my favorite live shows of the year
As the year winds down, we start to make our year end lists chronicling the best of 2012. While I’ve been thinking about my favorite records over the last couple of weeks, I… Continue reading
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my obsession with vinyl and nostalgia finally surfaces
recently, when Hurricane Sandy brought us “you can’t go outside. ever.” weather, my roommate and i indulged in cabin fever. she finally sat down to watch Almost Famous. a movie she always assumed… Continue reading
Fiona Apple is better than you (and me.)
When you have the ability to evoke emotion through a medium like music, people will pay attention. At least we hope they will. Every time I listen to The Idler Wheel…, Fiona Apple’s latest,… Continue reading
Titus Andronicus/Local Business
When Titus Andronicus’ 2010 record The Monitor came out, I foolishly didn’t pay much attention to it. Let’s just say that my inner-punk hadn’t fully blossomed. Since living in Washington, DC I think… Continue reading
here there and everywhere: what i find on the internet and why you need to care.
Recently, I’ve found myself in the depths of the internet. It all started late one night when I decided to make a tumblr. Then I started discovering the tumblr world. Something I never… Continue reading
i saw Ariel Pink last night
Let me first just say that I was dreading this show. A friend of mine asked if I was going and sort-of persuaded me when I told her I was on the fence.… Continue reading
Japandroids: or how i learned to stop worrying and love alternative rock
The lines of defining music are thick and thin. Many times certain sounds cross boundaries while others strictly stay away from one another. Something can be funky and jazzy at the same time,… Continue reading
Ariel Pink: mysterious pretension seeps through every crevasse
Not often enough do I use this site to spill my guts. Lately it’s been obsessions, list makings and internal arguments. But I’ll stick to just one for now. For a while my… Continue reading
the xx/Coexist: uneasy about English Pop. beautiful yet unsatisfying.
This Mercury Prize winning band is back for more. In 2009, their debut, xx, dazzled the world. Now Coexist is here, also on Young Turks (on September 11th in the US and the 10th in the… Continue reading
Dirty Projectors live!
Courtesy of their website, which is user friendly, helpful, informational and well designed, Dirty Projectors have photos. They aren’t typical live shots. Which highlights the unusual nature of this Brooklyn Band. Essentially this… Continue reading