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Articles Written by: JOSHUA KLEIN
If you believe the back story, Danielle Stech-Homsy, the daughter of a costume designer/flamenco dancer mother and a gay Syrian painter/set designer father, had no intention of releasing her first album, The Bride of Dynamite. That is, until while ...
From JOSHUA KLEIN,
Pitchfork,
5 Mar 2009
It's not fair to judge a band by its moniker. If it were, even more great but stupidly named groups would fall by the wayside than do already. Even so, "Gringo Star" brings to mind no less than a novelty Tex-Mex Beatles cover band, and that's asking ...
From JOSHUA KLEIN,
Pitchfork,
4 Mar 2009
Once upon a time, New Zealand produced dozens of great guitar bands, from the Clean to the Dead C. They almost seemed to produce more bands than the tiny South Pacific paradise knew what to do with, and certainly more than one might expect a nation ...
From JOSHUA KLEIN,
Pitchfork,
4 Mar 2009
The Animal Collective show at the Metro Thursday night had been sold out for weeks. Tickers were going for $100 online, and opportunistic frauds were rampant. The band formally released its ninth album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, a few days earlier, ...
Back in 2003, with the Smashing Pumpkins broken up, Zwan already history and his ignominious solo debut still a ways off, Billy Corgan appeared at the Art Institute for an evening of bad poetry. He wore a helmet adorned with lights, chilled on a magic ...
Yanka Dyagileva was a Russian poet and punk/folk hero whose work circulated throughout the country's counterculture underground. They were sometimes shoddy recordings making the rounds on often equally shoddy cassettes (the clandestine ...
From JOSHUA KLEIN,
Pitchfork,
23 Jul 2008
So many of Mike Patton's projects have been conceptual in nature that context is key to their enjoyment. Factor in that he's a prolific bugger-- appearing in any number of bands, combos, and permutations, playing any number of styles with any degree of ...
From JOSHUA KLEIN,
Pitchfork,
23 Jun 2008
The music biz being what it is, Orchestra Baobab never quite got their due in the West. They disbanded in the mid-1980s, just as more and more people were growing aware that there was music being released all over the world, some of it-– gasp!-– not ...
From JOSHUA KLEIN,
Pitchfork,
18 Jun 2008
There are cult acts cool to so many they hardly qualify as cult, and then there are cult acts cool to so few they barely show up as a blip on the radar. It's in this latter category that you'd likely find Paul Haig, not that the former Josef K leader ...
From JOSHUA KLEIN,
Pitchfork,
13 Jun 2008
"Second Son", the first song on Ex Reverie's fine The Door Into Summer, offers a wonderful contrast. What begins as a potentially go-nowhere dirge erupts into a brief out-of-the-past acid-rock freakout, the maxed out guitars mingling uneasily with ...
From JOSHUA KLEIN,
Pitchfork,
10 Jun 2008
