Julian Lynch is one of our favorite people making music right now, and a Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Between moments deep in the books, Julian was gracious enough to talk to us about how he came to study one of the coolest disciplines in academia and about how being a full-time student affects his life and music.

Does school always win out when balancing the demands of your own music? The two seem, at least superficially, so mutually reinforcing.

I actually started working on my next record a few weeks ago. I spent a lot of time with it, and accomplished a great deal, but at a certain point I had to stop myself to get back to work.

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