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Soko’s work is marked by a live-wire energy that’s often on the verge of chaos. She talks to Stuart Berman about her dicey relationship with creative partner Ariel Pink and her nervy new album, which recalls ‘80s outcasts like the Cure.
In the latest the-out-door, Grayson Haver Currin and Marc Masters survey some great recent records by experimental duos, interview dub/metal act Blind Idiot God, sound artist Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, and more.
With both Drake and Kendrick’s records, you hear two artists honing in on their message by exploring the outer reaches of the most elemental tool available to them—their voices.
With festival season upon us once again, we asked more than 30 artists—including ?uestlove, Jessie Ware, A$AP Ferg, and Speedy Ortiz—to tell us their greatest and/or most ridiculous summer fest stories.
"When I see something fucked-up happening, I will always say something."
— Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee
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"An ‘independent record label’ is an oxymoron. You sign an artist, and they’re no longer independent."
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"If you don’t fit into a certain type, there’s a lot of strength in just being who you are."
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In this personal essay, Mike Powell details his gender-blurring experiences with the psychedelically ambiguous art of Prince and pinpoints why The Purple One’s flashes of social utopia and sexual liberation are so timelessly subversive.
