Dan Weiss
The Eight-Year Search for a Lost Ghanaian DIY Musician
A new documentary from Red Bull Music Academy shines a light on Ata Kak, the globetrotting songwriter that a music blog made an international star.
'OK Computer' Was Right About Computers
Radiohead turned toward electronic music to make their third album—which just turned 20—into a prescient techno-dystopia.
Aphex Twin's 'Richard D. James Album' Is Still Inventively Immature 20 Years Later
The British producer's 1996 album used the idea of childhood as a lens to find the humanity in an often cold style—it still feels like the future.
The Unlikely Rise of FL Studio, The Internet’s Favorite Production Software
Porter Robinson, Madeon, and Soulja Boy explain how one shockingly simple program gave 2010s hip-hop and EDM their respective sounds.
The Unlikely Rise of FL Studio, The Internet’s Favorite Production Software
Porter Robinson, Madeon, and Soulja Boy explain how one shockingly simple program gave 2010s hip-hop and EDM their respective sounds.
I Went to High School with the Leader of the So-Called Emo Revival
Catching up with classmate Evan Weiss about Sunny Day Real Estate, Miley Cyrus, and John C. Reilly.
Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains Loves Horns and High Volumes, Twitter Not So Much
Alice in Chains' surviving mouthpiece has some things he'd like to clear up.
We Saw Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake at Yankee Stadium
Welcome to Samsung World, where crushing perfection rule all and Jay Z and Justin Timberlake are totally okay with sharing a stage for two hours straight.
We Interviewed Brandon Boyd from Incubus
The Incubus leader speaks about his project Sons of the Sea, playing Ozzfest, and the possibility about an all-girl Incubus cover band called Succubus.
Beyond the Valley of the Dismemberment Plan
We speak to one of the pioneers of indie about, well, everything.
The Other Liz Phair Anniversary this Week
Our exhaustive interview with one of the greatest to ever do it about her much maligned eponymous album that found her working with Avril Lavigne's producers, got a 0.0 from Pitchfork, had a song called "Hot White Cum" on it, and just might be a misunders
D’Angelo Has Nothing to Do With Your R&B Resurgence
Neo-soul has more than one artist worth your time even if they lack an easy entry point like sampling Beach House or name-dropping Coachella.