I Still Miss Someone — The Boys of Nirosta Steel
Guitar in hand and Arthur Russell forever at his shoulder, Steven Hall turns half a century of desire into harmony he mostly sings to himself.
Félicia Atkinson — A Voice in the Shadows
The French artist and Shelter Press founder discusses her live score for Les yeux sans visage, the trial of Gisèle Pelicot, improvisation as a form of survival, and the politics of touring the US in 2025.
Patricia Wolf — The Sound of All Creatures Great and Small
The ambient composer on her cassette release 'Yarrow,' frog taxis, the power of dormant seeds, and the dread of leaving one's recorder out overnight in the rain.
The Radically Earnest Legacy of Arthur Russell
Poet Reuben Gelley Newman and scholar Matt Marble join Carolyn Zaldivar Snow for a roundtable on Arthur Russell's radical gentleness, his uncategorizable output, and the serendipitous webs his music keeps spinning.
'Piano Decompositions' and the Politics of Instruments in Decay
Heidi Hart and Beate Schirrmacher's 'Piano Decompositions' follows Annea Lockwood's Piano Transplants into an argument about ecological crisis, political control, and why a burning instrument unsettles us in ways a burning forest does not.
The Minimalist Gospel of Ben Seretan and John Thayer
On 'Sunbeam Of No Illusion', Ben Seretan and John Thayer find melody where ambient music usually forgets to look, treating amplified mistakes, grass-bundle drumsticks, and borrowed sustain as the raw material of a minimalist document of place.
Plush Life — The Soft Resistance of Green-House
Olive Ardizoni and Michael Flanagan of the LA-based electronic duo Green-House talk imaginary video games, Sanibel Island shells, a stuffed sloth named Flanby, and the gentle stubbornness behind their new album on Ghostly International.
Wildflowers and Waveforms — Loula Yorke's Electric Commons
From squat parties to a cottage on a wildflower common, Loula Yorke has built a practice around beauty, ecological dread, and the feminist history that 'Hydrology' quietly carries forward.
The Fair and the Fury — On the Lilith Fair Documentary and Feminist History Worth Keeping
Meredith Hobbs Coons and Carolyn Zaldivar Snow of The Tonearm compare notes on 'Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery,' the documentary film that turns feminist music history into something closer to evidence.
Paying Attention is Wonderful — Listening Along With Lia Kohl
The cellist and composer discusses her album 'Various Small Whistles and a Song,' a collection of field recordings that transform voting lines, train stations, and strangers' whistles into intimate sonic portraits of daily life.
Lōwli's Gentle Search for Light in Dark Places
The Dublin-based songwriter reflects on her debut 'Window in the Woods,' a record that moves between lament and possibility through piano, layered strings, and seascapes recorded off Ireland's west coast.
The Anxious Optimism of Maria Teriaeva's Modular Synthesis
Five years after releasing 'Conservatory of Flowers', Maria Teriaeva revisits her Buchla-driven sophomore album with fresh perspective, explaining how anxiety and hope remain constants even as her circumstances shift from abundance to constraint.