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Column: Puritan Blister #38

Due to a summer of trouble, I was set to make this column a sequel to the suicide one I did back in 2005 (PB #10). I's just feeling extra finite, not in an I-need-help ideation way, but leisurely so, you know, like a cavalier malaise that lets you ...

From WILLIAM BOWERS, Pitchfork,  18 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Bo Diddley,  Bob Dylan,  Soulja Boy,  Ian Curtis,  Brett Favre

Review: The Presets: Apocalypso

Ignore that score, kind of! You are reading a rave, the only tire-slashing stipulation being that this duo can only achieve so much subglory, even at their finest! I actually like the great cynical joke that the Presets went to conservatory but ...

From WILLIAM BOWERS, Pitchfork,  18 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Fred Schneider,  James Bond,  John Lydon,  Mark Mothersbaugh,  Billy Idol

Review: HEALTH: DISCO

Funniest band name ever (this week only). It's so undangerous, sub-ironic, and meta-posi that it seems to circle back around to being scary, snide, and nihilist. I crack up every time I'm getting amped for this year's Pitchfork Music Festival and ...

From WILLIAM BOWERS, Pitchfork,  23 May 2008
Related Topics: Vangelis (musician)

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