Shimkovitz

Awesome Tapes From Africa: An Interview with Brian Shimkovitz

What started as a blog soon turned into a label, and the founder/curator reflects on the newest reissue and the cassette's diminishing African presence.
All This I Do for Glory: An Interview With Saxophonist Colin Stetson

All This I Do for Glory: An Interview With Saxophonist Colin Stetson

Extreme soul searching leads sax stylist Colin Stetson towards the very core of his creativity.
The Gang’s All Here: An Interview With the Cairo Gang’s Emmett Kelly

The Gang’s All Here: An Interview With the Cairo Gang’s Emmett Kelly

Emmett Kelly's the Cairo Gang returns with an Untouchable album of no frills rock 'n' roll; Ty Segall guests.
Part Journal, Part Art Exhibit: An Interview with Hiss Golden Messenger’s M.C. Taylor

Part Journal, Part Art Exhibit: An Interview with Hiss Golden Messenger’s M.C. Taylor

"I had just quit my job and I think I was having a bit of an existential crisis because all of a sudden I had gotten what I had been hoping for, which is to be able to devote my days and waking hours, creative hours, to making music, to making art."
“Cats Need to Lighten Up”: An Interview with Wolf Eyes

“Cats Need to Lighten Up”: An Interview with Wolf Eyes

Noise veterans Wolf Eyes bring I Am A Problem: Mind in Pieces to Jack White's Third Man Records, and live to tell the tale.