Trusting the Band Chaos with Hen Ogledd
Hen Ogledd's four members trace how a shared songwriting chaos, competing disciplines, and vocals in Welsh and Scots came together on their latest album, 'Discombobulated.'
An Honest Voice — Eliana Glass on Spontaneity, Technique, and Nina Simone
Around the release of 'E at Home,' Eliana Glass reflects on the limits of technique, setting aside her jazz training, and Nina Simone's case for making someone else's song completely your own.
Tom Skinner's Silhouette Music
The drummer behind Sons of Kemet and The Smile brought his acoustic ensemble to Big Ears, where he discussed 'Kaleidoscopic Visions,' the intentional instrumentation that gives it depth, and the community that makes his music possible.
DoYeon Kim and the Lives of the Gayageum
Korean gayageum player DoYeon Kim discusses how her apprenticeship in traditional music led her to improvisation, her instrument-damaging technique, and why she occasionally screams at her audience.
Servants of Music — The Folk Theater of YAGÓDY
Ukrainian folk ensemble YAGÓDY discuss songs handed down across generations, lyrics using invented phonetic samples, and the theatrical instincts behind their performance at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville.
From Default to Deliberate — Learning to Listen with Winged Wheel
On their third album, 'Desert So Green,' the six-piece collective reflects on the slow build of musical trust, the discipline of leaving space, and what it means to stop defaulting and start deciding.
Drifting Through the Normandy Haze with wavepool
The French band discusses 'Crayola,' their latest EP of shoegaze-inflected dream pop that transforms fleeting observations and unreliable memories into songs as gray and intimate as their Normandy hometown.
Exiled in Hydra — Inside Westerman's Greek Island Sessions
Producer Marta Salogni and a rotating cast of musicians joined Westerman at an 18th-century mansion on Hydra to record 'A Jackal's Wedding,' an album where high ceilings and creative limitation were as vital as the songs themselves.
Sessa Finds São Paulo's Rhythm in the Cosmic Ordinary
Three years of sessions in São Paulo yielded 'Pequena Vertigem de Amor,' an album born from the submarine days of early fatherhood and the vertigo between extraordinary love and ordinary routine.
Distortion, Disruption, and Dundalk — Just Mustard in 3D
Katie Ball and David Noonan explain how Just Mustard's third album, 'We Were Just Here,' pushes guitars past recognition and why growing up in Ireland's DIY scene infuses their musical ethos with attitude.
Living Hour and the Perimeter of Yearning
Sam Sarty and Gilad Carroll discuss their Winnipeg roots, the making of 'Internal Drone Infinity', and how the band transforms isolation and distance into thoughtful dream pop that leaves space for memory and the quiet work of getting better.
Pain Magazine's 'Violent God' and the Radical Urgency of DIY
The collaboration between industrial techno artists Maelstrom and Louisahhh and post-hardcore band Birds in Row resulted in 'Violent God,' a record born from the belief that if you're not enjoying the process, what are you doing?