Todd Olmstead

Vice — My longform Q&A with Brooklyn rapper Ka.

Mashable — Okkervil River released an 8-bit browser game accompanying the band's new album, The Silver Gymnasium.

Mashable — On the eve of the launch of Pitchfork's new film site The Dissolve, I got a first look at the site and spoke to the creators about what to expect.

Mashable — I spoke with composer Chilly Gonzales about his new album, having a song in an Apple commercial, and updating classical music for the digital age.

Mashable — I talked to Big Boi of OutKast about his album, the way social media is changing the music industry, and his tech habits.

Mashable — My world premiere of the music video for "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.

New York Times — As a founding member and primary songwriter of the Dictators, Andy Shernoff was a key figure in the downtown proto-punk scene of the 1970s. He and the band released three albums during a furtive period that also saw the rise of Television and the Ramones. Since then, he has worked as a producer and a songwriter, and played in Manitoba's Wild Kingdom alongside Dictators bandmate "Handsome Dick" Manitoba, the owner of the eponymous bar on Avenue B. The Dictators released a new album in 2001, and Mr. Shernoff contributed significantly to Joey Ramone's only solo album, "Don't Worry About Me," released posthumously in 2002.

New York Times — Todd Olmstead For many coffee drinkers, the morning brew is a ritual, an essential start to the day whether consumed at home, work, or somewhere in between. But for coffee geeks, the experience is so much more than adding fuel. It's a precise, scientific process in which beans cultivated with care on small farms in far away countries are ground specifically for that single, perfect cup. Many are coming to drink coffee with the same attention as fine wine. Joining the movement is Van Daag, with a new coffee menu featuring beans from two renowned Scandinavian micro-roasters.

Mashable — Shoutabl is a new startup that aims to help bands manage their digital footprint.

Mashable — Online music publication Pitchfork will launch its first mobile app in November, the company revealed exclusively to Mashable.

Mashable — My Q&A with Moby about BitTorrent, electronic music, and digital culture.

Mashable — 'Two Boys' at the Metropolitan Opera explores loneliness and alienation in the early-web chat room era.

Mashable — My longform Q&A with Glen Phillips of the band Toad the Wet Sprocket about their wildly successful Kickstarter campaign and being a 90s band in the 2010s.

Noisey — Underground hip-hop group Czarface talks about their second album and their growth together.

Noisey — I talked with John Davis, the member of long-running Knoxville band Superdrag about the band's demise and his new group the Lees of Memory.

Noisey — Matt Mahaffey is one of those brilliantly prolific musicians, but not exactly one who you'd know. The one piece of music of his that you absolutely do know is the Expedia dot com jingle. You might remember the Shrek soundtrack because of its Eddie Murphy rendition of "I'm a Believer," but the first song on that album is a Self song. And if you have kids, these days you're most likely to hear his music in the cartoons he's working on. But between that and his work as a writer and producer, there's been a slow drip of music as Self, his band that was once signed to a major label in the 90s.