Monthly Archive:: October 2014
Pollard
Here’s a new feature where we highlight our favorite song titles from the fantastic and prolific Robert Pollard. A new one every weekday! “Unshaven Bird” is on the
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new music
The list of musicians who make engaged, relevant music after 50 years in the business is, I think we’d all agree, pretty short. Marianne Faithfull secures her place
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The new single from Spires is a study in influence-soaked contrasts. On the one hand, “Sleepy Eyes” is a shaggy, shuffling blissfest with dreamy vocals that gets even
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Brighter Later is Melbourne singer-songwriter, radio producer, novelist and producer Jaye Kranz’ name for her collaborative musical self. Kranz might change up the line-up on occasion, but this is clearly
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Maybe it’s the sci-fi implications of computer-generated beats or the prevalence of masks in dance-heavy rituals worldwide, but electronic music producers’ deep love of wacky disguises, multiple aliases,
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Viet Cong hails from Calgary, and features ex-members of Women. They wrote their debut LP during a 50 date tour with all four members traveling in one car,
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As we posted last month, the inimitable and unstoppable Robert Pollard continues to rock. One of his two latest projects is Ricked Wicky, whose first (and if this
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What generation of shoegaze are we on now anyway? I suppose it depends when you start counting, but for me, the venerated-yet-oft-derided genre begins in The Year of
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If you spent the better part of your youth being shunted from one rural Florida town to the next, you’d wear all-black, smoke clove cigarettes, and dream of
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In Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs, Joshua Wolf Shenk identifies the primary characteristics shared by such dynamic duos as Lennon and McCartney,
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