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Wednesday, January 20 2010

"We Wanted to Do Something Completely Different": An Interview with Editors

Guitars for sale! Ditching the moody edge that defined their first two albums, the UK's Editors are now setting out to craft electronic rock music.


Reviews

Monday, December 14 2009

Editors: In This Light and on This Evening

Band buys Casio in attempt to shake unshakeable comparison. Fails. Film at 11.


Friday, October 17 2008

Global Bollywood by Anandam Kavoori and Aswin Punathambekar, Editors

What is Bollywood all about? And why did the multiplex near my hometown, in a field on the outer suburban ring of Chicago, reserve one theater just for Bollywood movies?


Wednesday, October 15 2008

Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left by Cottee & Cushman, Eds.

How could a critic of empire, a loyal friend to the Palestinians, and the bane of Henry Kissinger ally himself with the Bush administration and its push for imperial adventures in the Middle East?


Monday, October 13 2008

Electronic Tribes: The Virtual Worlds of Geeks, Gamers, Shamans, and Scammers by Adams & Smith, Eds.

This interesting collection of essays discusses how we love, hate, and mate in the 21st century.


Tuesday, July 17 2007

Editors: An End Has a Start

Slickly professional follow-up to 2005's The Back Room fails to deliver the same jittery thrills.


Blogs

Tuesday, May 18 2010

Walked in Line: The Musical Disciples of Joy Division

If any band is heir to the musical path Joy Division laid out, it would be the Cure, quite possibly the second-most influential band of the post-punk era.


Thursday, November 12 2009

Editors - "Papillon" (stream)

"Papillon" is the first single from Editors' third album, In This Light and on This Evening, set to be released in the US on 19…


News

Monday, January 28 2008

Editors drummer Ed Lay is a pretty good sport

Call the British band Editors what you want: post-punk, black-clad, serious-faced music drama queens. Whatever the description, things seem to be working out pretty well.…


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