Vice just had the pleasure of interviewing David Yow, the Jesus Lizard legend. His most recent/awkward on-stage antic occurred when he showed up late and drunk (obviously) to this year’s SXSW with his new band Qui and looking out into a sea of white faces shouted, “Where are the niggers at?”, which, uhh, didn’t go [...]

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M.I.A. kind of loses it in an interview with Pitchfork. Immediately after exchanging pleasantries and ordering pancakes she gets pretty confrontational with the interviewer, who is obviously caught off guard. She’s extremely defensive about credit for her records going to her producers, particularly Diplo, which she blames Pitchfork for insinuating. The interviewer holds his own, [...]

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs have released a stop-gap EP entitled Is Is, partly to tide fans over between records and partly to re-ignite some excitement in the band after the lukewarm reception to Show Your Bones, the band’s slick follow-up to its raucous debut, Fever to Tell. Karen O does the obligatory chat with the Associated [...]

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With a new, all-instrumental album, The Mix-Up, due out June 26, the Beastie Boys are returning a little more low-key than usual. King Adrock has an amusing back and forth with The Stranger’s Jonathan Zwickel.
Adrock on selling out:
“I don’t think that people buying records or whatever really give a shit if you make money or [...]

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The folks behind the label that Bloc Party frontman, Kele Okereke, called a “nasty vortex” speaks with the puppet master of the Sex Pistols, Malcolm McLaren. When asked what he’s listening to these days he mutters something about how it’s all good and it’s all bad and then inexplicably compares pop culture to an old [...]

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The Hold Steady - Tad (Lead Guitarist)
1.) What aspect of Latitude Festival interests you the most and why?
It’s always fun to meet other bands. And you can drink all day. And then they’ll pay us.
2.) What can people expect you to bring to the festival and do you have anything special planned?
We’re bringing a mountain [...]

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Former Goonie and current star of Tom Stoppard’s “The Coast of Utopia”, actress Martha Plimpton is an admitted “phillistine and an ignoramus with an irrational aversion to reading liner notes”, but she took some time out recently to interview current indie ‘It’ girl, Feist, for MTV News.
Feist’s response to an admittedly “ludicrous” question of [...]

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Impressive, in-depth piece on Of Montreal mastermind and resident freak Kevin Barnes over at Australia’s Wireless Bollinger. In it he discusses how anti-depressants saved his life but screwed up his marriage (thus, creating the thematic groundwork for Hissing Fauna…), his affinity for Syd Barret’s pop complexities, and his work on the next Of Montreal [...]

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Full steam ahead for Idlewild in its quest to continue sucking on Make Another World (even the title reeks of fey self-importance). The downward spiral since 100 Broken Windows has been so steep and slippery I can barely even listen to the early stuff anymore. Vocalist Roddy Woomble’s Michael Stipe impersonation has devolved into [...]

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