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Music | Wednesday, July 19,2006
Nuts for these Brazilians
Latin-flavored psych-pop returns, nearly 30 years after disbanding
In the music industry, second chances are like flying saucers, so rarely seen that they beg the question “Do they really exist?” And yet, on very rare occasions, a once-promising musician
Music | Wednesday, July 12,2006
Delighting in happy accidents
Shapes and Sizes may be terminally adorable, but that’s OK
When the terminally adorable Canadian quartet Shapes
and Sizes signed to indie-rock über-cutie Sufjan Stevens’s record label, Asthmatic
Kitty, the sudden surfeit of sweetness must
Music | Wednesday, July 12,2006
VINYL STATIC
Meet Aloe Blacc; the Roots hit the Pageant Theatre
CD EXCHANGE: With R. Kelly busy basking in the
glow of his mesmerizing car wreck of a miniseries, Trapped in the Closet, the R&B world has hit a
bit of a drought when it comes to male si
Music | Thursday, July 6,2006
Testing an illusory world
Lady & Bird’s children’s story for adults
Lady & Bird is the
intriguing, if slight, side project of Keren Ann Zeidel and Bardi
Johannsson. Zeidel, an Israel-born Frenchwoman who now shuttles between
Paris and New York, has
Music | Thursday, July 6,2006
Showcase
A short guide to Taste of Downtown’s musical offerings
I like American music, and not just the Violent Femmes’ tune,
either. This weekend, Taste of Downtown’s American Music Show
presents a tiny slice of our vast music scene to enter
Music | Thursday, June 29,2006
Matters of the heart
Lucky Syd -- girls are suckers for sad boys
As long as there are girls who are suckers for sad boys, there will be a place in the global economy for the likes of Syd Matters. You won’t hear me complaining. If those girls can be blamed for
Music | Thursday, June 29,2006
Goodbye, old friend
After 11 years, Sleater-Kinney announces its break-up
GOODBYE, OLD FRIEND: The news was posted, and Vinyl Static heard the line of dominoes fall — furious message-board posts, the rat-a-tat-tat of stunned bloggers, and a collective gasp — as
Music | Thursday, June 22,2006
No pain, no gain
Evangelista is not an easy listen, but it’s cathartic
Listening to Evangelista, Carla Bozulich’s latest album, is like watching
someone carve off strips of her own skin, fold them into dainty origami
shapes, and present them on a cloisonn
Music | Thursday, June 22,2006
VINYL STATIC
Freak folk here to stay; India.Arie’s back
SINGLES ONLY: Most
alternative genres only have a few good years. The success of an insular
subgenre can quickly turn free-spirited tunes into novelty tracks for tacky
compilations chur
Music | Thursday, June 15,2006
Bringing out the best
Isn’t it a Wonder, how two talented people bring out the best in each other?
At least half of all marriages end in divorce, and
the rate at which bands break up has to be even higher, so what are the
odds that a husband-and-wife band could succeed in the long run? Wh
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