Listening To My Life: Being Bonnie
I’ve never given much thought or attention to the fact that I’m named after Bonnie Raitt. I’ve never felt compelled to search for any deeper meaning to my name because it’s always felt right. read more
Found in: Music, ColumnsChoir of Young Believers: Taking It All The Way
First impressions are a bitch—especially for pop musicians, and even more especially for acclaimed songwriters who etch a distinct imprint on the critical and public consciousness. read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesVacationer: The Best of What's Next
Vacationer launches into its island-tinged electro-pop, or as the band jokingly called it while recording the album, “Nu-hula.” The live vocals and instruments are mixed with electronic beats and samples of light-hearted, Pacific island sounds created far from the middle of Texas. read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesBlue Like Jazz: How a Movie Based on a Book Became a Story
The story of Blue Like Jazz began in a confessional. Not the story in the best-selling book by Donald Miller. Not even the story in the new movie by musician-turned-director Steve Taylor. But the story of how the book became a movie. read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesAaron Freeman: A Work in Progress
Aaron Freeman and partner in crime Dean Ween (Mickey Melchiondo) have been unleashing their warped attack on pop music as Ween since the early ‘80s, but Freeman has dropped the Gene Ween moniker for the first time on his new solo album. read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesNot Just For 'Girls': Lena Dunham And Judd Apatow On Their Provocative New Series
Tiny Furniture navigated the post-graduate world of bad jobs, worse sex and free-floating confusion. Girls is in many ways the series version of Furniture, with sharper jokes, more characters and a slightly different adrift-in-the-adult-world plot points. read more
Found in: TV, FeaturesSimone Felice: Simone Felice
The once member of New York’s folk-rockers The Felice Brothers, and spearheader of his own brainchild The Duke and The King, rhythm man Simone Felice has emerged from his own past musical collaborations. The effect: a solo album of gothic settings, overcast cryptic integrations of melancholy narratives and dusty honesty. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsOdd Future: The OF Tape, Vol. 2
Disturbing. Hilarious. Vapid. Thought-provoking. Mysogynistic. Empathetic. Odd Future is all of this at once; the hip-hop version of Kris Kristofferson’s pilgrim—a walking contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsOf Monsters and Men: My Head is an Animal
It’s about a six hour flight from the East Coast of the United States to Reykjavík, Iceland, the hometown of up and coming sextet Of Monsters and Men. And the band’s debut album is like that moment during such a transatlantic flight where travellers realize that the journey is just a little bit too long, but ultimately worthwhile. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsM. Ward: Musical Anachronism
A Wasteland Companion, M. Ward’s seventh solo album, has been stewing for nearly three years, recorded in extremely piecemeal fashion at over eight recording studios across the United States and England. read more
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