Megan Thilmony | Jonk Music

Essential Tracks:
Built to Spill

11/15/2013

I'm fairly certain many readers' first introduction to Built to Spill is from their inevitable Modest Mouse Pandora playlist from freshman year of college. This is unfortunate only because they really should ha...

Q&A with Jace Lasek of
The Besnard Lakes

Megan Thilmony

11/06/2013

Interviews, Madison

The last couple years have produced a bumper crop of moody, murky post-rock, and the latest gem of the harvest is the meticulously elegant Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO from Montreal's Besnard Lakes. Spraw...

Lucius: “Hey, Doreen”

Megan Thilmony

10/24/2013

Songs

Have a Foster the People-sized hole in your life? Not for long. "Hey, Doreen," lead-off single for Brooklyn band Lucius' new album, Wildewoman, features all the glossy pop sheen, clean synths, and vaguely subve...

Q&A with PHOX’s
Monica Martin and Matt Holmen

Megan Thilmony

09/19/2013

Interviews, Madison

Head, heart, hips, and feet. After a whirlwind summer of globe-hopping and festival-playing, PHOX was kind enough to sit down and grab coffee with me. Singer Monica Martin and guitarist Matt Holmen theorized...

Concert Preview:
Titus Andronicus

Megan Thilmony

08/28/2013

Concert Previews, Madison

Titus Andronicus is not a band that minces words. They found a mission statement long ago, with their 2008 debut The Airing of Grievances, and have been concisely expounding upon it ever since. Airing of Gri...

Concert Preview:
The Cave Singers

Megan Thilmony

06/14/2013

Concert Previews, Madison

Folky Seattle band The Cave Singers has a strange origin story. All original members were associated with punk and new wave acts (Pretty Girls Make Graves, Hint Hint, etc.), the sonic opposite of the breezy aco...

The National: “Don’t Swallow the Cap”

Megan Thilmony

06/11/2013

Songs

There's much fuss about how "everyone" says The National is boring, stagnant, and/or essentially comprised of reanimated bourgeois corpses. I don't know who's actually saying this, though, because Trouble Will ...

Concert Review:
ON AN ON

Megan Thilmony

04/29/2013

Concert Reviews, Madison

I had never been to Regent Street Retreat (RSR), and it had been the unfortunate butt of a series of ill-informed jokes within my friend group. Naturally, then, I seized the chance to make the bar and venue the...

Concert Preview:
Thao & the Get Down Stay Down

Megan Thilmony

03/28/2013

Concert Previews, Madison

Many approach the word "quirky" with (due) caution. Hearing it evokes 500 Days of cutting your own bangs and playing ukulele (unnecessary, but chuckle-worthy, video approximation). But Thao Nguyen and her band,...

SXSW Preview: 5 Questions
with The 4onthefloor

Megan Thilmony

03/07/2013

Interviews, Madison, SXSW

Good things may come in threes, but really fun and awesome things come in fours. Minneapolis quartet The 4onthefloor's swampy blues-rock jams are perfect for rowdy booze swilling with friends. The nostalgic tun...

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