Kick Your Weekend Off Right with The Aces
Author: Yasmin Ettobi All photos found on band’s social media As someone who used to listen to only indie pop back in middle school, I can say with confidence...
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Previewing Adrianne Lenker at the Vera Project
Author: Megan Karangutkar Photo courtesy of artist’s bandcamp To risk using a cliché, Adrianne Lenker has a way with words. As the lead singer of Big Thief, Lenker writes...
The Monthly Movie Fix with Joel: Show Me the Love
Author: Joel Dull February is here, and that of course means a brand-new movie list. One might even say a lovely movie list because of course this month’s theme...
Emotions Run High with Snail Mail
Author: Yasmin Ettobi Show photos by Erin Christie, header photo by Michael Lavine Lindsey Jordan, the brain and voice behind indie-rock project Snail Mail, is 19-years-old. The fact that...
Bandcamp Deep Dive: Albums You Need to Be Listening To
Author: Shelby Joy Leone I am in a rut. A deep, dark, seemingly inescapable rut of the same four albums on heavy rotation over and over. This happens to...
Well, Rent was Live… For 15 Minutes
Author: Evan Tribelhorn Photo courtesy of Ray Mickshaw/Fox An actor’s broken foot was just the start of the issues that plagued Sunday’s production of Rent: Live on Fox. One...
SIGN SOUNDS: A Monthly Musical Horoscope
Author: Madeline Thomas Header photo by artist Logan O’Neil (Album covers courtesy of the artists’ respective Spotify and or Bandcamp profiles.) “Music recommendations coming straight from the stars” ...
Hippo Campus Preview
Author: Max Slade Header image: Bambi Album Cover The A.V. Club are notable for a lot of the content they produce on YouTube, showing behind the scenes content from new...
The Decade in Review: The Work of Art in the Age of Cultural Overproduction
(name for this piece generously provided by Tim Hecker) Sampling, the act of taking one piece of recorded music or sound and using it within the performance of...
Ólafur Arnalds drew a genuinely surprising crowd last weekend at the Moore
Brian Eno sez ambient music should be as easy to pay attention to as it is to ignore. Classical music aims for a transcendence only sometimes secular, a concept...