The Church of Glitter. Photos by Rena Kosnett.
For the rest of this review, body glitter = sweat. Iowa’s mainframe zaftig-white-female hip hop star, Leslie Hall,
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Thursday March 6th to Saturday March 8th, cult singer-songwriter Phil Elverum is playing a handful of California shows. We've used this as an opportunity to talk
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“This is the number one rule for your set/In order to survive, gotta learn to live with regrets/And through our travels we get separated, never forget/In or
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The coolest thing I learned last night in the media room at the 50th-anniversary Grammy celebration had to do with a Woody Guthrie performance. The original recordi
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In a just world, the Black Lips would be as popular now as the Beatles were in their 1967 pre–White Album era. There are four of them, median age 25, and all are
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Night MarchersAll Star Lanes, Feb. 10
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The Night Marchers' John Reis proves that he swallowed the pill.
Two songs into the Night March
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On a rainy day, or an interminably long sunny day — a windy one — you might try huddling up to a new record called Safe Inside the Day, by the well-traveled and
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In honor of poor Teddy Riley.
Nothing says “epic video” more than a hourglass filled with shifted sands. Nothing.
I'm fairly certain that &#
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If Michael Hurley were just a little crazier, he'd be huge. If he wore a funny hat like Sun Ra, and was obsessed with, say, lawnmowers or parakeets, maybe more
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In the heart of Larchmont Village, among the rows of cafes and retailers, Brushfire Records' headquarters looks like an antiquated mansion from the street. Look
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10. Spoon–Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga [Merge]
Sasha Frere-Jones is a joke and Spoon can prove it. I mean, if all I had to judge indie rock on was the Arcade Fire and the
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10. Sea Wolf-Leaves in the River
At times, Leaves In the River reads a little predictably quirky, but Alex Church's pop heart salvages this from being the effo
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