The War on Drugs, Phish, Jenny Lewis, Rostam Batmanglij (Vampire Weekend) and...
According to Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor, Cass McCombs is “one of our generation’s most important songwriters,” and, this week, he’s taking those talents to Anti as the newest addition to their roster....
View ArticleThe Counting Crows Taught Me Not to Give a Fuck About the Critics
Today I’ll be defending the earnest jangle of California’s Counting Crows. Their septuple-platinum, T-Bone Burnett-produced debut, August and Everything After, arrived in the fall of 1993, and it...
View ArticleWhat Eric Slick (Dr. Dog, Lithuania) Learned About Writing Lyrics from Steely...
It was December 2005. I was sitting alone with my iBook in the lobby of the Best Western Windjammer Hotel in Burlington, Vermont, on my very first tour with Frank Zappa tribute act Project/Object....
View ArticleEric Slick (Dr. Dog, Lithuania) and Dominic Angelella (Lithuania) are Talking...
The Talkhouse Music Podcast is taking up residence at New York’s Samsung 837 space on Thursday, June 30, for a conversation between Eric Slick (Dr. Dog, Lithuania) and his Lithuania band mate Dominic...
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Talkhouse Music Contributors Pick their Songs of the Summer
Now is the season of fogged-up shades, oddly shaped sunburns and songs that make us want to stay outside until the last firefly blinks to sleep. As summer dawns, we asked our contributors to choose the...
View ArticleThe Talkhouse is Hosting a Steely Dan Tribute Show in New York
Here at the Talkhouse, we’re all about the voice of the artist — and the voice of the artist, it seems, really wants to talk about Steely Dan. First, Eric Slick (Dr. Dog, Lithuania) wrote a piece...
View ArticleEric Slick (Dr. Dog, Lithuania) Talks with Dominic Angelella (Lithuania) for...
Eric Slick (Dr. Dog, Lithuania) and Dominic Angelella (Lithuania) are hardcore “Danatics” — that is, Steely Dan fanatics. This summer, the guys stopped by Samsung 837 in New York City for a live...
View ArticleThe Talkies: What Were Your Favorite Talkhouse Contributors’ Favorite Records...
Welcome to the 2016 Talkies, Talkhouse Music’s year-end writers poll. We reached out to our amazing stable of contributors — all of them are, of course, musicians — and asked them to rank their ten...
View ArticleRemembering Richard Swift
Richard Swift was a singer-songwriter as well as a collaborator with an endless number of artists, including the Shins, the Black Keys, Damien Jurado, Sharon Van Etten, and many more. He died on July 3...
View ArticleLamp Lit Prose Gets to the Point
The year was 2006. I was reconnecting with Dominic Angelella, a UArts graduate who would later become my best friend and musical soulmate. We hadn’t spoken in about a year. I dropped out of college to...
View ArticleRevisited: Remembering Richard Swift
Over our holiday break, we’re revisiting some of our favorite Talkhouse Music pieces from 2018, including this one. Happy holidays! —Annie Fell, Associate Editor, TalkhouseIt was just too easy to make...
View ArticleArtist Couples Talk on the Talkhouse Podcast
Happiest of Valentine’s Days to ya, listeners! To celebrate the duality of this love-filled and oh-so-fraught time, the Talkhouse Podcast asked five of our favorite artist couples to answer two...
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