Into Music

Goodbye Small Head is the latest album from Ezra Furman, due out May 16 via Bella Union. Furman explains that much of the material originated after she’d suffered a bout of extreme illness.

On this episode, Brendan Murphy discusses the inspiration for the release, including his experiences as a teacher in the Boston public school system, the traumas, challenges, and lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic and how his years in the classroom overlap with his musical life.

In this conversation, Lisa Crawley discusses her relocation to North America, her audiences in New Zealand and Australia, as well as the musical notes that seem to follow her everywhere.

Rob Taxpayer is a Minneapolis, Minnesota based musician and member of the experimental punk rock band The Taxpayers.

Sally Potter’s latest album, Anatomy, is out May 2 via Bella Union. Potter, an internationally acclaimed filmmaker (Orlando, The Party) and longtime composer.

Jack Rabid recently sat for a wide-ranging conversation, discussing a seemingly endless stream of bands as well as the perils of the music industry, the enduring power of music, and why he’s still angry with Capitol Records for what they did to all those Beatles albums.

Kim House discusses how grief inspired material on the album, how being diagnosed with a chronic illness and a shakeup in her professional life led her to significant personal changes and how her thoughts on creativity have changed over time.

Peter Holsapple’s new album, The Face of 68 is a formidable entry into his already impressive discography, a collection of songs that finds him reflecting on aging, friendship, love and loss with equal measures of ferocity and humor.

Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill’s new album, Long After The Fire, is a collection of songs written by John’s late brothers Bill and Barry Cowsill. Both

Paul Rappaport is the author of the "Gliders Over Hollywood: Airships, Airplay, and The Art of Rock Promotion, out April 15 via Jawbone Press. "

Takiaya Reed is the Black, Cherokee composer and musician behind the exhilarating doom metal outfit Divide and Dissolve.

Shapes is the new release from Santa Barbara-based singer-songwriter Wryn. Over the last several years, the artist has experienced several profound personal and artistic transformations which, in one way or another, inform this new recording.

In this conversation Sarah Mary Chadwick discusses her struggles with trauma, mental health, her attitude toward alcohol (which she gave up after completing this new release) as well as the creative process itself.

Miki Berenyi recently discussed the origins of Miki Berenyi Trio, her approach to songwriting, the musical climate in which Lush existed, and a variety of other topics from her home in London.

In this conversation, Bob Lord discusses his early years playing music in Massachusetts, including being a founding member of the group that would become Converge, his entry into the classical world, playing bass up close with John Entwistle, how Dreadnaught has stayed together for 30 years, and what makes the music he releases under the PARMA umbrella stand out from other releases in the classica...

On this episode of Into Music, MikelParis discusses the origins of “guitardrumming,” his hopes for the future of the technique, and what it means to be a musical forerunner.

Mike Clark is guitarist with the Los Angeles-based band Final Gravity. Formed in 2007, the quartet adds a hard edged sound to a progressive rock base that comes to the fore on the 2024 effort Stormchaser.

Brock Geiger has appeared on nearly 50 albums in his career, highlighting his role as both an attentive collaborator and musical chameleon. Geiger’s new release moves across a broad range of musical settings that reveal the full depth of their charms with each repeated listen.

Stories I Only Tell My Friends is the latest album from Chicago-based singer-songwriter and guitarist Nikki O’Neill.

Luther Russell is a singer-songwriter and producer based in Los Angeles, California. Already a dedicated writer and musician in his teens, he formed the band The Bootheels, which featured Jakob Dylan (The Wallflowers) and Aaron A. Brooks (Moby, A.J. Croce), before founding The Freewheelers, which released three albums between 1991 and 1996.

Vicki Randle is a multi-instrumentalist based in Oakland, California who has performed and/or recorded with Aretha Franklin, Mavis Staples, Wayne Shorter, Todd Rundgren, Laura Nyro, and Herbie Hancock among others.

Seán Barna is the creative force behind recordings such as Sissy, An Evening at Macri Park, and Margaret Thatcher of the Lower East Side.

James Cook is a Portland, Oregon-based singer-songwriter whose new album, under the Captain’s Audio Project moniker, is titled Waiting for the Moon.

Mary Bue is a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based singer-songwriter whose latest release is The Wildness of Living and Dying.

Chris Greene is a Chicago-based saxophonist, bandleader, and community historian whose latest recording with the Chris Greene Quartet is Conversance. The LP marks the band’s debut on the long-running Chicago independent imprint Pravda.