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Love is All Tries to Keep the Embers Burning with its Second Albumnew
With A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night, the success of the previous album was in the back of the band's mind. "It's an impossible task to make a second record after the first one has been well received."
New York Press |
Christine Werthman |
10-09-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tegan and Sara are Back in the Habitnew
Narcissism and novelty are not what have compelled the two biological halves Tegan and Sara to navigate their entire adult lives in an eponymous folk pop band.
New York Press |
Robyn Hillman-Harrigan |
10-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Tegan & Sara
My Bloody Valentine Massacres Eardrums in NYCnew
The Lilys hour-long allotment was the formalist of formalities—an unnecessary, sure-to-be-disregarded warm up for an un-warm-up-able crowd of over 3,000. How could you possibly be warmed up for My Bloody Valentine?
New York Press |
Greg Burgett |
10-02-2008 |
Concerts
Tags: my bloody valentine
Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip is on the Best MySpace Date Evernew
Hip-hop might have been born in the Bronx, but its newest generation of superstars is coming straight outta Essex, U.K.
New York Press |
Billy Jam |
09-25-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
In a Dark Room with Future Islands, Our Man Sees the Lightnew
Future Islands are riding a synthesized post-wave and might help to subside the sarcastic tides (a black water, too often mistaken for irony by a culture that disguises brazenly ugly sentiments with gushes of its artistic merit) cascading into the strands of hipsterdom.
New York Press |
Greg Burgett |
09-25-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Future Islands
Brooklyn-based Singer Maiysha Refuses to Dumb It Downnew
Though she participated in numerous school musicals -- she was the lead in a production of The Wiz when she was 12 -- her musical career didn't truly begin until after she graduated from Sarah Lawrence, where she studied vocal performance, creative writing and race and gender studies.
New York Press |
Ernest Barteldes |
09-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Maiysha, This Much is True
Reunited Beachwood Sparks Burn Brighter Than Evernew
Hiatuses, as it turns out, sometimes fade as well, and when your former label asks really nicely whether you'd be interested in getting the old band back together to help celebrate its 20th birthday, those initial catalysts for dissolution sometimes seem less clear.
New York Press |
Brian Heater |
09-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
What Dehydration Can Do at Burning Mannew
Whereas other Burners built elaborate shade structures, we had a couple tents and a tarp stretched over our station wagon’s trunk.
New York Press |
Joshua M. Bernstein |
09-04-2008 |
Concerts
Aaron Parks Seeks a Nu Piano Groovenew
As a member of Brooklyn's "Nu Jazz" movement, Seattle-born Parks seeks to reclaim the spontaneity that was characteristic of the Miles Davis–led cool-jazz era with his new album.
New York Press |
Ernest Barteldes |
09-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Lykke Li Feels Your Pain and Then Somenew
You're arriving late to this Swede's party.
New York Press |
Christine Werthman |
08-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lykke Li, Youth Novels
Reggae Legend Burning Spear Shines on New Disc, Tournew
When you start out with Bob Marley as your mentor, great things can’t help but follow.
New York Press |
Ernest Barteldes |
08-29-2008 |
Reviews
Brooklyn's Coolest Lifeguards Say Good-bye to McCarren Poolnew
The sun, alas, is about to set on yet another magical New York City music venue. For the past three summers, New York's largest (and emptiest) pool has been a host to rock bands, slip-and-sliders, dodgeballers and hula-hoopers—a veritable indie-rock wonderland.
New York Press |
Brian Heater |
08-25-2008 |
Concerts
A Byrne-ing Sensationnew
After decades of pushing the boundaries of how pop music (and music in general) can be defined, David Byrne and Brian Eno have performed the only shock maneuver remaining to them: turning tail and running from the avant-garde.
New York Press |
Jamie Peck |
08-25-2008 |
Reviews
The Walkmen Survive the Chinatown Bus to Create the Year's Best Albumnew
With band members and practice spaces in New York and Philadelphia, nearly every day of the week required half of the band to make the trip while recording the new record, You & Me.
New York Press |
Jonny Leather |
08-18-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Vintage Dance-punk Band The Faint Still has the Movesnew
The Faint's fifth full-length release, Fasciinatiion, stands as a study in taking over the means of production—and at the same time, wrestling with the vagaries of technology.
New York Press |
Amre Klimchak |
08-18-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
