Woodhouse Interviews

Ambient and drone do not have to be calm.

In fact, C. Diab would prefer you to be overwhelmed. Not out of any sense of maliciousness, but on his newest album, Imerro, the flooding textures, bursts of…

I went to two memorials that weekend.

I scattered my grandmother’s ashes in a bluebonnet patch and napped in bluebonnets myself before I consoled my step-brother after his mother passed. It weighed o…

There’s a train waiting for you.

No clue where it’ll take you, how long the journey will be—but the train is there for you. And Minhwi Lee is your guide. The South Korean singer-songwriter reaches in…

Existentialism usually isn’t this catchy.

Nor are songs about Virginia Woolf, black holes and the process of the body destroying itself to create a new form. But Sofia Freire finds and tempers the ho…

The end of the world is bigger than love. But only by a little.

acloudyskye took the outsized sound, low end and emotions of EDM and, in his newest album, has paired them with scintillating indie-roc…

We are haunted.

By what? We’re not supposed to know. Our past, our uncertain futures, ghosts of dead possibilities—all swirling in the background. Knoll summons but doesn’t exorcise them, it exercise…

There’s beauty in desolation.

Any drive through west Texas can teach you that. The sunlight is harsh, trying to dry and burn everything it touches. The trees are lonely sentinels, standing watch alo…

The tambourine player will usher in the apocalypse.

Or so hoped fictional punk band Cacophony. According to Gumshoes maestro and lore master Sam Sparks, the fake 9-piece band he created were the dreg…

What’s lost is found. And what’s found is beautiful.

Chandan Narayan has explored musical, natural and colonial history through 78s, the great discs of shellac that predated vinyl. His collections br…

Yonder; it’s over there somewhere.

Or over when, either way, it’s just ‘round the corner. There’s a pleasantly surreal implication to Yonder, the word, and Yonder, the album. The same could be said …

Life is short. Recovery is long.

The peak of the COVID pandemic reduced most of us to a half-space, limbo between reality and absurdism. And those who dealt with the ravages of long COVID, their bodi…

The crossover no one asked for.

Foolish Baseball is one of the finest sports channels in existence. The2010s is the nerdy music roundup site you’re currently visiting. What’s the overlap? Well, Fool…

Empathy training, through country music.

Hootin’ and hollerin’ Philly outfit Labrador play a ragged version of alt-country, indebted to the wistful nostalgia of Wilco and the lean rage of The Jayhawk…

Somewhere, a wizard has a panic attack.

It’s not an image that fantasy often uses. It feels too close to reality, the terror too mundane to grapple with. But mui zyu doesn’t just wrestle with it, she…

We know what water sounds like. But what about its absence?

Through a bruising mix of chamber, electronica and unfathomable physical sound work, composer William Ryan Fritch has hammered out the feel…