Woodhouse Interviews

Nathan Stevens

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MUSIC INTERVIEWS
EVERY TWO WEEKS

An interview series with the best musical artists of the 21st century.

27 APR

heavensouls: Woodhouse Interviews

There’s a tendency to focus on a prodigy’s age and what they could do in the future. But that obscures what heavensouls has already done as a teenager. He became a RateYourMusic darling as one part of epic collage rap pranksters The Sidepeices. But his newest solo album westside trapped on its own is a remarkably self-assured, virtuosic effort, sparkling with the type of righteous anger that can lead to joy. heavensouls layers a multitude of afrobeat experiments over each other, creating these monstrous, lumbering beasts of rhythm that interlock at strange angles. Every track on the album feels like it’s on the verge of total collapse but will suddenly find a moment to mesh into something stunning. We talked to him below.

27 min
17 APR

Star Moles: Woodhouse Interview

Take the Broad-Ridge spur straight to hell. Emily Moales’ version of Philly has baristas mingling with wizards and turnpikes to celestial realms. Its the mundane and the magical, but even dragons have to pay rent. Highway to Hell follows some lost soul in a Philadelphia-shaped purgatory, accompanied by chiming and lush pianos, skittering drum parts, and Moales own dreamy voice floating above it all. We interviewed her below.

17 min
29 MAR

Ão: Woodhouse Interview

“Condemn me” It’s the first sentiment on Belgian band Ão’s hypnotic, stunning album Malandra. Thumping electronic beats are bolstered by bellowing drums, labyrinthine guitar patterns entwining, and orchestral stings adding bloody drama. Singer Brenda Corijn brings alluring darkness from her Portuguese roots, the smoldering sadness of Fado, and the hope at the center of saudade, a moving, energetic melancholy. It’s entrancing witchcraft at every turn. We interviewed them below.

24 min
13 MAR

Richard Carrick: Woodhouse Interviews

Richard Carrick makes maps. Yes, he’s a pianist, and in the middle of a trilogy of albums inspired by North Africa, but each record outlines his cartography. l’Algérie, a tribute to Algeria, his mother’s homeland, sounds like a tour of antiquity and magic. The album is overflowing with captivating rhythms and motifs that return like old friends again and again. Somewhere in-between jazz, classical, and Maghrebian music, Carrick has charted his own path. We talked to him below.

25 min
24 FEB

Euphoria Again & Dogwood Tales: Woodhouse Interviews

It’s the last day of summer, school is about to start, and the sun is setting. It still feels like heaven. Destination Heaven, the collaboration between East Coast sweethearts Euphoria Again and Dogwood Tales is a shaggy, ramshackle, lovely affair filled with the power of friendship. The swooning alt-country record is the perfect companion to long, hot nights with an Academy folding chair on a porch, friends, and beers, close at hand. We interviewed them below.

28 min
08/12/2025

Flaer: Woodhouse Interviews

Sculpture becomes painting becomes music. All is intwined. That’s the philosophy of Realf Heygate, musically known as Flaer. The multi-disciplinary artist explores family, grief, and nature in a vast swath of mediums, but they are all woven together, part of a mix media tapestry. On his newest album Translations, Heygate crafts ambient-folk, reminiscent of American folklorists Oregon, as he traces the history of his family and his mother’s work as a linguist. Through an unfolding beauty, laced with cello, guitar, piano, and chipping birds, Flaer sculpts something magnificent. We talked with him below.

23 min
13/11/2025

Laura Itandehui: Woodhouse Interviews

Si Me Ven Alegre is all push and pull, ebb and flow Laura Itandehui’s vibrant, infinitely danceable new album strolls through a bevy of Latin subgenres, always plucking the most colorful pieces for itself. Meanwhile, lovers are tossed across continent, the dead are ritualized through the power of rock’n’roll, and Itandehui’s band dances through tears of joy and pain. We talked to her below.

25 min
02/10/2025

Nina Maia: Woodhouse Interviews

INTERIA moves like a swan. Graceful on the surface, churning below to keep afloat. Nina Maia’s remarkably assured debut arrives with shimmering beauty. The production is sleek and lush by turns, her voice is pop diva perfection with a hint of smoldering, darker powers at the edges. But the influence of trip-hop detours and bursting walls of sound put INTERIA at an odd, intriguing place, even among other Brazilian pop albums that delight in flashing their myriad influences. We talked with Nina below.

30 min

An interview series with the best musical artists of the 21st century.

Creator

Nathan Stevens
Years Active

2019 - 2026
Episodes

97
Rating

Explicit
Copyright

© Nathan Stevens
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Woodhouse Interviews