Interview: Singer/Songwriter Julien Baker at Outside Lands

We discuss touring and guitar geekery with the 20-year-old Memphis powerhouse

Julien Baker took the stage on a chilly August day in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. She walked out on the huge stage alone with her hollow-body Telecaster and played her first notes. The usually rowdy Outside Lands festival crowd stood quietly to let Baker play what she refers to as “bummer tunes” from her debut album, Sprained Ankle. Baker grew up in Memphis, …

De La Soul feat. Little Dragon: Drawn

From their upcoming album and the Anonymous Nobody comes De La Soul’s lush “Drawn,” featuring Gothenburg-based Little Dragon. In what might seem, at first, to be an unexpected collaboration, the two blend their familiar styles to create something very dreamy and smooth—delightfully harking back to De La’s hippie-laden early days. The album (their first as a trio in over a decade) will also feature guest …

Your Dog Really Does Understand You

Dog owners have always suspected that their pooches inherently understand them, and now several studies seem to have proved it. For those times that your pup just “got” you, it might have been because s/he was reading your expression—something that dogs have an uncanny knack for. It makes sense, since we have shared our lives with dogs for (depending on who you talk to) 16,000 …