Monthly Archive:: March 2015
new music
OK, places everyone! Here’s the video concept for the new FKA Twigs single, “Glass & Patron”: a white van is parked in the middle of the piney woods
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new book
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Or so wrote a French critic named Alphonse Karr back in the 19th century, and damn if I
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news
Singer/songwriter Laura Gibson lost all of her stuff in yesterday’s terrifying fire in New York. There’s a GoFundMe campaign to help her get some money together to replace
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new music
This new Mas Ysa song is killing me. “Look Up” is a sneakily addictive piece of work, with quirky little sounds repeated in what I can only assume are
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new music
A gorgeous new song here from Roísín Murphy, the Irish musician with the velvety croon and a track record of adventurous dance music. Fans of what we used
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new music
Okay, I’ve been told I have a particular weakness for electronic music duos with female vocals, particularly those from Toronto. (In fact, I’m at work on a book
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concert review
Fine. I give. Bandwagon jumped on. Chorus joined. Your 2015 Rock and Roll Dream Come True is here in the form of Melbourne-based Courtney Barnett. I had resisted
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new music
When you’re a bartender, you develop a thick skin to handle the drunken idiots and jerks who can make your job hell. But if you work at a
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tour
Deconstruct now. Ask me how. Who doesn’t love a good deconstruction? Strip away the layers. Examine each for their presumptions and intent. Reveal the order underneath. Granted you
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new music
Sometimes it feels so good to let go into a bit of aural nostalgia, which isn’t to say that this new Civil Twilight track doesn’t have forward moving
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