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Here is the final part of my interview with Amanda Petrusich, author of It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music. Thanks again to Amanda for doing this!
Amanda: Well, virtual communities are such a new phenomenon, sociologically speaking — like the last fifteen years, tops. I wonder what [...]

This is my favorite part of my interview with Amanda Petrusich, author of It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music. Enjoy.

Matthew: I think people use music in more utilitarian ways now.
Amanda: How so?
Matthew: Music gets prescribed to different roles — I listen to this to work out, [...]

Here’s more with Amanda Petrusich, author of It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music.
Matthew: How are you doing talking about the same thing all the time now? In doing interviews, I’ve found that you get asked the same things a lot and it’s easy to just zone [...]

Here’s more with Amanda Petrusich, author of It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music.
Matthew: So you went all over the country, you visited all these major hotspots. Was that something that was totally necessary for you? To have some first-hand experience?
Amanda: I thought this book made the [...]

If you read about music on regular basis, you are no doubt familiar with the work of Amanda Petrusich. She’s written criticism and features for Pitchfork Media, the New York Times, Paste, the Onion AV Club, Spin, and a long list of other well-regarded publications. She’s the author of the book about Nick Drake’s Pink [...]

Fluxcast #13 - Here’s the new podcast. By now you should know the drill — the playlist will be up on the Fluxcast site in a few days, but you can find that information in the meta data of the mp3.
Here’s the deal for this week: I’m going to be filling in for Lane Brown [...]

Kylie Minogue “Wow” - This is the little sister of “Love At First Sight.” She resembles her older sibling quite a bit — perky filter disco runs in the family — but she’s not quite as stunning and effortlessly charismatic, and as a result, she doesn’t find it as easy to assert herself and cut [...]

Hank “You Are The Child Of Betrayal” - Though the new EP by Hank may lack the lo-fi “wait, was this recorded live at some crazy party in a basement someplace?” quality of their How To Prosper In The Coming Bad Years album, the songs remain spare, concise, and catchy, with an emphasis on contrasting [...]

Iron & Wine “Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car” - Previous Iron & Wine records were lost on me, but The Shephard’s Dog is a pleasant surprise. The songs are more relaxed than melancholy, and benefit greatly active arrangements that imply a sense of movement without distracting the listener from taking in the details of [...]