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FR 161: Bill Orcutt: In Continuous Motion
The Bay Area guitarist on beauty, difficulty, and the joy of having it both ways
 • Philip Sherburne
FR 155: Maya Shenfeld on Film Scores, Field Recordings, and the Search for New Forms
The Berlin composer on her soundtrack to the Netflix documentary Cover-Up and creating a practice that can encompass Julius Eastman, punk rock, youth…
 • Philip Sherburne
FR 150: Shane Parish on Autechre Guitar, His Improbable and Virtuosic Covers Album
An epic interview with the fingerstyle guitarist about translating silicon circuits to steel strings.
 • Philip Sherburne
FR 149: Kara-Lis Coverdale on Dirt, Heat, and Otherworldly Sounds
After a long break, the Canadian musician is back—and more productive than ever.
 • Philip Sherburne
FR 148: Astral Traveling With Tim Sweeney’s Beats in Space
Five years after moving from WNYU to Apple Music, his long-running radio show is thriving.
 • Philip Sherburne
FR 146: Tusco Embassy’s “Roulette” Compilations Are Black Magic on Wax
Bee Mask, Jim O’Rourke, Demdike Stare—wherever you drop the needle, there’s no telling what you’ll hear.
 • Philip Sherburne
FR 141: Steve Hauschildt’s New Album Is a Slow-Motion Explosion of Color
The Cleveland native on his new album, life in Tbilisi, and what’s next for Emeralds
 • Philip Sherburne
FR 136: Call Super Is Tweaking Old Tools for a New Era
JR Seaton on zines, fan clubs, and their ambitious new mix CD, A Rhythm Protects Us
 • Philip Sherburne
FR 134: William Tyler Is Chasing Spirits at the Crossroads of Ambient and Folk
The Nashville guitarist on working with Four Tet, seeking catharsis, and cultivating a Southern strain of hauntology
 • Philip Sherburne
FR 131: Sam Slater on Soundtracking Life and Death on Ukraine’s Front Lines
The UK composer’s score adds emotional layers to Mstyslav Chernov’s harrowing documentary 2000 Meters to Andriivka.
 • Philip Sherburne
FR 130: This ’90s Zine Lays Bare the Roots of U.S. Rave History
Peter Wohelski’s TRiP Magazeen is a lost snapshot of progressive electronic culture in its infancy
 • Philip Sherburne
FR 128: Avalon Emerson Is Saving Dance Music From Context Collapse
The perpetual emotion machinist on DJ edits, festival culture, and the anticipated return of her electro-pop project, the Charm.
 • Philip Sherburne
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