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Tailored Excess

Gossip and Xenomania make joyful noise Arkansas-bred indie band Gossip (née The Gossip; like Facebook, they dropped the definite article) came to A Joyful Noise, their fifth studio album, having...

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Reclamation Pop

CITYARTS EXCLUSIVE: CULTURAL CONTINUITY IN NEW SAINT ETIENNE CD Saint Etienne Explore Ideas and Tunes on Words and Music My momma said don’t go There’s nothing for you there… - Saint Etienne, “Heading...

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Shine On You Hopeful Pop Star

Bright Light Bright Light’s Rod Thomas answers our questions and plays NYC Gigs London-based musician Rod Thomas makes pop music under the name Bright Light Bright Light, which is, of course, the...

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Beatles Fan Fare

Photographers Whitaker and Gunther capture Beatles history Most people reading this could look at any given photo of The Beatles from Please Please Me onwards and accurately guess the year it was...

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Crying Woolf

Tracy Letts Takes on his Mentor Edward Albee in New Production Edward Albee’s classic Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? returns to Broadway in a 50th-anniversary production from Chicago’s Steppenwolf...

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Top Ten EPs of 2012

The Best in Order of Preference 1. “Late,” Florrie 2. “Super Ultra,” Charli XCX 3. “Cold Summer,” CJ Hilton 4. “Warrior,” Queen of Hearts 5. “Skitszo Pt. 1,” Colette Carr 6. “Iconic,” Icona Pop 7....

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Knee Deep in 20/20 Experiences

Timberlake defines himself and today’s pop Justin Timberlake’s enduring commercial, critical, and street-level success can perhaps best be explained with an insight from Sigmund Freud: There is no...

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Praise Yeezus

Kanye West’s Idylls of Self-Projection It’s fitting Kanye West kicked off the promotional campaign for his new album Yeezus with a series of 66 projections, many of which were reportedly unsanctioned...

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Pynchon for the Postmodern Soul

Visionary author takes the modern world to the Bleeding Edge  In his new novel Bleeding Edge, Thomas Pynchon uses the word “postmodern” for the first time in his fiction – a notable event in the career...

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Best Albums of 2013

Inside out, Outside in for year’s Pop music  IMO, the most significant moment in 2013 pop wasn’t a song, album, or music video. It was an unforgettable turn of events embedded in yet another...

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