INTERVIEWS

Anger in Twitch-y Times: An Interview with John Cale

ohn Cale has had too many lives to count, but none of them seem quite the one he wanted. For decades he's seesawed between the accessible and the avant-garde, furiously searching for an intangible sound just out of reach ...

Buzzcocks Singer Pete Shelley talks Gender Fluidity, Sex, and Selling Out

Whether wryly declaring himself an “Orgasm Addict” or subverting cultural taboos with bi-curious electro anthem…

THIS CAN KILL: An Interview With Joy Division / New Order Original Peter Hook

For a living legend, Peter Hook sure knows how to keep cool. A founding member…

INTERVIEW: Talib Kweli on the Subtleties of Race in Music and the Impossibility of Selling Out

Even within the complex, persona-driven world of hip-hop, Talib Kweli is something of an enigma.…

INTERVIEW: Michael Moore Ain’t a Sicko, but He did Give Me a Cold

Writhing in bed, I snort as my chest convulses, snot dripping on the sheets. This…

INTERVIEW: Bill Maher thinks American’s are gluttonous pigs

It’s 6 a.m., way past bedtime. He’d like to lie down, but instead Bill Maher…

Critical Review: Chuck Klosterman On Chinese Democracy and the Difference between Review and Criticism

Perhaps the most anticipated album of our age, Guns ‘N Roses’ long-brewing Chinese Democracy broke its 15-year gestation…

My Rhymes Come Cold: Jurassic 5’s Marc 7 on Drugs, Meditation and Mastery

There’s a dull click, then a soft fuzz. My ear perks as the needle meets…

Clothing trends come and go faster than a super-cute fashion-week freebie. But the prominent leather…

Daybreak in Silicon Alley

General Assembly cofounder Matthew Brimer may call himself an “instigator of mischief,” but his hijinks are more computer club than class clown.