Nina Corcoran is a Chicago-based music journalist and photographer. Before that, she was the Music Editor of DigBoston, the city's alt-weekly newspaper, for four years. Her work has been featured in NPR, Pitchfork, RollingStone.com, Esquire, Stereogum, Vice, SPIN, No Depression, The A.V. Club, and the Quietus.
These days, nothing is going as expected, especially for Hayley Williams. The GRAMMY-winning Paramore frontperson is stuck at home in Nashville tending to a house full of plants, her bright-eyed dog Alf and the near-weekly release of singles from her debut solo album, Petals For Armor. With quarantine lockdown intensifying her already isolated headspace, Williams has ample time to stress about…
Janos Fulop never thought he would run a studio for over a decade, never mind run one so entrenched in music history. The Boston-based engineer and musician (who performs in the local hip-hop scene as The Arcitype) co-owns The Bridge Sound And Stage, a recording studio located in the heart of Cambridge. Back when he opened it, though, Fulop was wide-eyed…
If you weren't looking for it, chances are you would walk right by Armageddon Records in Harvard Square without noticing it was even there. The Boston-based record store is a staple — the kind of place that's recommended by any music junkie living there, particularly to fans of punk and hardcore — and yet its public-facing storefront is modest at…
Notoriously reclusive and yet unflinchingly candid, Sufjan Stevens has always been a bit of a music industry enigma. The 43-year-old singer-songwriter is now known for his whispering folk music and explorations into electronica, but his career began back in 1995 when he started writing music while attending college. A few years later, he created the independent record label Asthmatic Kitty with…
