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1MM: Sigur Rós @ The Grand Ballroom, 6.16.08
Photos by Andrew Parks We’ll have a full “NY Conversation” report on yesterday’s Love Is All/Sigur Rós shows in the afternoon. But for now, here’s what you missed at The Grand Ballroom, as told from a front and center spot on the floor. Oh, to answer your question: Yes, the show was that emo, which […]
ANGER MANAGEMENT: All Was Not Well In the Shiny, Happy World of CSS Last Year
Lovefoxxx, on CSS’ ex-manager: “We want the cancer to reach him as soon as possible” [Photo by Roberta Ridolfi] By Aaron Richter It’s hard to imagine CSS–the Brazilian-borne band responsible for such playful singles as “Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above”–ever getting mad. Perturbed maybe; but never to the point of sounding […]
COMING TO AMERICA: A Photo Diary of Efterklang’s First U.S. Tour
[Band portrait by Benjamin Kürstein] Text by Casper Clausen Photos courtesy of Efterklang Hello dear reader! From May 6th to June 3rd, Efterklang toured the US for the very first time in our eight-year history. A few of us had visited before, but for the majority of our nine people posse, this was a first […]
SOUL ON FIRE: Jamie Lidell @ Bowery Ballroom, 6.9.08
By Andrew Parks The last–hell, maybe the only–time I saw two shows in a row from the same act wasn’t a Radiohead residency or anything involving Phish. It was during Jamie Lidell‘s first round of Multiply dates. At the time, the beat conductor/crooner/Super_Collider alum was a veritable demigod among Wire readers and IDM heads that’d […]
VINTAGE S/T: A Conversation With … Santogold
DIPLO ON SANTOGOLD: ‘She’s the Cocteau Twins of krunk’ The following is the first in an ongoing series of “Vintage S/T” interviews, where we revisit an artist’s state of mind before the hype machine truly hit. Classic Q&A’s with some true icons will also appear from time to time … Interview by Andrew Parks Between […]
G’DAY, MY PEOPLE!: The Presets Offer a Crash Course on Biscuits and Howling Koalas
THE PRESETS (L to R: Kim Moyes, Julian Hamilton) Really, now; enough of the Crocodile Hunter/Dundee jokes. Kim Moyes–a.k.a. KIM and the programmer/drummer half of The Presets–has heard them all anyway. That’s why self-titled asked him to educate us on the finer points of our friends Down Under … like the trials and tribulations of […]
MUSIC SCHOOL DROPOUT: Kelley Polar Shares His 5 Favorite Classical LPs
[Photos by Jimmy Edgar] Much has been made of Kelley Polar’s expulsion from Juilliard, which happened soon after his “Kelley Polar Quartet” swaddled such key Metro Area cuts as “Miura,” “Dance Reaction” and “Caught Up” in rich string arrangements. Since the producer/pianist/violist still has a soft spot for classical music, we asked him to share […]
AU CONTRAIRE: Jamie Lidell, “Jim” (Warp)
Because self-titled‘s staff doesn’t always agree about what’s amazing or godawful What we said then: “The Jamie Lidell we know and love is fun. This is not fun. This is so white-bread normal.”