Songs I Mourned Men To
Illustration by Sarah Lutkenhaus I cannot decipher the sounds of different instruments within a song or name notes that were hit or how to aptly compare a voice to honey or smoke. I do not know how to...
View ArticleBjörk Gets Financial Closure from Barney: May She Return to Singing About Atoms
Did you listen to Björk’s Vulnicura? Better question: Were you able to listen to it, nine brutal songs that illuminate in painful detail the dissolution of her thirteen-year relationship with artist...
View ArticleDavid Bowie Remains Puzzling, Provocative And Magnificent On ★
Every David Bowie super-fan has their own personal story about what made them click with his art, the magnetic, “a-ha!” moment that made them realize his greatness was as irresistible as gravitational...
View ArticleDance Magic: Celebrate 30 Years Of Labyrinth With Shea Stadium Cover Show
Poster courtesy of Dan Schmatz David Bowie’s excellent 26th album ★ is out today, January 8th, a day that also happens to be his 69th birthday. But another big anniversary involving The Thin White Duke...
View ArticleCaptured Tracks’ New Side Business—Sideman Records—Plans to Stock The World...
Inside Sideman Records in Fort Greene (still in unpacking, soft-open mode) (Natalie Rinn) Mike Sniper—whose first indie label Captured Tracks signed instant stars like Wild Nothing, Beach Fossils and...
View ArticleMeet Avant-Garde Cellist Kelsey Lu And Watch Her Wonderfully Wild “Morning...
Kelsey Lu is a North Carolina native who was raised in a strict Jehovah’s Witness household, and used music as a liter escape from the stifling religious atmosphere of her childhood. Née Kelsey...
View ArticleBrothers Osborne Cash In On Oddball Country Collateral with Pawn Shop
Photo courtesy of Jim Wright “My brother and I don’t really care about trends—what’s hot, what’s not,” John Osborne says over the phone from Nashville. That must make it even sweeter that his duo, the...
View ArticleLaura Mvula Returns With Gorgeous Vengeance On “Overcome”
If, like me, you found Adele’s new album to be tepid at best, perhaps it’s time for another iconic British singer to steal your heart. Let me introduce you to Laura Mvula, one of the most singular...
View ArticleBrothers Osborne Affirm America’s Small Town Soul On Pawn Shop
Maybe I’m being presumptuous, but it seems like this year is shaping up to be one of the best years for country music in a while. Between the lazily grouped yet critically adored real country trifecta...
View ArticlePost-Divorce Miranda Lambert Is Not Giving Up On Family, Hear “Sweet By And By”
Miranda Lambert just got divorced from her moderately annoying former husband Blake Shelton (okay, probably more than moderately to most of you but I still love “Neon Light” so much that I’m giving...
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