Alicia Keys: Girl on Fire
With a few carefully considered piano notes, “De Novo Adagio” reminds fans of soul diva Alicia Keys’ classical roots and sets the stage for an album that reaches beyond obvious anthems (“Empire State of Mind,” “Fallin’”) for a new urbanity, offering a variety of moods, notions, even introspection. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsTelegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
Style is often called upon to compensate for a lack of substance. read more
Found in: Books, ReviewsTeam Ghost: Dead Film Star EP
Team Ghost’s Dead Film Star EP is a perfect example of all the potential for greatness on their upcoming debut album the group has read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsDream Boat: Eclipsing
Eclipsing may be the debut album from duo Dan Donahue and Page Campbell, but this record is far from either’s first time at the rodeo. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsGreg Brown: Hymns to What is Left
Greg Brown has been part of the American roots, folk and country scene for so long that it’s become easy to take him for granted—so easy as a matter of fact that somehow I’ve missed out on his music until now. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsVideo Premiere: My Education - "Black Box"
The Austin, Texas instrumental seven piece My Education has continued to garner acclaim for its unique sound and refusal to submit to boundaries. The group’s most recent release, A Drink For All My Friends, features sonic narrative track “Black Box.” The song was written based upon the idea of recording the final moments of a crashing plane. The video for this distinctive audio adventure features the Noble Motion Dance Company in a special performance edited to fit the music.... read more
Found in: Featured VideosScott Walker: Bish Bosch
In a peerless career that now spans seven decades, including shape-shifting turns from '50s teen idol to '60s singer/songwriter to '70s has-been to '80s art-rocker, Scott Walker has spent the past 20-odd years mastering a sui generis style of chthonic cabaret, his otherworldly croon soaring over gorgeous orchestration, slaughterhouse dirges and cavernous silence. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsTom Zé: Tropicália Lixo Lógico
The album doesn’t start all that differently from Animal Collective’s Centipede Hz actually—the electronic rhythm stabs that mark the opening “Apocalipsom A” are accompanied by cuts and growls and scrapes like any other collage-oriented indie-rock. Except this one’s by a 76-year-old Brazilian and no one quite knows where it came from. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsThis Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
Yunior de las Casas's voice sounds like no other in contemporary fiction—peppered with profanity and slang, code-switching seamlessly between Spanish and English, the language of the streets and the language of the academy. read more
Found in: Books, ReviewsInterpol: Turn on the Bright Lights Reissue
"Whatever happened to Interpol?" you might be wondering, realizing that's it's been 10 full years since their elegantly opaque debut, Turn on the Bright Lights. read more
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