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The New Pilots: An Interview with In A Waterfall In A Wood

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date April 10, 2026
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In A Waterfall In A Wood

Tags Brian Harding, Cormac McCarthy, Doug Malone, Dylan Thomas, Matt Christensen, Slow Planes, Tim Breen, Zelienople

Features Interviews

Lux Interna Interview: “This project needed time to find its form”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date November 21, 2025
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Lux Interna (photo: Bobby Cochran)

Album Reviews

Activity: A Thousand Years In Another Way

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date June 11, 2025
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Activity (photo: Ebru Yildiz)

Tags Activity, Bri DiGioia, Cormac McCarthy, Don Winslow, James Ellroy, Jeff Berner, Jess Rees, Moderat, Steven Levine, Travis Johnson, Western Vinyl

Album Reviews

William Fowler Collins: The Devil and the River, Volume One

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date November 5, 2024
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William Fowler Collins (photo: Marylene Mey)

Tags Aaron Turner, Cormac McCarthy, Daniel Menche, Emma Ruth Rundle, Faith Coloccia, James Jackson Toth, Karlrecords, Monika Khot, Sumac, Summer of Seventeen, Sunn O))), Thalassa, William Fowler Collins, Wooden Wand

Album Reviews

Luce Mawdsley: Northwest & Nebulous

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date March 26, 2024
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Luce Mawdsley (photo: Rosie Terry Toogood)

Tags Cormac McCarthy, Danny Paul Grody, Hell on Hearth, Jack Kerouac, John Davies, John Steinbeck, Kepla, Luce Mawdsley, Nicholas Branton, Pete Smyth, Pure O Records, Rachel Nicholas, Sean Wárs

Features Interviews

Road Dog Blues: In Conversation with Droneroom’s Blake Conley

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date December 11, 2023
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Droneroom

Album Reviews

David Eugene Edwards: Hyacinth

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date September 28, 2023
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David Eugene Edwards (photo: Loic Zimmerman)

Tags 16 Horsepower, Cormac McCarthy, Crime and the City Solution, David Eugene Edwards, Ordy Garrison, Sargent House, simon bonney, Wovenhand

Album Reviews

Droneroom: The Best of My Love

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date September 22, 2023
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Droneroom - The Best of My Love

Tags Blake Conley, Bob Holmes, Cormac McCarthy, Droneroom, Jesus’ Twin Brother, Labradford, Magpie Corsa, Nonconnah, Peter Fosco, Rabbit Hash, Six Organs of Admittance, Somewhere Cold Records, Suss

Features Opinion

Light Up the Stars: Remembering Rick Froberg

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date July 6, 2023
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Rick Froberg

Tags All Tomorrow’s Parties, Barry Hogan, Cormac McCarthy, Drive Like Jehu, Froberg, Hot Snakes, John Reis, Mimi Parker, Obits, Pitchfork, Rick Froberg, Slint, Sub Pop, Warped Tour

Features Interviews

Droneroom Interview: “I prefer it if someone else tells me what they hear and see”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date November 11, 2022
18 Comments on Droneroom Interview: “I prefer it if someone else tells me what they hear and see”

Books

Valeria Luiselli: Lost Children Archive – “one of the sharpest new voices”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date January 16, 2021
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Valeria Luiselli (photo credit: via the author's Twitter page)

Tags 4th Estate, Booker Prize, Cormac McCarthy, Jack Kerouac, Jonathan Franzen, Mercury Music Prize, Rathbones Folio Prize, Valeria Luiselli, Virginia Woolf

Album Reviews

Uniform: Shame – “a withering coalition of sounds from the darkest pits”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date September 11, 2020
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Uniform - (photo credit: Ebru Yildiz)

Tags Algiers, Ben Greenberg, Cormac McCarthy, Dashiell Hammet, Deafheaven, Denis Lehane, James Ellroy, Mike Berdan, Randall Dunn, Raymond Chandler, Sacred Bones, Steve Von Till, Sunn O))), The Body, Uniform