Q-Tip
interviewed by Touré
A Tribe Called Quest might get back together, despite the unavoidable little beefs that arise now and again. Also: meet Momma-Tip.
Joanna Newsom
interviewed by Judy Budnitz
The composer of haunting, sad, lovely, sort-of-scary and wonderfully peculiar music discusses her harp, innocence, folk music, and trucks.
Eddie Vedder
interviewed by Carrie Brownstein
He wonders aloud to the Sleater-Kinney guitarist: Might a rock audience also be a constituency?
Ani DiFranco
interviewed by Will Hermes
Ani DiFranco will continue to rock until we all start acting nicer to each other, at which point she may stop rocking for a short while.
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Colin Meloy
interviewed by Jim Roll
The Decemberists’ frontman parlays his creative writing education into a songwriting style of unusual articulacy.
David Byrne
interviewed by Dave Eggers
The avid cyclist discusses international appeal, how to avoid elitism, and why writing words is the hardest part.
Stuff I’ve Been Reading
by Nick Hornby
On
Random Family: “American people should really read this book. That’s ‘should’ as in, You’re a bad person if you don’t.”
Four-Color Comics: “Gangway for Murder”
by Michael Kupperman
Schema: A Great Chain of Being of Bands Whose Names Start with the Word “The”
by Various
