{"id":2456240,"date":"2020-03-24T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=972219"},"modified":"2020-03-24T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T16:24:00","slug":"interpols-paul-banks-debuts-dark-new-band-muzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/interpols-paul-banks-debuts-dark-new-band-muzz\/","title":{"rendered":"Interpol\u2019s Paul Banks Debuts Dark New Band, Muzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Muzz_byDrielyS-000485810006.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The last time we spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/paul-banks\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paul-banks\" data-tag=\"paul-banks\">Paul Banks<\/a>, his band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/interpol\/\" id=\"auto-tag_interpol\" data-tag=\"interpol\">Interpol<\/a> had put out its sixth album, <em>Marauder<\/em>, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/interpol-new-album-paul-banks-sobriety-carlos-d-717194\/\">marked by<\/a> \u201cenergy, songcraft, and unexpected warmth,\u201d as <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> noted at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Banks has taken those qualities to a new project, Muzz, a trio featuring Josh Kaufman (the producer and multi-instrumentalist in the folk group Bonny Light Horseman) and Matt Barrick (drummer of Jonathan Fire*Eater, the Walkmen, and Fleet Foxes\u2019 touring band).<\/p>\n<p>The band is out with two new songs: \u201cBroken Tambourine,\u201d a somber, meditative, organ-based ballad, and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/muzz.ffm.to\/badfeeling\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Feeling<\/a>\u201d, a spare, expansive singalong. While right now may not seem like the best time to hype a new project, these songs fit our dark international mood.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z9XmawB0t7Q?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The three new bandmates have known each other for a long time. Banks and Kaufman have been friends since they were teenagers, attending high school together before moving to New York at the same time; Barrick drummed in Banks\u2019 side project with RZA, among other ventures. They worked on the album at a studio they co-bought in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>While Tuesday is their first official release day, the band dropped \u201cBad Feeling\u201d on SoundCloud anonymously earlier this month.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> The trio hinted that there is more music to come, saying in a statement that these tracks are only an \u201cearly glimpse\u201d at their sound.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/paul-banks-muzz-972219\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time we spoke to Paul Banks, his band Interpol had put out its sixth album, Marauder, which was marked by \u201cenergy, songcraft, and unexpected warmth,\u201d as Rolling Stone noted at the time. Banks has taken those qualities to a new project, Muzz, a trio featuring Josh Kaufman (the producer and multi-instrumentalist in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2456240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-23 21:26:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}