Pages tagged “issue 36”

Robyn Hitchcock: Reissues

Reissues prove Hitchcock’s still weird and elusive after all these years...  read more

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Oliver Sacks

Early on in Musicophilia, there’s a tale about a patient who develops...  read more

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Beirut

Someday in the distant future, cultural archaeologists will isolate a huge square block in Brooklyn’s formerly industrial neighborhood of Greenpoint and decide here was the incubator of indie cool. “TV on the Radio used to practice down there,” Zach Condon says, gesturing north as we cross the street...  read more

Found in: Music, Features

Abra Moore: On The Way

It’s been far too long since a singer/songwriter explored the connections between jazz and the earth...  read more

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Sylvie Lewis: Translations

Graced with wistful piano playing, sepia-toned arrangements and cabaret-ready melodies, London singer/songwriter Sylvie Lewis’ second album shares a young Rufus Wainwright’s seen-too-much-too-soon weariness...  read more

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Orhan Pamuk

Pamuk’s first publication since his 2006 Nobel Prize endows him with a satisfying sense of humanness...  read more

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Ann Patchett

After the wild success of her last novel Bel Canto, Patchett mixes things up in her latest by going small...  read more

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Jackson County Line

Atlanta’s Jackson County Line camps out at the mellow end of the alt.country spectrum...  read more

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Pelle Carlberg: In A Nutshell

It’s funny to think Scandinavians were once better known for dour existentialism (think Bergman films) than sunny indie-pop...  read more

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Marc Broussard: SOS: Save Our Soul

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Facing the fact that his singing is ahead of his writing, 25-year-old Marc Broussard turns to the soul chapter of the Great American Songbook and lets ‘er rip...  read more

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