The Magnetic Fields have released the video for “Andrew in Drag” from their forthcoming Love at the Bottom of the Sea. The (NSFW) video features the return of the synth and acoustic sound that marked the band’s work in the ’90s, as well as the comic wit that we’ve come to expect...
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Earlier this week, M. Ward posted the first single – “Primitive Girl” – off of his forthcoming album A Wasteland Companion. The album, which is out April 10th on Merge and marks M. Ward’s first album since 2009′s Hold Time, entered the public sphere earlier this year with the release of the beautiful video...
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Hi, Everyone! Well, it’s that time of year again! The time when I get to pontificate about the top releases of the year. However, as usual, I have a really difficult time ranking things. This is something that carries over from my work as a professor. After all, what is the difference between a...
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Nirvana’s Nevermind is twenty years old today. Of all the sentences I hadn’t been expecting to type during my teenage years, that one really sticks out. Yet, here we are. Seventeen years after the band ceased making new music. And yet, Nirvana lives in the collective imagination in a way that few bands can. ...
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Sonya Cotton’s new album – It is so - (released this week via bandcamp and her personal website) is a beautiful, touching collection of songs dedicated, as Sonya writes, “…to the life and spirit of my mother, Karen Imparato Cotton.” The album also contains the track “Song For Eric,” a tribute to Sonya’s friend...
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