Riff Raff vs. Spring Breakers and Other Music Stories We <3

Here’s a round-up of the music stories Voice writers have been reading recently. Take a spin through the links below and tip us off if there’s something you like that we may have missed.

The Curious Case of Riff Raff vs. Spring Breakers [Grantland]

Another Q & A with Harmony Korine [Pitchfork]

(Read Musto’s interview with Korine, too. –ed.)

Country’s Straight Talk Feminists by Jon Caramanica [The New York Times]

Memories of the Phoenix [The New Yorker]

The Real Mother****ing Doggfather: A great profile in Spin of Jerry “Swamp Dogg” Williams [Spin]

Michelle Shocked Rambles On, Hints at Larger “Conversation” [Spin]

LA Weekly reviews the new Justin Timberlake album using K-Pop GIFs [LA Weekly]

Larry Fitzmaurice sits down with Matthew Houck of Phosphorescent and shares a beer with the soft-spoken Brooklyn artist [Pitchfork]

Noisey sent a blind guy to SXSW [Noisey]

Cool Research, New York Times — Skinny Friedman calls out one reporter for not reporting enough, hopefully gets more reporters ‘portin in the future [Noisey]

Remembering Jason Molina [Pitchfork]

Sorry, Kanye: Andrew Barber is the face of Chicago hip-hop [Chicago Sun-Times]