“When I was making Black Sheep Boy, I felt like it was good, and I was confident that it was gonna be the best record that I’d made. That said, I didn’t expect for it to be successful, necessarily” A ...
Musicologist Christopher Small, in his book Musicking, argued that we use music as a reflection. Music presents back to us how we think that relationships should work, or what kinds of relationships ...
Whatever Will Oldham's music lacks in Appalachian authenticity, it gets back in atmosphere, and plenty of post-Oldham acts have breathed that atmosphere deep. There's something about Oldham's sound: ...
Ten years ago Will Sheff was living in a shed with tin walls outside the Austin airport. At night, his roommates were various rodents until the sun rose and his bandmates came back. That shack was the ...
In a world which resembles a computer game from bygone times, an unloved boy embarks upon a search for answers to the essential questions: How does one become happy in life? Is there a “real me”, or ...