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King Khan has been recording some up-and-coming artists in his Berlin studio, selects his favorite song about venereal diseases, and praises one of the world's most amazing kitchen appliances. [Interview: Tyler Grisham]

This month: Conversations with Wold, Withered [above], Alleged Satanic Ritual Abuse, Circle, and Gnaw Their Tongues.

With his group's outstanding new album-- which our own Philip Sherburne said heralded the arrival of "a compelling new voice in American dance music"-- finally actually out in the U.S., we speak to Hercules & Love Affair's Andy Butler about his relationship with DFA, Antony Hegarty, and the storied histories of disco, Detroit techno, and Chicago house.

We spoke to Why?'s Yoni Wolf and he wondered out loud about his sound, the origin of his words, and whether or not making music is making it more difficult to forget the past.

Former Replacements leader Paul Westerberg holds court on a career that often settled for glorious failure while the suckers and sell-outs walked off with all the fame and success.

In advance of Scarlett Johansson's debut LP-- a tribute to Tom Waits called Anywhere I Lay My Head-- we talk to the actress about road-tripping with TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek, being taken seriously as a singer, and her decision to tackle one of the most iconic vocalists of the past half-century.

On Ministry's final tour, we talk to Al Jourgensen about hockey, Cuban politics, working with Ian MacKaye and Jello Biafra, and the end of CDs.

We talk to the globetrotting Black Lips about everything from their upcoming movie project to a drink inspired by the band to the one-dimensional party image they're still sometimes burdened with.

Emmylou Harris has kept up an incredible track record for more than 30 years, since the death of Gram Parsons dissolved their historic partnership and Harris set out on a solo career, stretching all the way up to her latest, All I Intended to Be. Of course, with that voice it's hard to imagine Harris ever going wrong.