Interview

The xx’s debut album, xx (Young Turks/XL Recordings), has been hailed as the sound of young London, and for good reason: The band started making music four years ago, when its members were all between the ages of 16 and 19.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/27/09

VV Brown makes pop music from another planet-a world that resembles ours but is a lot more fun and unpredictable. "I'm a messenger from the future, but I'm getting love and memories from the past," the 25-year-old British chanteuse explains.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/27/09

More Twisted Sister than Princess of Pop, Lady Gaga is a walking, talking, singing, fire-from-the-breast-shooting, fashion-freaking, all-out spectacle, and she's spent the past year elevating every concert, music video, and paparazzi photo op to the level of performance art. Photography Matthew Williams  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/05/09

Judging from his music—plus the fact that he lists “beautiful women and existential despair” as his main influences—it’s reasonable to assume that Mike Bones is a miserable guy. Turns out he isn’t.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 09/08/09

In August of 1982, Interview’s executive editor, Bob Colacello, interviewed Michael Jackson, then 23, at the condominium in the San Fernando Valley that the singer was renting with his family while their house nearby was being redecorated.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 09/08/09

The next great wave of New York rock acts is upon us. And while they all may have different styles, what connects them is a love of noise, an artistry for live performance, and above all, a devotion
to the spectacularly weird.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 07/27/09

Dave Gahan and his black-anthem band Depeche Mode have produced music for three     generations of beautiful outcasts. But as the group embarks on its biggest tour in years, the question arises: Can you really be an outsider if the whole world loves you?  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 07/27/09

Jamie Bochert has been a dancer, a model, and a muse to fashion designer Marc Jacobs. But her true ambition is to rock ’n’ roll.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 07/27/09

The Hugs are a rock band that’s vying to restore the Pacific Northwest to its grungy glory.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 07/27/09

From the coastal town of Blackpool to the streets of South London and beyond, a new kind of musical alchemy is occurring, as a wave of young, individualistic women have holed up in their bedrooms experimenting with synthesizers and computers, and emerged as outsize pop stars.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 07/27/09