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last updated: 2 Feb 2022
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Mitski Miyawaki, born Mitsuki Laycock and performing as Mitski, is a Japanese-American singer-songwriter. Mitski self-released her first two albums, Lush, and Retired from Sad, New Career in Business, while studying at Purchase College's Conservatory of Music. After graduating, she released her third studio album, Bury Me at Makeout Creek, through Double Double Whammy. It was followed by Puberty 2 and Be the Cowboy, released on Dead Oceans. In 2021, Mitski returned from a three-year hiatus with the single "Working for the Knife” and later announced her sixth studio album, Laurel Hell.birthday: 27 September 1990, JapanGenre: Indie rock, Alternative/Indie
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[organised by release date]
do note these do not include essays or articles about mitski, and only interviews/photoshoots!
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2014
- Exclusive Song Premiere and Interview: ‘Townie,’ Mitski | Interview Magazine
- Mitski’s Indie Honesty: ‘Hype Doesn’t Play My Shows’ | The Village Voice
- Growing Up Mitski | The L Magazine
- Five weeks on the road and at home with Mitski | Impose Magazine
- Issue 54 | The Miscreant
- TAKING ALL OF MITSKI: TURKEY, PATNERS & MORE | Impose Magazine
2015
- More Mitski, please | NUVO
- THE SOUND AND FURY OF MITSKI | HYPHEN MAGAZINE
- New Noise: Mitski Is Your New Indie Rock Life Coach | Billboard
- MITSKI ON BEING AN EMOTIONAL LOSER AND ‘GIVING A SHIT’ | The Cut
- Mitski: 'I don't belong anywhere. That really affects how I write songs.' | Chicago Reader
- Mitski Talks About Her Breakout Album, Bury Me at Makeout Creek, Her First Seattle Show (Sat June 27), and More | The Stranger
- FROM PUNK TO POP CULTURE: BRIDGING THE GAP WITH MITSKI | MTV
- Mitski Record Release Show at Silent Barn | Impose Magazine
2016
- SXSW Interview: Mitski Miyawaki | SXSW
- Mitski Doesn't Want To Be “Your Best American Girl” | NYLON
- Musician Mitski Wants a Kinder Social Media Universe | Paper Mag
- WHAT COMES NEXT: MITSKI IS POISED TO TAKE OVER THE MUSIC WORLD | Brooklyn Magazine
- Meet Mitski, An Electric Folk Singer Making Sad Songs For Grown-Ups | The FADER
- Mitski - Interview | POP News
- Mitski revels in hurt to make neo grunge, but would trade it all to be happy and dull | Loud and Quiet
- Mitski Picks Five Albums Everyone Needs To Own | Vinyl Me, Please
- (link to above playlist on spotify)
- Interview: Mitski | chorus.fm
- MITSKI // INTERVIEW | London In Stereo
- Interview: Mitski, "i spent a lifetime as an outsider" | howl and echoes
- Mitski’s tough love | DAZED DIGITAL
- “I wrote these songs and I want to do them justice” | Drowned in Sound
- Mitski Creates A Heightened Remembrance Of Adolescence On 'Puberty 2' | NPR
- Mitski On 'Puberty 2' And The Nature Of Happiness | NPR
- Mitski: “Why is it so hard to understand that I'm in control?”
- “Instead of Having One Perspective, I Saw Many”: An Interview with Mitski | She shreds media
- Peripheral Vision: Mitski Interviewed | The Skinny
- Mitski on Life Before and After Critical Success | Miami New Times
- mitski | yours truly (archived page)
- Mitski | Issue Magazine
2017
- Mitski on learning how things work | The Creative Independent
- LADYGUNN #15 COVER STORY: MITSKI | LADYGUNN
- 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going (No. 24) | New York Times
- Mitski: Tell Me About It | Crack Magazine
- mitski tells us what's on her mind, and what she's listening to (k-pop) | i-D
- Everything You Say Matters: An Interview With Mitski | Rookie Magazine
- Driving at Night After the Show: A Playlist by Mitski | Crack Magazine
- Mitski Part I: Early Musical Influences Yumi Matsutoya and Miyuki Nakajima | No No Boy
- Q&A: Mitski On Her Next Album & Making Sense Of Newfound Fame | Stereogum
2018
- Mitski - Portraits | The Fashion Post
- Mitski Loves Tea More Than You Do | My Recipes
- 孤独と向き合い拓けた、全米シンガーへの道【前編】(Part 1) | Pintscope
- 孤独と向き合い拓けた、全米シンガーへの道【後編】(Part 2) | Pintscope
- Mitski Announces An Intimate New Album With The Epic Single ‘Geyser’ | Uproxx
- Hear A Conversation With Mitski About Her New Song, 'Geyser' | NPR
- Mitski’s ‘Puberty 2’ Mines Her Scars for Raw Meaning | The New York Times
- Don't Cry for Mitski | Pitchfork
- 5 Songs We Can’t Stop Listening To with guest Mitski | Radio Milwaukee
- Mitski on her Piano Teacher-inspired, “saddest” album Be the Cowboy | Fact Magazine
- Mitski on How Growing Up and Dreams of Settling Down Inspired New Album 'Be the Cowboy' | Billboard
- MITSKI // INTERVIEW | London In Stereo
- Your best American Mitski interview | The FADER
- Mitski Writes Bangers for the Loners | GQ
- DON'T CALL MITSKI “EMOTIONAL” | NYLON
- How Hitchcock, Toto, and Rosamund Pike influenced Mitski's Be the Cowboy | EW
- Mitski talks about defying expectations and discovering her narrative voice on "Be The Cowboy." | The Line of Best Fit
- Mitski says ‘Be the Cowboy’ is an inside joke between her and herself | Radio Milwaukee
- Mitski interview: "When you listen to an album, it's yours. It's no longer the artist's, so you can do what you want with it." | saved by old times
- Two Slow Dancers: Mitski's Endless Creative Waltz | Clash Magazine
- Mitski's "Be The Cowboy" | yesismore (album photography by Bao Ngo)
- Mitski Is in Control on 'Be the Cowboy' | exclaim!
- Indie-rock star Mitski: 'I'm waiting for everyone to decide to hate me' | The Guardian
- PAPER People: Mitski | Paper Mag
- HOW MITSKI’S NEW ALBUM WAS INSPIRED BY THE DISPARATE SOUNDS OF FRANK OCEAN, PRINCE AND THE BEATLES | Gold Plec
- A Music Journal (Issue One) | Gold Flake Paint
- Mitski Thinks You Should Take a Vacation From the Internet | Spin
- Mitski On Her 2018 Highlights, Practical Gift-Giving & Dancing On Stage: 'I Took the Plunge, and I Grew So Much' | Billboard
- Phosphene 03 - MITSKI | Ebru Yildiz
- Mitski by In Conversation with TIDAL | TIDAL (video)
2020
there are no interviews/photoshoots for this year!
2021
- Hear a new Mitski track ‘The End’ from soundtrack to graphic novel ‘This Is Where We Fall’ | NME
- Mitski Cuts Sharp and Sure With ‘Working for the Knife’ | The Rolling Stone
- MITSKI - LAUREL HELL | Dead Oceans
- Mitski announces new LP ‘Laurel Hell,’ shares new single “The Only Heartbreaker” | Brooklyn Vegan
- Lose Yourself With... Mitski | BBC Sounds (Audio)
- (link to above playlist on spotify)
- Mitski Had to Quit Music to Love It | Rolling Stone
- Mitski: The Rolling Stone Digital Cover | Rolling Stone
- Mitski: The First Time | Rolling Stone
- Mitski: Stop the World | CRACK Magazine
- Mitski in 9 Acts | Vulture
- Mitski Reacts to Posts About Mitski | Crack Magazine
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