Courtney Conlogue lives her life on the hunt, striving to compete for — and win —the World Title. A two-time runner-up in 2015 and 2016, she’s had a remarkable 2019 season, coming in first at the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach in April. The 27-year-old credits her success in part …
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Ty Segall has a pretty good reason for plotting a multi-night residency at Los Angeles’ Teragram Ballroom. “This sound silly,” the garage rocker says, “But I wanted to figure out a way to stay at home for the summer.” Segall has performed at the Teragram every Friday since July 26th, …
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I wasn’t scheduled to perform, but I was there from the beginning. There was a casualness about the format there that has never existed again. I just showed up backstage and asked Chip Monck [the stage manager and announcer] if I could help. He said, “Sure, millions of people are …
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Last Thursday, the producer Trap Money Benny — immortalized by Drake thanks to his preference for Hennessy over champagne — got on a call with Nate Fox, one of Chance The Rapper‘s longtime collaborators. Fox was in “crunch mode” trying to finish The Big Day, Chance’s long-teased “debut album.” “He’s …
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Anyone who ever owned an album by Gordon Lightfoot might not immediately recognize the man sitting on a metal chair in a dressing room at New York’s Town Hall. These days, Lightfoot only passingly resembles the strapping, mustached, square-jawed troubadour whose ballads, like “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Early …
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Vampire Weekend, Father of the Bride Father of the Bride (which is out this Friday) is so zealously detailed and meticulously contoured that you easily sink into its inventions: the whirl of country picking, surf-guitar twang and classical interlude in “Harmony Hall”; the loopy hip-hop of “Sunflower” with its creeping-vocal …
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