Interpol, “The Other Side of Make-Believe.” The creation of Manhattan indie rockers Interpol’s seventh album, The Other Side of Make-Believe, began the same way as so many pandemic-era records, with the band’s three members spread out across the globe and contributing their writing and recording individually. For a band known…

Many of us know a “record nerd,” a subset of aficionados with encyclopedic knowledge of and acerbic opinions about some musical niche or other. Record nerds wax poetically on the merits of the recording console at Sunset Sound, or the natural reverb in Abbey Road’s studio two. But many…

Under that moniker DJ Shadow, Joshua Paul Davis in 1996 gave sample-based music one of its first hit albums with Endtroducing. He transcended the established norms of ‘90s hip-hop by incorporating elements of ambient music, electronica and “sampledelia.” Davis found more common ground with U.K. trip-hop than West Coast G-funk—which might…

Interpol performs at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley on Oct. 6, 2018. Photos: Chloe Catajan BERKELEY — A disco ball might seem like the last thing you’d pair with gloomy post-punk music, but Interpol made it work. Against a darkened Greek Theatre, the mirrored streaks of light gave scattered…

Interpol, “Marauder.” It’s impossible to talk about 21st-century rock music without mentioning New York’s Interpol and its 2002 debut, Turn On the Bright Lights. Often considered the gold standard for the post-punk rival, Interpol’s first record helped salvage alt-rock from the depths of post-grunge. It did this by harkening back…