Pages tagged “issue 44”

Fleet Foxes

"I don’t think of us as a rock band, really” Robin Pecknold, the bearded 22-year old frontman of Seattle’s Fleet Foxes says. “If anything, we’re pop.” Still, this is not the candy-coated dance-pop of Hot Chip or even the Kinks-y pop-rock of Fleet Foxes’ Sub Pop labelmates The Shins...  read more

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Method Man

The graphics of hip-hop began on city walls and trains cars, where graffiti artists...  read more

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Cassandra Wilson: Mississippi Queen

Cassandra Wilson uses her voice—by turns subtle, sonorous and sweet—to tell stories, to conjure images, to wink at ironies, to jump genres and redefine jazz. For her, it’s a ministry of sorts, and she’s won all kinds of converts. Time Magazine in 2001 named her...  read more

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Dennis Wilson: Pacific Ocean Blue (Legacy Edition)

After serving as drummer and...  read more

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Encounters at the End of the World

"The National Science Foundation had invited me to Antarctica even though...”  read more

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My Winnipeg

In his ninth feature, My Winnipeg, Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin uses...  read more

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W. Hodding Carter

The premise: A forty-something ex-collegiate...  read more

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Sangre de mi sangre (Blood of My Blood)

Fusing a bit of Shake-spearean...  read more

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Quid Pro Quo

Billed as a steamy detective story about voluntary paralytics and...  read more

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Coldplay: Viva la Vida, or Death and All His Friends

Play on or played out? Two writers debate...  read more

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