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"The one thing that I know for certain is I need this music and these people to survive." (An Interview With Eric Butler of Mom Jeans.)

"The one thing that I know for certain is I need this music and these people to survive." (An Interview With Eric Butler of Mom Jeans.)

Keeping the songs unplugged feels to me like a way to stay connected to our roots.

Interviews, MusicKate WilsonFebruary 4, 2020Austin Carango, Brian Lee O’Malley, Modern Baseball, The Front Bottoms, Owen, Marietta, Sam Kless, Bart Thompson, Ryan Ellery

"I have faith that human beings are really trying their best to be good." (An Interview With Elijah Mann)

"I have faith that human beings are really trying their best to be good." (An Interview With Elijah Mann)

On one side, there’s a tumultuous danger that keeps me on my toes—but on the other there’s serenity, hypnotic sound and movement.

"I wanted this novella to feel like a story passed down for generations until the truth of what happened begins to feel like myth." (An Interview With Sammie Downing)

"I wanted this novella to feel like a story passed down for generations until the truth of what happened begins to feel like myth." (An Interview With Sammie Downing)

Some of the first sounds we hear are our parents’ voices, our family’s songs, and even years later their music can carry us home.

Interviews, Literature, MusicKate WilsonDecember 8, 2019Mark Mayer, Sammie Downing, Feist, Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Florence + the Machine, Wye Oak, Phoebe Bridgers, Choir Boy, Charlie Cunningham

"I find myself drawn to places where myth was once born." (An Interview With Tamara Jobe)

"I find myself drawn to places where myth was once born." (An Interview With Tamara Jobe)

What if we encountered our bodies the way they are and said, “this is good enough”?

Music, Literature, InterviewsKate WilsonAugust 14, 2019Elana Dykewomon, Tamara Jobe

"I turned the songwriting process into my diary at a time I was trying to develop the ability to forgive myself." (An Interview With Barroo)

"I turned the songwriting process into my diary at a time I was trying to develop the ability to forgive myself." (An Interview With Barroo)

I think of my work as being temporal by nature.

Film, Interviews, MusicKate WilsonAugust 6, 2019Monoprices, Barroo, kendall :3, Cate Wurtz, Clover & Sealife, June Lalonde, rabbit music, klslwsk

"When music comes to you as pure catharsis, it’s very dark, very beautiful." (An Interview With Taylor Robert Hawkins of Western Daughter)

"When music comes to you as pure catharsis, it’s very dark, very beautiful." (An Interview With Taylor Robert Hawkins of Western Daughter)

Music can reveal itself as simply escapism or enjoyment, but it can also be something much deeper, more abstract and substantial.

Music, InterviewsKate WilsonJuly 8, 2019Taylor Robert Hawkins, Western Daughter, mewithoutYou, Joyce Manor, American Football, Big Thief, Hop Along, The Sidekicks, The Menzingers, The Book, Songs Ohia, Yo La Tengo, Animal Collective, Fugazi, The Spirit of The Beehive, Frank Ocean

“There’s a sense of peace that comes with soft sunlight in the early mornings.” (An Interview with Lynn Werner)

“There’s a sense of peace that comes with soft sunlight in the early mornings.” (An Interview with Lynn Werner)

When combined, the arts create redemption, gratitude, connections we’d never have bridged on our own.

Art, Interviews, MusicKate WilsonMay 18, 2019Lynn Werner, Conan Gray, Hozier

"The song is not autobiographical, but fragmented bits of reality always slip in." (An Interview with Meg Olsen)

"The song is not autobiographical, but fragmented bits of reality always slip in." (An Interview with Meg Olsen)

Today, we bask in the uproarious gentleness of Issue I contributor Meg Olsen, and her latest single “Capture the Moon.”

Interviews, MusicKate WilsonMarch 17, 2019Meg Olsen

"I gave myself permission to write without asking for forgiveness." (An Interview with Rona Wang)

"I gave myself permission to write without asking for forgiveness." (An Interview with Rona Wang)

Many of the truths within this book are about the impossible debt of love and the tremendous gift of lineage.

Interviews, Literature, MusicKate WilsonFebruary 1, 2019Katherine Ho, Julie Otsuka, Jenny Zhang, Jennifer S. Cheng

“That rare moment of being so awed by a combination or chords or lines that it stops us. We want to be stopped again.” (An Interview with Jill Mceldowney)

“That rare moment of being so awed by a combination or chords or lines that it stops us. We want to be stopped again.” (An Interview with Jill Mceldowney)

There is a dichotomy that exists in poetry that allows both intimacy and distance.

Interviews, Literature, MusicStephanie ChangJanuary 22, 2019HAIM, Under the Influence of Giants, The Civil Wars, M.I.A., Lissie, Jill Mceldowney