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Interview: Fucked Up

Talking to Fucked Up, you get the distinct impression that conversations among the band members could be eternally engrossing. Most of them are childhood acquaintances who insist they still barely know each other. That dynamic makes for interesting ...

From GRAYSON CURRIN, Pitchfork,  2 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Adult Swim,  New York Times Company,  Aqua (musician),  MTV,  Dinosaur Jr (musician)

New Music: Americans in France: "Liking You" [MP3/Stream]

If every tune at least vaguely about affection sported the name "Liking You," we'd be cataloguing this blurb with Dewey Decimals. But as the cap for this gorgeous cut from a distantly forthcoming full-length by new Chapel Hill trio Americans in France, ...

From GRAYSON CURRIN, Pitchfork,  23 Jul 2008

Harvey Milk: Life...The Best Game in Town

Had the first incarnation of Athens, Ga. metal band Harvey Milk never released anything after its second record, 1994's Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men, the trio of Creston Spiers, Stephen Tanner, and Paul Trudeau could still claim two of the '90s ...

From GRAYSON CURRIN, Pitchfork,  17 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Harvey Milk,  Tom Waits,  Kurt Cobain,  Cheap Trick,  Joe Preston

Thurston Moore: Sensitive/Lethal

American fringe music boasts no figurehead as prominent or as potent as Thurston Moore: The multimedia mogul of independent rock, Moore still leads Sonic Youth after nearly three decades, runs a record label with worldwide distribution, writes poetry, ...

From GRAYSON CURRIN, Pitchfork,  17 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Thurston Moore,  Merzbow (musician),  National Geographic,  Paul Desmond,  Steve Reich

Review: Stars Like Fleas: The Ken Burns Effect

Please, stop right there. Certainly by now, you've noticed the numerical rating several pixels above this second sentence, and you're already thinking, "Another 7.something. No time for this." Your pointer is above the back button, your finger on the ...

From GRAYSON CURRIN, Pitchfork,  20 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Ken Burns,  Lil Wayne,  Fred Frith,  Dave Matthews,  Chris Martin

Feature: Interview: James Blackshaw

London-based 12-string guitarist James Blackshaw is only in his mid-twenties, a fact almost every review of his work (including my own) mentions. That number wouldn't be notable if Blackshaw's music wasn't so austere, mature, and patient. For ...

From GRAYSON CURRIN, Pitchfork,  3 Jun 2008

Feature: Interview: Why?

Yoni Wolf, who has been recording either under the name Why? or with a band called Why? since 1998, qualifies almost everything he says with expected pauses, interjections, and adverbs: "whatever," "you know," "whatnot," "I think," "I guess," "I don't ...

From GRAYSON CURRIN, Pitchfork,  2 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Whole Foods Market, Inc.,  David Berman,  J Mascis,  Thurston Moore,  Eugene Mirman

News: Report: Rhys Chatham Premieres Les 100 Guitares: G100 [Williamsport, PA; 05/23/08]

Perhaps you're wondering which mistake we made. Surely, the previously reported world premiere of Les 100 Guitares: G100-- the latest work for massed guitars from New York-bred, Paris-based composer Rhys Chatham-- wasn't in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, ...

From GRAYSON CURRIN, Pitchfork,  29 May 2008
Related Topics: Rhys Chatham

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