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In theory, he was an artist you want to root for
In theory, she was an artist you want to root for— all these ideas about art and celebrity and a flair for the dramatic. But the first few singles made the Lady Gaga project feel so presumptuous, her...
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Mark Romanek’s
Highly recommend checking out Mark Romanek’s (director of classic videos like NIN’s “Closer”; Michael & Janet Jackson’s “Scream”; Fiona Apple’s “Criminal” and Johnny Cash’s “Hurt”) Posterous page,...
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5 Favourite Covers Of 2009
my top 20 songs of the year list is coming soon along with commentary, but until then here are 5 of my favorite covers from the past year. All 5 of these are tracks that work as more than just a...
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Movies In Frames
moviesinframes: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2004 (dir. Michel Gondry) [note: this is a re-framing; you can see the first one here] My favorite movie of the decade. Hard to think of it...
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My Top 10 Favourite Albums Of 2009
10. Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse – Dark Night of the Soul I remember seeing posters all around town in Austin at SXSW in March and being very intrigued by the premise of this project (David Lynch...
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More synthesizer cake!
baddies-boogie: noisenik: More synthesizer cake! This time a Roland SH-101!
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Chicago’s Congress Theater
Girl Talk celebrate the New Year with a house party inside a two-story, five-room house built onstage inside Chicago’s Congress Theater on December 31, 2009. (via Rolling Stone)
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The Anomaly Returns: A Review of “W h o k i l l” by Tune-Yards
tUnE-yArDs Ears are meant to be stimulated, and Tune-Yards begs to be the weapon of choice for flexible music listeners eager to be perplexed, enticed and bombarded all at once. Helmed by New England...
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Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues
Helplessness Blues ~ Fleet Foxes If thoughtfulness is a quality becoming all too rare in mainstream music, rejoice in knowing that it still thrives in the fringe realm of bands like Fleet Foxes. The...
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Mirror Traffic by Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
Words commonly inhabit songs; but amongst today’s sterile, dance-centric popular music, words are more of an afterthought than a necessity. That’s probably why Stephen Malkmus remains an icon of the...
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