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  1. Old is the New New: Time Spent with Rimpau
     By Willie Schube
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• Five Things I Learned At A Fucked Up Show

  • Author: Adam Asher
  • Categories: Concerts Notes on a Concert
  • Published: Thu. May 10th, 2012

  If you want to be at the front, it’s not always going to be easy.

• Notes on M83

  • Author: Willie Schube
  • Categories: Notes on a Concert Photos
  • Published: Mon. May 7th, 2012

  Note!: All the pictures were very big, and I’m not good enough at the internet (yet!) to figure out how to comfortably re-size them, so I’ve created a handy Flickr page for them. I’m so impressed with my initiative and ability to conquer the strange world of Flickr. I think our account is in Dutch ...

• Part/Whole, 2nd Edition: Doseone – Last Life

  • Author: Willie Schube
  • Categories: Albums Interviews Part/Whole
  • Published: Thu. May 3rd, 2012

  Doseone has been killing it for quite some time. Themselves, Subtle, 13 & God, and cLOUDDEAD have all been around since the late 90s/early 2000s—not to mention that Doseone has been one of the most recognizable faces within the Anticon crew for the past ten or so years (Yoni Wolf being his only rival… The ...

• Nocturnal Rhythms

  • Author: Gabriel Gutierrez
  • Categories: Albums Commentary Pop Week
  • Published: Tue. May 1st, 2012

  How do you make a synth pop album, in 2012, relevant? It’s a surprisingly pressing concern, given the state of the radio and that three out of the five reviews posted on this site for “pop week” are about contemporary synth pop albums. It’s something of which Ramona Gonzales (Nite Jewel’s key songstress and raison ...

• Visions is a magical album

  • Author: Emanuel Vinson
  • Categories: Albums Essays Pop Week
  • Published: Fri. Apr 27th, 2012

  Grimes’ Visions is a magical album. It’s here to mystify and enchant, through deep bass and beautiful melody; I’d play it for my kids, or my plants. Its magic has made it very popular as of now – it’s something so specific, but so finely tuned to be gushing with attractive details at all times: ...

• Beak & Claw

  • Author: Willie Schube
  • Categories: Albums Commentary Essays
  • Published: Wed. Apr 25th, 2012

  In honor of our 100th piece on the new site, this week we’re putting together a special series on pop music. Five pieces, five authors, five new records that either conform to, expand upon, or utterly destroy pop conventions. Beak & Claw, the debut collaborative EP between Sufjan Stevens, Serengeti, and Son Lux (collectively known ...

• Happy To You?

  • Author: Tristan Rodman
  • Categories: Essays
  • Published: Mon. Apr 23rd, 2012

  In honor of our 100th piece on the new site, this week we’re putting together a special series on pop music. Five pieces, five authors, five new records that either conform to, expand upon, or utterly destroy pop conventions.  There’s always been something troubling to me about the way people write about and analyze Miike ...

• Future Queens of Seattle

  • Author: Willie Schube
  • Categories: Albums Commentary Essays
  • Published: Mon. Apr 16th, 2012

  How long until Seattle is branded as the next haven for hip-hoppers? Palaceer Lazaro, formerly known as Ishmael Butler, emerged from seemingly nowhere a few years back, and began his reign as hip-hop’s preeminent funkified rhyme smith. His group, Shabazz Palaces, signed to Seattle-based Sub Pop last year and released the thrilling Black Up. At ...

• Part/Whole, 1st Edition: Delicate Steve – Afria Talks to You

  • Author: Willie Schube
  • Categories: Interviews Part/Whole
  • Published: Tue. Apr 10th, 2012

  Welcome to the first edition of our newest feature, “Part/Whole.” As the title suggests, the segment is broken up into two sections: The “part” and the “whole.” Each new edition will be focused on an album announcement and its accompanying lead single. The “part” will examine the single at an in-depth level, featuring mainly opinion ...

• Art of the Video, Vol. 5: Serengeti- Shazam

  • Author: Willie Schube
  • Categories: Art of the Video Interviews
  • Published: Thu. Apr 5th, 2012

  Welcome to The Art of the Video, our constantly-growing series in which we take a closer look at our favorite music videos. Today’s edition features Alex Beh, director of the video for Serengeti’s “Shazam.” For this edition, we asked Alex some questions we thought the video presented. As always, we recommend you check out the ...

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