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Interviews
Zach Condon, September 19, 2006. Originally for Uncut.
Sufjan Stevens, September 11, 2007. Originally for Uncut.
Jack White, June 18, 2009. Originally for Uncut.
Tavi Gevinson, June 10, 2011. Originally for Spin.
Krist Novoselic, August 12, 2011. Originally for New York Times.
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Nick Kent, October 21, 2012.
Clare Grogan, November 13, 2012.
Steven Daly, November 20, 2012.
Simon Reynolds, November 27, 2012.
John Gordon Sinclair, December 6, 2012.
Josh Hamilton, December 18, 2012.
Asa Brebner, December 19, 2012.
Whit Stillman, February 19, 2013.
Andrew Bujalski, February 25, 2013.
Justin Rice, March 30, 2013.
Matt Haynes, March 31, 2013.
Joe Swanberg, April 2, 2013.
Alex Karpovsky, April 8, 2013.
Matthew King Kaufman, April 8, 2013.
Julie Klausner, April 17, 2013.
John Hodgman, April 19, 2013.
Zoe Lister Jones, April 24, 2013.
Lloyd Cole, April 26, 2013.
Clare Wadd, April 28, 2013.
Glen Matlock, April 29, 2013.
Sarah Vowell, May 6, 2013.
Nils Bernstein, May 9, 2013.
Dean Wareham, May 9, 2013.
Jonathan Ames, May 13, 2013.
Phil Wilson, May 13, 2013.
Stephen Chbosky, May 20, 2013.
Shirley Manson, May 29, 2013.
Slim Moon, May 30, 2013.
Calvin Johnson, June 3, 2013.
Joel Kastelberg, June 5, 2013.
Fred Armisen, June 6, 2013.
Jonathan Krisel, June 7, 2013.
Alan Pafenbach, June 7, 2013.
Eric Stoltz, June 18, 2013.
Stephen Pastel, June 24, 2013.
Amy Heckerling, June 26, 2013.
Curtis Armstrong, July 2, 2013.
Stefano D’Andrea, July 2, 2013.
Ryan Schreiber, July 24, 2013.
Daniel Waters, August 8, 2013.
Paul Morley, August 11, 2013.
Gina Birch, August 12, 2013.
Mark Duplass, August 29, 2013.
Lynn Shelton, August 30, 2013.
Richard Boon, September 9, 2013.
Joe Boyd, September 18, 2013.
Tricia Romano, October 18, 2013.
Nitsuh Abebe, October 22, 2013.
Sean Nelson, October 22, 2013.
Brian Ritchie, October 22, 2013.
Todd Solondz, October 23, 2013.
Tamara Winfrey Harris, October 23, 2013.
Barry Katz, November 1, 2013.
John Flansburgh, November 8, 2013.
Geoff Travis, January 5, 2014.
Devon Gummersall, January 16, 2014.
Ian Whitcomb, January 31, 2014.
Appendices
A Thoughtful but Danceable Playlist
“This Is Just a Modern Rock Song”—Belle and Sebastian
“Thirteen”—Big Star
“Birdhouse in Your Soul”—They Might Be Giants
“In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”—Neutral Milk Hotel
“Pretty Ballerina”—The Left Banke
“Here’s Where the Story Ends”—The Sundays
“We Are Going to Be Friends”—The White Stripes
“Waterloo Sunset”—The Kinks
“Handlebars”—The Desperate Bicycles
“I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives”—Television Personalities
“Still Ill”—The Smiths
“After Hours”—The Velvet Underground
“Hospital”—The Modern Lovers
“When You Wish Upon a Star”—Cliff Edwards
“I Could Be Happy”—Altered Images
“Emma’s House”—The Field Mice
“Indian Summer”—Beat Happening
“Been Teen”—Dolly Mixture
“Moon River”—Andy Williams
“Lee Remick”—The Go-Betweens
“Stretch Out and Wait”—The Smiths
“Somewhere in China”—The Shop Assistants
“In My Room”—The Beach Boys
“Love You More”—The Buzzcocks
“Nature Thing”—Close Lobsters
“Oxford Comma”—Vampire Weekend
“Happy All the Time”—The Flatmates
“Bummer in the Summer”—Love
“My Back Pages”—The Byrds
“New Slang”—The Shins
“It’s Only Obvious”—The Orchids
“Sunlight Bathed in the Golden Glow”—Felt
“Tripping Wires”—Velocity Girl
“Fill Your Heart”—David Bowie
“When the World Was Young”—Blossom Dearie
“Free to Be You and Me”—The New Seekers
“Nature Boy”—Big Star
“Christmas Time Is Here”—The Vince Guaraldi Trio
“Tonight, You Belong to Me”—Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters
“Simply Thrilled Honey”—Orange Juice
“The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness”—The Feelies
“Anyone Else but You”—The Moldy Peaches
“God Only Knows”—Beach Boys
“Sixteen Dreams”—Loop
“The Headmaster Ritual”—The Smiths
“Don’t Worry About the Government”—Talking Heads
“Butterfly”—Weezer
“Actor Out of Work”—St. Vincent
“Listen the Snow Is Falling”—Galaxie 500
“Rory Rides Me Raw”—The Vaselines
“Me and My Arrow”—Harry Nilsson
“A Place in the Sun”—Marine Girls
“Contender”—The Pains of Being Pure of Heart
“Just Like Honey”—The Jesus and Mary Chain
“Flagpole Sitta”—Harvey Danger
“Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime”—Beck
“Imperial Teen”—Imperial Teen
“River Man”—Nick Drake
“Hypnotized”—Spacemen 3
“Unfair Kind of Fame”—The Pastels
“Space Oddity”—Langley Schools Music Project
“Since Yesterday”—Strawberry Switchblade
“It’s Oh So Quiet”—Bjork
“O Valencia!”—The Decemberists
“Are You Ready to Be Heartbroken?”—Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
“Life Begins at the Hop”—XTC
“Sugar Water”—Cibo Matto
“I Put a Spell on You”—She & Him
“Lazy Sunday”—The Small Faces
“Strawberries Are Growing in My Garden (And It’s Wintertime)”—The Dentists
“Old Friends”—Simon and Garfunkel
“The Book of Love”—The Magnetic Fields
“Up the Junction”—Squeeze
“Pure Imagination”—Gene Wilder
“Through Being Cool”—Devo
“If You Wanna Sing Out”—Cat Stevens
“Elephant Stone”—The Stone Roses
“Eating Noddemix”—Young Marble Giants
“Lola”—The Raincoats
“Crash”—The Primitives
“The Lovecats”—The Cure
“Sunday to Saturday”—The June Brides
“Happy Hour”—The Housemartins
“Crashed the Wedding”—The Wedding Present
“We Will Become Silhouettes”—The Postal Service
“Lorelei”—Cocteau Twins
“Sorry for Laughing”—Josef K
“Sunny Goodge Street”—Donovan
“Timeless Melody”—The La’s
“Randy Scouse Git”—The Monkees
“The Concept”—Teenage Fanclub
“Rain”—The Beatles
“Really Rosie”—Carole King
“Coconut Grove”—The Lovin’ Spoonful
“Velocity Girl”—Primal Scream
“Lua”—Bright Eyes
“Peach, Plum, Pear”—Joanna Newsom
“Ice Cream Man”—Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
“Pilgrimage”—R.E.M.
“Get Up and Use Me”—Fire Engines
“Twist Barbie”—Shonen Knife
“Life on Mars”—Seu Jorge
“Walking the Cow”—Daniel Johnston
“L.E.S.”—Childish Gambino
“Please Do Not Go”—Violent Femmes
“My Name Is Tallulah”—Jodie Foster
“The Beatles and the Stones”—The House of Love
“When You Were Mine”—Prince
“Tally Ho”—The Clean
“Eighties Fan”—Camera Obscura
“In the Rain”—The June Brides
“Say Yes”—Elliott Smith
“Losing My Edge”—LCD Soundsystem
“Chicago”—Sufjan Stevens
“Postcards from Italy”—Beirut
“Rebellion (Lies)”—The Arcade Fire
“You Turn Me On”—Ian Whitcomb
“Pretty Flamingo”—Manfred Mann
“Daydream”—The Lovin’ Spoonful
“You Should All Be Murdered”—Another Sunny Day
“Please Rain Fall”—The Sea Urchins
“Lady Jane”—The Rolling Stones
“Lust in the Movies”—The Long Blondes
“This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody)”—Talking Heads
“Roller Girl”—Anna Karina
“Le Hotel Particulier”—Serge Gainsbourg
“Suzanne”—Françoise Hardy
“Sliver”—Nirvana
“So Sad About Us”—The Who
“Bus Stop”—The Hollies
“This Will Be Our Year”—The Zombies
“He’s Frank”—The Monochrome Set
“My Favorite Things”—Julie Andrews
A Reader, Books Both Joyful and Sad
The Catcher in the Rye—J. D. Salinger
Where the Wild Things Are —Maurice Sendak
Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl —Anne Frank
Ferdinand the Bull —Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson
The Bell Jar—Sylvia Plath
The Gashlycrumb Tinies—Edward Gorey
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret —Judy Blume
The Nutshell Library—Maurice Sendak
Charlotte’s Web —E. B. White and Garth Williams
Franny and Zooey—J. D. Salinger
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius—Dave Eggers
The Last Days of Disco with Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards —Whit Stillman
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close —Jonathan Safran Foer
Assassination Vacation—Sarah Vowell
Eloise: The Ultimate Edition —Kaye Thompson and Hilary Knight
The Doubtful Guest—Edward Gorey
Ariel—Sylvia Plath
Maus and Maus 2—Art Spiegelman
