I love this album.

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I’ve been enjoying the recent spate of entertaining Malkmus interviews in the past few days. (Lindsay Zoladz, Rob Tannenbaum, and Michael Tedder all did very nice jobs with theirs.) Anyway, here’s mine: A guided tour through his songwriting catalog, from 1992 to the present day. i’m glad his list included “Spit on a Stranger,” which was my first favorite Pavement song.

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Jlin is on an incredible streak right now. Black Origami was one of my favorite albums of last year — I sometimes feel like I underrated it by putting it at No. 4 on my year-end list — and her new work for Wayne McGregor’s Autobiography is daring in the best way. It was a delight to interview her for Rolling Stone. Click through to read our conversation!

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I’ve been a fan of Mitski’s music since I first heard her in 2014, and it’s been a pleasure to see the world catch on. Puberty 2 is as close to perfect as any album made in the last five years — I really believe it will be looked at as a landmark for a long time to come. Click through to read our conversation for Rolling Stone!

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Vince Staples is one of the best interviews in the world right now — talk to him for 10 minutes and you’re guaranteed to get, like, eight pull quotes. I spoke with him for about an hour, so click through to find out how many smart, hilarious, fearless things he said.

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Zentropy and Next Thing are two of my favorite indie-pop albums by anyone, in any decade, and Frankie Cosmos goes three-for-three this week with Vessel. It’s an incredible album, with so many verses and melodies that have been circling around my head for the last few weeks. I had a great time speaking with Greta Kline for The New York Times. Click through to read the full piece!

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I’ve been a fan of Soccer Mommy’s music since hearing For Young Hearts, the excellent lo-fi album she put out on Orchid Tapes the summer before last. Her new one, Clean, is even better — as I write in this short profile for Rolling Stone, “the songwriting is tighter, the sound is brighter, and every emotion hits 10 times harder.” Click through to read our interview.

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A few weeks back, I spent a long night walking around downtown and talking with Julian Casablancas for the new issue of Billboard. Checking one off the bucket list, as someone whose worldview and career path were significantly shaped by the experience of hearing Is This It as a high school senior in New York in 2002. Very proud to share this! Click through for the full profile.

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Beach House’s Devotion is one of my favorite albums ever, by anyone. It was an honor to speak with Victoria and Alex about how they made that dreamy classic, ten years later, for Vinyl Me, Please! Click through to read the story.

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I interviewed Merrill Garbus for The New York Times. Click through for our Q&A. Topics covered include her new album, dance music, critical race theory, Billy Joel, and Get Out.

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Dolores O’Riordan’s death came as a shock. I’d just seen her sing “Linger,” “Zombie,” and “Ode to My Family” at a corporate holiday party this past December, in what seems to have been her last public performance. She sounded great, and the songs sounded timeless. In the hours after the sad news got out, I compiled this top 10 list for Stereogum as a small tribute.

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I profiled Charlotte Gainsbourg for The New York Times’ Arts & Leisure section! This piece features scary movies, disco bliss, Jane & Serge, blog house, a Beatle and lots more. Click through to read our conversation.

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I spoke with Karen O and Parquet Courts’ Andrew Savage about Milano, the awesomely trippy album they made with Italian composer Daniele Luppi. This story has it all: Memphis Group design, Marxist theory, Dylan jokes, early Yeah Yeah Yeahs flashbacks, parenthood…It’s a riot! Click through to read the whole story.

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Earlier this month, I interviewed Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew about the new solo album he produced for Gord Downie from the Tragically Hip. That story ended up running this week after the news broke that Downie had died at age 53. It’s an immense loss, and I feel honored to have written about the remarkable way he spent his final months — making music and telling people how much they mattered to him. Downie was dealt an unfair hand, but in Drew’s words, “He really did pull off what he wanted to do, which is take that anger and turn it into love.”

Introduce Yerself is out Oct. 27. Click through to read more.

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