Articles
So I Guess We Should Address It, Huh?
Somewhere in between moving my shit from my bedroom to scattered apartments, apartments to a dorm room forever away from...
Feb 15, 2009
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Bow Wow f/ Jermaine Dupri: "Rock The Mic"
I don’t want to be saying this. Know that in advance. But it would be irresponsible for me to deny...
Feb 13, 2009
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Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: "Please Read The Letter"
For all the depressing stats about this year’s Grammy Awards, there was one bright spot—the voting assembly set a Guinness...
Feb 13, 2009
Records
M. Templeton + aA. Munson: Acre Loss
Non-narrative cinema has always had a complicated relationship with music. When I took a course in my undergraduate degree on...
Feb 13, 2009
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Lily Allen: It's Not Me It's You
It’s a fine line between candor and laziness. Lily Allen’s first record, Alright, Still (2006) was effortless: parchment thin lyricism...
Feb 13, 2009
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Ladyhawke: Ladyhawke
Ladyhawke is the nom de rock of Pip Brown, a 28-year-old one-woman band and native New Zealander who took her...
Feb 13, 2009
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Dälek: Gutter Tactics
It was 2002. I was a college student just starting to get into underground hip-hop, still basking in the glow...
Feb 13, 2009
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Beirut: "My Night With The Prostitute From Marseilles"
Contrary to what you might believe after listening to a Beirut album, you’re more likely to get mugged outside of...
Feb 10, 2009
Records
Franco & Le TPOK Jazz: Francophonic: A Retrospective Vol. 1 1953-1980
Franco & Le TPOK Jazz wasn’t so much a band as an institution. Led by the eminent François Luambo...
Feb 10, 2009