Natalies NotInIt

2 months ago | stereogum.com | Natalie Marlin |Natalies NotInIt

From their very beginnings, Death Grips always sounded like a group far-flung from some alternate future, even when their touchpoints were rooted in a firm past. Though most of their early work was built off samples of rock and pop icons like Pink Floyd, Bad Brains, Nancy Sinatra, and Link Wray, the way they warped and inverted the samples into noisy infernos felt like an alien production language of their own.

Oct 4, 2024 | stereogum.com | Natalie Marlin |Natalies NotInIt

For as confident as Dave Portner and Noah Lennox sound on Sung Tongs, the path to the record may very well have been the most trying time for Animal Collective. “We were a little bit at odds,” Lennox (aka Panda Bear) said of the year leading up to the revered acoustic pivot for the band, which turned 20 earlier this year. “We were hitting it pretty hard.

Sep 30, 2024 | stereogum.com | Natalie Marlin |Natalies NotInIt

The sun has set by the time I park in Shafer, Minnesota, and the night is so still that you’d be mistaken for thinking no music was there at all. I can barely see what’s ahead of me with each footfall, if not for the crunch of gravel beneath my feet, and the dim light of the sculpture garden lobby ahead. As I pass through the sliding doors and emerge through the other side of the building, into the sprawling field, the drone of the instruments finally takes shape.

Jan 31, 2024 | stereogum.com | Natalie Marlin |Natalies NotInIt

We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc. There are few working actors who can claim the versatility and breadth of work Michael Shannon has under his belt.

Oct 11, 2023 | stereogum.com | Natalie Marlin |Natalies NotInIt

Katie Dey calls in from her home studio in Melbourne, nestled between the various synthesizers and keyboards and computer monitors that make up a corner of her bedroom. “If I had the money to do it elsewhere,” she says about her creative process, “I would do it. But no, it’s all in my bedroom.”Her modesty about the setting downplays the record we’re talking about, made in this very room: the stellar never falter hero girl.