Whoever said there are no second acts in America apparently never met Owen Pallett. The versatile artist who once performed under the moniker Final Fantasy has not only survived since shedding the JRPG-inspired name, he has positively thrived between touring with The Mountain Goats, lending a hand on recent releases by Gentleman Reg and Gigi, [...]
In 2009, The Dirty Projectors not only put out an album (Bitte Orca) that hovered near the top of many of the more influential end-of-year rankings (e.g., Pitchfork, Pop Matters, Rolling Stone, etc.), they did something much more difficult. That is, they put out a record that – like, love, or loathe – a writer [...]
If Wild Beasts’ two lead singers were one single dude, they would be the greatest male vocalist ever. On my first listen through the English quartet’s deeply entertaining second record, Two Dancers, I was convinced that Hayden Thorpe and Tom Fleming, rather than two talented singers were, indeed, one mega-singer, kind of like the blue [...]
They hype train regarding Dave Longstreth and Dirty Projectors’ Bitte Orca is moving at a speed fast enough to plow through a mountain, so it’s probably irrelevant to mention the back catalogue of influences that rise to the top in the album, and it’s probably a bit naive to assume our readership isn’t aware of how [...]
Bobby Driscoll died in 1968, a penniless and drug-beaten shell of a 31 year-old man. As a prodigious child of Hollywood, Bobby Dee culminated his career as the voice of the animated Peter Pan, which eerily symbolized his own fate. Peter Pan is canonized because of it’s timeless themes; youthful innocence and the direct defiance [...]
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