Articles tagged "music"

Books Review

Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro

by Christopher Guerin

[15.Oct.09] :. Kazuo Ishiguro’s first collection of short fiction, though more grounded in everyday experience than his recent novels, is tinged with his sense of the strange and sad, and, new for him, the humorous.

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Why? - Eskimo Snow (new album / tour dates / video)

by Eleanore Catolico

[22.Sep.09] :. Why? Eskimo Snow (Anticon) Releasing: 22 September Bay Area art-poppers Why? release Eskimo Snow today on Anticon. This time around, their music has a more folksy panache...

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Sin Fang Bous Announces North American Tour (tour dates / video / MP3)

by Eleanore Catolico

[16.Sep.09] :. Stop it Sindri! I keep getting lost in your dewy eyes. Sindri Mar Sigfusson, bandleader of the whimsical pop-folk group Seabear, has just announced North American tour dates in support of his solo...

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Juliette Lewis Talks and Sings on Ferguson (tour dates / video)

by Eleanore Catolico

[14.Sep.09] :. Juliette Lewis is like that woman in the bar who’s gotten into fights (and won) and ain’t no fool to a man’s game. She infuses this feral power into her high octane rock...

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Soundscape of the Body Politic: The Songs of Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Inherent Vice’

by Eleanore Catolico

[10.Sep.09] :. Interpolators of literature always try to figure out how we, as readers, glean the book in our hands. Arguments between the likes of Harold Bloom and the New Critics in the ‘50s, whose polemics...

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Micachu & the Shapes - “Turn Me Well” (video)

by Eleanore Catolico

[10.Sep.09] :. Mica Levi’s Jewellry has garnered accolades because of its beautifully constructed bizarreness, a synecdoche of pop atonality.Yesterday, the 21-year-old Levi, performing under the stage...

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The (Indie) Music Industry Is All Right

by Liz Colville

[31.Aug.09] :. The media is too preoccupied with the funeral arrangements of the mainstream music industry to celebrate the life that is happening elsewhere.

 

Happy! Candy! Fun! Shonen Knife’s Rock Euphoria Returns (video)

by Eleanore Catolico

[28.Aug.09] :. Your favorite Japanese-all female-banana chip lovin’-pop punk trio is back. With new bassist Ritsuko Taneda added to the lineup, alongside lead/guitar Naoko Yamano and drummer Etsuko Nakanishi,...

 
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Queering Madonna & stardom: As contradictory as Uncle Tom, except in reverse

by Diepiriye Kuku

[9.Apr.09] :. Madonna was as contradictory as Uncle Tom, except in reverse. She claimed to challenge the institution and dominance of the church while worshiping at the mantle of capitalism and white supremacy in ways that only reinforced the nexus of gender, race and class oppression and mutual exploitation.

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John Zorn by John Brackett

by Michael Patrick Brady

[28.Jan.09] :. One must be willing to risk being consumed by the dark, cabalistic world Zorn has created around his art.

 

Admiring Oliver Sacks

by Jillian Burt

[19.Oct.07] :. The neurologist Oliver Sacks has an extraordinary ability to write the life of the mind. Where others see illness, dementia, a fearsome strangeness and shy away, he’s respectfully fascinated...

 

New CD revives Hialeah, Fla.‘s, forgotten musical past

by Amy Driscoll [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[4.Sep.07] :. HIALEAH, Fla.—Before the Miami Sound Machine hit it big and the Buena Vista Social Club became an international sensation, the future of Cuban music was being shaped in a place not generally...

 

Damiera: M(US)IC

by Dave Hoffman

[6.Mar.07] :. Damiera plays hyperkinetic, angular indie rock, echoing At the Drive-In, or Coheed & Cambria without the weird prog-rock tendencies.

 

Madonna: Music

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Sep.00] :. And indeed, for Madonna, music, like most everything else, is always going to do something.