I learned a new word during this interview you’re about to hear with Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker and the deeply under appreciated singer-songwriter Tucker Zimmerman: Numinous. It means “having a strong religious or spiritual quality; indicating or suggesting the presence of a divinity.” Numinous. That’s how Tucker described the experience of recording the album Dance…More
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Jessica Pratt
“I’ve always been pretty attached to my dreams,” says singer-songwriter Jessica Pratt. “[Dreams have] consistently been this means of receiving symbolic information that feels important. They do feel somewhat connected — the mental space that I’m in when I’m writing and the way that I feel in certain kinds of dreams. Sometimes you have a…More
Julian Casablancas
What an incredible joy it was to spend some time talking face to face with one of my all-time favorite artists — Julian Casablancas of The Voidz and The Strokes — for episode 113 of the LSQ podcast. We met up for this interview backstage at LA’s Orpheum Theater just after The Voidz played a…More
Madi Diaz
I kind of felt like I already knew Madi Diaz, even though we’d never met before, when we connected over Zoom this summer for the conversation in episode 112 of the LSQ podcast. That’s in part because we have many music friends in common, and I’ve heard a lot of great things about her over the…More
The Jesus Lizard – David Yow
I’ll never forget the first time I heard the music of the iconic noise-rock band The Jesus Lizard — it was more than thirty years ago, thanks to my older brother Michael playing me their song “Seasick,” from the band’s second studio album, Goat, released in 1991 and produced by the legendary Steve Albini. That…More
Remi Wolf
Remi Wolf is my favorite kind of modern artist: a young music-maker who truly doesn’t give a flying eff what genres folks might use to try to neatly categorize her sound. Remi knows that, as she once said, “genres are pretty obsolete at this point.” She continued (in this interview with Spin): “I think artists…More
Foster the People – Mark Foster
On the heels of Foster the People‘s first new album in seven years, their excellent, uplifting and highly danceable new album Paradise State of Mind, hear from the project’s creative mastermind about key moments in his musical journey: how he learned to play piano by ear as a kid, and was later inspired to play…More
Maya Hawke
On the eve of the release of her beautiful third studio album, Chaos Angel, singer-songwriter and actor Maya Hawke talks about how she arrived at her finest collection yet – a group of songs inspired by the idea of fighting one’s own guardian angel. I loved getting to ask Maya about the creative path that…More
Rodrigo y Gabriela – Gabriela Quintero
I had the best time getting to know the wonderful Gabriela Quintero of Grammy-winning psychedelic guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela for this episode of the LSQ podcast. We recently met over Zoom for a conversation exploring her personal creative evolution — things like seeing an all-girl Japanese metal band when she was 10; or discovering…More
Ty Segall
Garage rock prince Ty Segall joins the LSQ podcast on the heels of his awesome fifteenth (!!!) studio album, Three Bells, to talk about the roots of his sound: how he first fell in love with rock and roll thanks to oldies radio (Beatles, Ronettes, Kinks) and a pile of vinyl records gifted by a…More
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