Interview Magazine - Most Recent Music Items

The xx

By Matt Diehl Photography Sebastian Kim — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:10:58 +0100

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.

VV Brown

By Matt Diehl Photography Tom Brown — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:10:15 +0100

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.

Lady Gaga

By Interview Photography Matthew Williams — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:57:31 +0100

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

Mike Bones

By T. Cole Rachel Photography Andreas Laszlo Konrath — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:32:36 +0100

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.

Michael Jackson

By Andy Warhol, Bob Colacello, Pharrell Williams — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:23:57 +0100

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.

The New New York Noise

By T. Cole Rachel Photography Stephen Rose — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:49:24 +0100

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.

Dave Gahan

By Chloë Sevigny Photography Willy Vanderperre — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:18:20 +0100

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?

Jamie Bochert

By Kim Gordon Photography Daniel Jackson — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:06:34 +0100

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.

The Hugs

By Paige Powell Photography Gus Van Sant — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:00:29 +0100

The Hugs are a rock band that’s vying to restore the Pacific Northwest to its grungy glory.

Brit Pop Girls

By Alex Needham Photography David Bailey — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100

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.

Amanda Blank

By T Cole Rachel Photography Beau Grealy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:36:46 +0100

Amanda Blank is contending for the title of breakout female pop rapper of 2009. Only her message isn't about the mean streets. It's all about love.

Crocodiles

By T Cole Rachel Photography Lukas Wassmann — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Crocodiles may sound like a pair of goth badasses ready to pick fights on California beaches, but they are really just a couple of guys trying to make as much noise as possible.

Florence Welch

By Alex Needham Photography Jacob Sutton — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:30:28 +0100

Florence and the Machine is fronted by a lady who sings the blues—but this Londoner is art-schooled, so her blues likely have shades of azure, cerulean, sapphire, and ultramarine.

Esser

By Alex Needham Photography Niall O'Brien — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:24:15 +0100

Ben Esser has the biggest quiff in British music since Morrissey. His electro-pop career is getting pretty big too.

Jarvis Cocker

By Wes Anderson Photography Jean-Baptiste Mondino — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:23:56 +0100

Jarvis Cocker, preeminent rock-star showman and bard of the English common life, on the making of his new album, the joys of Wikipedia, the perils of young lust, and the crises of middle age.

Rufus Wainwright

By Caryn Ganz Photography Daniel Jackson — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:47:14 +0100

After releasing six albums, appearing in a handful of films, and single-handedly resurrecting the songbook of Judy Garland, Rufus Wainwright took the next logical step: He spent three years writing a two-hour opera. But Prima Donna, which will premiere this July at the Manchester International Festival in England, isn’t the only bizarre career move Wainwright has taken lately.

Cyndi Lauper

By Alan Cumming Photography Michael Lavine — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:04:42 +0100

Cyndi Lauper skyrocketed to fame in 1984 on the strength of her four-octave vocal range, zany persona, ragtag wardrobe, and multicolored hair. In the intervening decades her seemingly do-it-yourself image and iconoclastic career have attracted a legion of fans in the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities, which have always embraced her as a sort of kindred spirit. Lauper has always reciprocated their affection, but this month she's got a special surprise in store: the launch of a three-week, 15-city True Colors tour to benefit the Human Rights Campaign, during which she'll share the stage with a roster of topflight talents. The tour kicks off in Las Vegas on June 8.

Bjork

Photography Spike Jonze — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:41:32 +0100

Archival photos of Bjork.

Bjork

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Björk doesn’t just make art—she lives it. Her creative world is a multifaceted operation, filled with records, films, books, clothes, and experimental multimedia concert shows. She even lives with an artist—the ultimate commitment.

Moby

By Neil Strauss Photography David LaChapelle — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

They said it couldn't be done, a massive hit that's intelligent, visionary, conceptual, and spiritual. Then along came Moby.