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Paper Trail: Unconventional Idol: Kim Gordon s Girl in a Band Interviews: Specif ically Ridiculous: Nick Kroll on the Music of “Kroll Show” Show No Mercy: No Words: Sannhet’s Uncategorizable Squall Guest Lists: Alvvays 5-10-15-20: Cannibal Ox Risi ng: Mumdance Interviews: True Myth: A Conversation With Sufjan Stevens Photo Gal leries: Kanye West x Adidas Originals / Roc City Classic Secondhands: Seeing Pur ple: Prince in the ‘80s Interviews: Jeff Bridges Interviews The Proverbial Wisdom of Earl Sweatshirt At 21, Earl Sweatshirt is reckoning with the persona he’s built up so far—as a h ermit, as a recluse, as a guy who names his new album I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside—and finding a humane path through the misanthropy. By Jayson Greene. Articles Pull the Thread and Unravel Me: Waxahatchee s Katie Crutchfield Katie Crutchfield sings and writes songs with an emotional specificity that makes it sound like she’s shining a light on her most crippling anxieties. But tha t vulnerability is just one side of her story; the rest isn’t even a little frail. By Jillian Mapes. Update Fix the Future: Holly Herndon s Collective Vision Rather than using technology as an agent of isolation, this accomplished aca demic, singer, and composer looks to make philosophical electronic music that sh ines a spotlight on the cooperative nature of our modern world. By Philip Sherbu rne. Update Perennially Contentious: The Return of Faith No More After spending much of the ‘80s and ‘90s gleefully blowing up rock orthodoxy, Fa ith No More are back with their first album in 18 years. Stuart Berman talks to them about going DIY for the new record and why they don t like being called a m etal band. Show No Mercy Death Becomes Them: Bell Witch s Doomed Ghost Stories Named after a storied poltergeist, Seattle duo Bell Witch make slow, heavy m usic that evokes the suffocating experience of mourning. Brandon Stosuy talks to them about ghostly trauma, being trapped in a coffin, and pissing off death met al dudes. Photo Galleries Show No Mercy SXSW Showcase Trent Maxwell shoots our SXSW metal showcase featuring Youth Code, Indian, G naw, Kylesa, Primitive Man, Power Trip, and more. Articles Into the Black: Johnny Jewel s Dark Disco Empire Ian Cohen finds out how the mastermind behind Chromatics and Glass Candy per fected his bleary kind of cool—and how he escaped a kidnapping, cultivated an inde pendent (and lucrative) ethos, and befriended Ryan Gosling along the way. Photo Galleries Pitchfork SXSW Parties 2015 Our photographers capture moments with Speedy Ortiz, Courtney Barnett, Shami r, QT, Rae Sremmurd, and more at this year s Pitchfork SXSW day parties at the H ouse of Vans in Austin, Texas. Rising Bully By screaming out her personal doubts over crunchy power pop, Alicia Bognanno discovered a powerful road to self-acceptance. The Bully frontwoman talks to Ev an Minsker about learning from Steve Albini, loving Pinkerton, and embracing her own voice. Op-Ed Plagiarize This: A Reasonable Solution to Musical Copyright After “Blurred Lin es” Musician and writer Damon Krukowski breaks down the woefully outdated and hi ghly subjective system that we currently use to measure musical copyright—and how it can be fixed to better fit our digital era. Interviews Passion Pit’s Path Through the Darkness After opening up about his bipolar disorder three years ago, Michael Angelak os found himself flailing to respond to cynics who thought his mental health iss ues were all for show. With new album Kindred, he’s moving past bitterness and ang er with what matters most: family, gratitude, love. By Ian Cohen. Articles Tired and Hungry and Alive: 36 Hours with Courtney Barnett With her deadpan delivery and keen eye for quotidian detail, Australian sing er/songwriter Courtney Barnett provides the calm narration of a deeply hysterica l reality. By Amanda Petrusich. Articles Playing House House shows aren’t just for punks anymore—a growing number of singer/songwriters are ditching noisy clubs for cozy living room gigs. Joel Oliphint breaks down t he emotional—and financial—rewards of this new generation of fireside concerts. Update The Mountain Goats On Beat the Champ, John Darnielle uses the world of professional wrestling a s a backdrop for his songwriting, teasing out the humanity of his favorite large r-than-life combatants along the way. He talks with Evan Minsker about the reali ties of the ring, the primal satisfaction of being hit, and more. Articles The Liturgy Manifesto This Brooklyn band made their name as brainy black metal lightning rods—a rep that often overshadowed their music and split them apart. Grayson Haver Currin t ells of how they reunited for new album The Ark Work, which tries to answer ques tions about a genre that no one thought to ask. Articles Views From the 6: Inside Drake s Toronto With If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, Drake turns his hometown into a mytho logical hip-hop locale where the highways are empty and the penthouses are full. Jamieson Cox breaks down Drake s Toronto and how it fits into the city’s reality. Guest Lists Tobias Jesso Jr. The burgeoning L.A. singer/songwriter talks to Ryan Dombal about worshipping Adele and D’Angelo, his troubling toothpick addiction, serving coffee to zoo anim als, how to peel a mango without getting sticky, his secret talent, and other ve ry random stuff. Interviews Pop Sovereign: A Conversation With Madonna She built the house that so many pop stars now get to call home, but what do es it mean to be Madonna in 2015? T. Cole Rachel sits down with the 56-year-old star in this career-spanning interview. Electric Fling Let Me Be Your Radio: The Bizarro Universe of Italo Disco In his latest column, Andy Beta delves into what could be the most amazingly uncool genre ever created—Italo Disco—and how its hopeless chintziness still inspir es dance artists to this day. Articles The Connection Is Made: Elastica Goes M.I.A. Stuart Berman details how one era-defining classic—Elastica’s Britpop-bombing 19 95 debut—spawned another: M.I.A.’s Arular, which turns 10 this year. Paper Trail Unconventional Idol: Kim Gordon s Girl in a Band Jenn Pelly talks with the experimental rock icon about her revealing new mem oir, the familial trauma that led to her famed elusiveness, and living a life ou tside the margins: “Convention isn t awful, it s just not something that I really aspire to.” Interviews Specifically Ridiculous: Nick Kroll on the Music of “Kroll Show” Corban Goble talks with the sketch-comedy mastermind and his collaborators a bout their bizarre brand of musical parody, which pokes fun at Guns N Roses, Ju stin Bieber, Pitbull, Billy Joel, and more. Show No Mercy No Words: Sannhet’s Uncategorizable Squall Brandon Stosuy sits down with burgeoning Brooklyn trio Sannhet, who are maki ng a name for themselves with epic instrumental tracks as well as a positively b linding light show. Also: Listen to an exclusive stream of their new album, Revi sionist. Guest Lists Alvvays Molly Rankin, frontwoman for anthemic Toronto indie rockers Alvvays, talks t o Stuart Berman about the supreme idiocy of brunch, how Noel Gallagher taught he r to play guitar, her undying love of Celine Dion, and the most terrifying motel in Canada. 5-10-15-20 Cannibal Ox With their first album in 14 years out next month, the NYC hip-hop duo talk to Evan Minsker about the music of their lives: the transformative power of Big Daddy Kane, the poetic vulnerability of Billy Corgan, the preternatural wisdom o f Lorde, and more. Rising Mumdance Blending hard-nosed grime aesthetics with beatless atmosphere, this UK produ cer wants to open up our idea of what club music can be: “If something confuses th e shit out of you on the dancefloor—that’s a beautiful thing.” By Philip Sherburne.