music
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Goldfrapp debuts video, marketers control the world
The video for deliciously avant-garde Alison Goldfrapp’s new single ‘A&E’ from her band’s forthcoming album, Seventh Tree, was released yesterday on the Mute Channel’s Freshly Squeezed. The video is abstract and strange, as can be expected from Goldfrapp, and even if the single is a bit more on the pop side than previous efforts, I…
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Give a listen to… Owen Pallett
Owen Pallett, the son of two entomologists — as he describes himself on his Myspace page, is an incredible violinist and composer from Toronto. Pallett’s principle project is Final Fantasy, a mostly solo venture under which the performer has released two albums — 2005’s Has a Good Home and 2006’s He Poos Clouds, which was…
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Bjork attacks… again!
And this time she can’t blame it on her child being in danger. Yesterday, upon my favoriteist crazy bitch’s arrival at the Auckland, NZ, International Airport at 7:50 AM, Bjork attacked Glen Jefrey, a news reporter from the New Zealand Herald. Bjork reportedly tore Jeffrey’s shirt in half, after a man accompanying the Diva of…
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Designers, dykes and tigers, oh my!
As much as I’ve enjoyed the beginnings of Project Runway Season Four, which sports perhaps the queerest cast ever, I often catch myself reminiscing upon the days of my personal favorite season of the show to this point — season two. Particularly the dreamy, though underfed Daniel Vosovic. Based on an interview published earlier this…
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Give a listen to… Kate Nash
20-year-old Dublin songstress Kate Nash’s debut album “Made of Bricks” will finally be unleashed upon the States tomorrow after over a year of critical acclaim overseas, and I cannot find the words to adequately describe the many reasons why this is an album you should most certainly own. Nash’s British accent and quirky song-writing style…
joe erbentraut 