Alan Bishop (of Sun City Girls and Sublime Frequencies) wrote about Byron Coley’s spoken-word LP, which sounds wonderfully insane.

Hyperallergic on micro-apartments.

The Short Form has a lengthy conversation between Nick Antosca and Ken Baumann on storytelling, sinister crows, and more.

Invisible Oranges profiled Deafheaven.

xTx was interviewed at The Rumpus.

Is Daughn Gibson “the Silver Jews for the Riff Raff generation”?

Another day, another time to talk Tampa: At Tin House, Kevin Sampsell interviewed Alissa Nutting.

Pitchfork on the latest album from Oneida offshoot People of the North.

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