Monthly Archive:: May 2015
new music
Save the wee hours for Shilpa Ray, when any combination of sleeplessness, inebriation and despair opens you up to the profane sentiments and black humor that existing in
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new music
These are great days for compilations of popular musics from around the world that have gone overlooked by musicologists’ reverence for traditional forms and millennials’ gravitation toward a
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on the road
Back when I worked at one particular national music magazine, said journal decided the way to connect with the kids was to send the staff to live at
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new music
Blame it on the internet. Blame it on postmodernism. Blame it on the rain. “Curation” used to be the province of experts. To “curate” something implied a certain
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album review
Where are the survivors of 1990s electronica? I’m thinking in particular about groups with charismatic women singers: Everything But the Girl, Portishead, Sneaker Pimps, Olive, Mono, Ivy, and
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new music
Dublin four-piece Girl Band really know how to make a deep incision, whether slicing through soundwaves or carving up a cadaver as happens in their new video. They
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new music
It’s getting faster, moving faster now, it’s getting out of hand, On the tenth floor, down the back stairs, it’s a no man’s land… If you’re used to
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video
Have half-day Fridays for the summer begun already? Because I need to catch my charter plane and reach whichever tropical paradise is featured in this video by sundown.
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new music
I first heard Nic Hessler when he was making waves on KXLU under the moniker Catwalk with a cover of Cleaners From Venus’ “Night Starvation.” He had a
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new music
A radical musical experiment lands on our laps today. Three unexpected collaborators — 70s classic rocker Todd Rundgren, dance music producer Hans-Peter Lindstrøm, and Emil Nikolaisen of Oslo
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