Pages tagged “issue 36”

Imperial Teen: The Hair the TV the Baby & the Band

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Girded in the optimism of ’70s shampoo commercials and the brio of fishnets, Imperial Teen has returned after a five-year hiatus to relieve drought and misery...  read more

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The Darjeeling Limited

Watching a Wes Anderson movie means (for better or worse) slipping into a few of the young director’s comfortably worn tropes...  read more

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Grace Is Gone

Of the movies about America’s involvement in Iraq, Grace is Gone is the strangest...  read more

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Mae: Singularity

Melodic hooks, impassioned vocals and solid musicianship abound on Singularity, the third full-length from this Virginia quintet...  read more

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Dischord - Devendra Banhart

Thunder or blunder? Two writers debate...  read more

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Stephen Colbert

“I’m perfectly fine with someone choosing to be gay, as long as he keeps it to himself and marries a woman and has kids like the rest of us.”...  read more

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The Fiery Furnaces: Widow City

If you don’t like the Fiery Furnaces by now...  read more

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4 To Watch: The Cave Singers

Stalactites and stalagmites aren’t a cozy image. But The Cave Singers live in what seems like suburban-sitcom ease: a Seattle house complete with a yard and a basement practice space...  read more

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4 To Watch: MGMT

Sometimes eclecticism can cause a problem. In 2002, when Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser formed the wide-ranging duo MGMT (pronounced “Management”), their conflicting interests caused them to waffle on what they wanted to sound like...  read more

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4 To Watch: Jesca Hoop

In casual dress, Hoop often favors a huge fur hat she inherited from her late mother. The hat gives her a fresh-from-the-traplines Kit Carson look...  read more

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