âI donât paint when Iâm not in the mood to paint. Iâm not a machine.â The Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and rapper Everlast is explaining his creative process, one that led to his first single in eight years, âStones.â Produced by Yelawolf, the emotive, stripped down track leans heavily on culpability and regret and evokes memories […]
âHow old do I have to be to release an album?” One of my kids, Chloe, asked me this a few months ago. Not because they have an album recorded or even a song written, but because she and her twin brother Clark have increasingly been getting into performing and listening to pop music. My […]
Fairy lights strung across Anjimile Chithambo’s wall cast a warm, pinkish glow across the singer-songwriter’s bedroom. “I know you didn’t mean that gay,” he says when I say I love the lights. “But I deeply feel like a fairy.” This sends both of us into peals of laughter, effectively breaking the ice in an instant. […]
The cover of the self-titled debut from Jason P. Woodbury & the Nightbird Singing Quartet speaks volumes: It’s modeled on the indelible design of Vintage Contemporaries, a 1980s publishing imprint that helped launch such coolly eclectic authors as Barry Hannah, Jay McInerney, Thomas McGuane and Joy Williams, and depicts a rooster crowing on a mid-sized […]
At 20, Joby Harris was fronting the hardcore band Phatso and attending art school in Pittsburgh. By 21, he was in Los Angeles, playing in bands and working for Walt Disney Imagineering. “I was working on Disneyland things by day,” he says, “and every weekend I was driving to Orange County to go to shows […]