“Most of Your Life is Boring”: Lime Garden is Romanticizing the Mundane

“Most of Your Life is Boring”: Lime Garden is Romanticizing...
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Lime Garden will play Kilby Block Party this week, their first American music festival, and chatted with SLUG about motherhood, female friendship and romanticizing the mundane.  … read more

“Love All” is the Beginning and the End: An Interview with Tennis

“Love All” is the Beginning and the End: An Interview...
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The Denver-based duo of Tennis produces a neo-psychedelia and surf-pop fusion that is sure to make one fall in love. … read more

Thou’s Bryan Funck Takes Himself Off The Pedestal

Thou’s Bryan Funck Takes Himself Off The Pedestal
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Thou vocalist Bryan Funck, whose initial struggle to turn the camera on instantly and comedically humanized someone I had placed on a pedestal. … read more

Suffering is Softening with Vagabon’s Latest Album

Suffering is Softening with Vagabon’s Latest Album
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Performing as Vagabon, multi-instrumentalist Cameroonian-American Laetitia Tamko is the kind of artist whose sound is always evolving. … read more

SUMAC Tours Europe and the UK by Volcanic Storm

SUMAC Tours Europe and the UK by Volcanic Storm
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Northwest-based trio SUMAC, consisting of guitarist/vocalist Aaron Turner, bassist Brian Cook, and drummer Nick Yacyshyn, establishes the voices of our ancestry. … read more

Allegra Weingarten and Etta Friedman of Momma Talk Welcome to My Blue Sky

Allegra Weingarten and Etta Friedman of Momma Talk Welcome to...
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I sat down for a virtual interview with Momma’s primary singers, songwriters and guitarists, Allegra Weingarten and Etta Friedman, to discuss Welcome to My Blue Sky. … read more

Localized: Sad Cowboy

Localized: Sad Cowboy
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Sometimes, a band is greater than the sum of its individual members, and musicians can push each other to greater creative heights through collaboration. … read more

Localized: The Lingo

Localized: The Lingo
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The music The Lingo makes is more about the experience than any message, with songs that evoke visceral mind-trips instead of imparting coherent lyrical ideas. … read more

Bartees Strange on Horror, Alternate Worlds and George Clinton 

Bartees Strange on Horror, Alternate Worlds and George Clinton 
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I got the chance to dig into the goals of Horror, his personal transformation through the writing of Horror and the greatest of all time: George Clinton.  … read more

The Linda Lindas Are Good at Being Angry, but It Doesn’t Come Easily

The Linda Lindas Are Good at Being Angry, but It...
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The Linda Lindas chatted with SLUG ahead of their first major headlining tour about the joys of playing all-ages venues and the difficulties of expressing anger as a young person.  … read more

Localized: Vape Plug

Localized: Vape Plug
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What is Vape Plug? Punk, hardcore and anything that could’ve been the title song for your PS1 copy of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. … read more

Localized: Olympic Deth

Localized: Olympic Deth
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The raw and rough elements that come from Andersen’s recording philosophy have become signature to Olympic Deth’s sound. … read more