Editorial
A Few Thoughts on Kill Your Idols
I just finished watching Kill Your Idols, directed by SA Cary. It’s playing right now on Pitchfork.tv’s wonderful “One Week Only” feature. (Watch it here.) The documentary charts the development of the art-punk scene (whatever that means) in New York in the late 70’s and how it compares, influences, and feels about today’s art-rock scene […]
Choose or Lose: Why Was I at a Locksley Concert?
I was instantly skeptical of what I had gotten myself into Monday night at Cafe 939. Girls, and lots of them. Not just any kind of girls, but teenage girls filled 939. Only a sparse few men were in attendance and more than one was a father most likely accompanying his daughter to the show. […]
Baltimore Round Robin (Feet Night) @ Mass Art, 10.03.08
The first Feet night of Dan Deacon’s Baltimore Round Robin brain child was Friday night at Mass Art’s Pozin Gymnasium.
Before expounding on how the entire affair went down, one must understand how the concert was set up. As promoted, bands set up in an almost complete circle around the gym. Since the space was inadequate […]
Parisian Romanticism
The sound of the Islands‘ “Don’t Call me Whitney, Bobby” echoes in the Parisian street and neither you nor I am there to hear it.
It was filmed in July, sometime in 2006.
Seeing the jovial quintet performing there, in the dead of night, in the abandoned street, is powerful. As blood still pumps through my veins, […]
More Thoughts On Girl Talk
[James originally wrote this in response to my review of Girl Talk, Death Set and Passion Pit at BU. I think it makes quite a few good points and that it warranted its own post. - Aaron]
The thing about the Girl Talk fanbase is that they were mostly shown Girl Talk by […]
Girl Talk, The Death Set & Passion Pit @ Metcalf Hall (BU), 9.20.08
In between each of their songs The Death Set had samples of popular songs played over the PA. Artists such as Lil’ Wayne and MIA were broadcast to the audience to keep everyone’s energy up while the band retools for their next song. One fellow concert goer, fed up with The Death Set and itching […]
Sunset Rubdown @ the Middle East, 9.15.08
This past month my brother and I went to the Tate Modern museum in foggy London town to finish a photo project we had been working on for the entire summer. Photography is prohibited in the Tate and they have taken every precaution to enforce this rule- this means posting volunteers in […]
Hangin’ ‘Round Hipsters
My friends and I have begun a psuedo book club. I say “psuedo” because we discuss more than books and in fact have yet to discuss. Rather, our topics have included, justifying the absence of god to methodists, deconstructing environmentalism from a purely biological viewpoint, and discussing Douglas Haddow’s “Hipster: The Dead End of Western […]
Lactation
I was in ‘Nutrition Research for Disease Prevention’ class Wednesday morning. The main focus of the lecture was lactation and the research supporting breast feeding as a means to reducing risk of chronic disease later in life. A video (VHS - of course) was shown that highlighted what an expecting mother can anticipate in regards […]
Youth Novels
In some ways Youth Novels is difficult to approach. Many of its themes are inherently feminine. Lykke Li has commented that the songs are all built from her own life experiences and that the album should be thought of a storybook of her young life. (She’s 22/23 now.) As such the album delivers thoughts on […]
