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Rock ’N’ Roll Fantasy Stripped Bare
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Dean Wareham onstage last month in Toronto.
BLACK POSTCARDS
By Dean Wareham
Penguin Press, 324 pages, $25.95
Another slog through Europe, and Dean Wareham, respected, almost-famous singer and guitarist, is finally realizing that elusive rock ’n’ roll fantasy. An Andalusian beauty with a “fantastic chest” is making eyes at him through the whole show. Afterward, she takes him home. She’s a flight attendant, and rather than slip into something more comfortable, she actually dons her uniform for the night’s proceedings. His conscience goes missing as they cavort until dawn. His penance begins when she sings him her favorite song: “More Than Words,” by Extreme. read more »
DeFonte’s and Bliss
Erik Johnson
In Red Hook, an old-school sandwich makes life worth living. read more »
Lovelorn Will Oldham; Ambient Album Leaf
Steve Gullick
Will Oldham, a.k.a Bonnie
A chorus on Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s new record, The Letting Go (Drag City), begins read more »
Lovelorn Will Oldham; Ambient Album Leaf
A chorus on Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s new record, The Letting Go (Drag City), begins with a fami read more »
Hold Steady! It's Wolf Parade!; Also, Waits, Beck, John Legend
In the beginning of September, Beyoncé celebrated her birthday and Justin Timberlake brought the se read more »
Hold Steady! It’s Wolf Parade!; Also, Waits, Beck, John Legend
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Beck in Chelmsford, England, Aug. 19.
In the beginning of September, Beyoncé celebrated her birthday and Justin Timberlake brought read more »
Midlake Revives Soft Rock; Touré’s Melodic Farewell
Courtesy of Midlake
Midlake will ease into the Mercury Lounge on July 28 and 29, and slide over to Southpaw on July 30.
Revivals of long-gone genres are nothing unexpected. read more »
Midlake Revives Soft Rock; Touré's Melodic Farewell
Revivals of long-gone genres are nothing unexpected. read more »
Stevens Negotiates a Roadblock; Oneida Takes a Quick Detour
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The peripatetic Sufjan Stevens.
You’re not likely to hear a Sufjan Stevens song floating out of the tinny hidden speakers next read more »
Stevens Negotiates a Roadblock; Oneida Takes a Quick Detour
You’re not likely to hear a Sufjan Stevens song floating out of the tinny hidden speakers next tim read more »
Road Trips for Buddhists Who Listen Very Carefully
Ben Chasny, a.k.a. Six Organs of Admittance.
A musician who arranges the tracks of an album as if it were destined primarily for a double-faced p read more »
Road Trips for Buddhists Who Listen Very Carefully
A musician who arranges the tracks of an album as if it were destined primarily for a double-faced p read more »
Burma Extends Second Act, Refines Aural Assault
In the years after the explosion of punk, the underground was left with a challenge: Keep up the ene read more »
Burma Extends Second Act, Refines Aural Assault
In the years after the explosion of punk, the underground was left with a challenge: Keep up the ene read more »
Destroyer’s Topsy-Turvy Idea Redeems Bejar’s Theatrics
Courtesy of Merge Records
A mannered voice: Dan Bejar of Destroyer.
There are performers you can’t enjoy unless you learn to ignore or tolerate some aspect of the read more »
Destroyer's Topsy-Turvy Idea Redeems Bejar's Theatrics
There are performers you can’t enjoy unless you learn to ignore or tolerate some aspect of their m read more »
Rogers Sisters, Mission of Burma; Morrissey Follows Up Comeback
Michelle Martin
The Flaming Lips.
New York’s cool kids have been keeping busy: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Fiery Furnaces, the Walk read more »
Rogers Sisters, Mission of Burma; Morrissey Follows Up Comeback
New York’s cool kids have been keeping busy: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Fiery Furnaces, the Walkmen read more »
Aping British Boogie Rock, Belle and Sebastian Get Loud
Once, after listening to a plaintive cello line on one of Belle and Sebastian’s early albums, a fr read more »
Aping British Boogie Rock, Belle and Sebastian Get Loud
Rough Trade Records
Belle and Sebastian playing it straight, with Stuart Murdoch winking in the center.
Once, after listening to a plaintive cello line on one of Belle and Sebastian’s early albums, read more »
A Year for Consolidation: Pop Music on the Rebound
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Before the long silence: Vashti Bunyan in 1965.
Hipsters can’t claim to have made any amazing discoveries in 2005, but it did feel healthy to read more »
A Year for Consolidation: Pop Music on the Rebound
Hipsters can’t claim to have made any amazing discoveries in 2005, but it did feel healthy to go t read more »
Ornette Coleman
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It’s been almost half a century since Ornette Coleman released his Atlantic records debut. read more »
Ornette Coleman
It’s been almost half a century since Ornette Coleman released his Atlantic records debut. read more »
The Swedish Invasion, Moody-Crooner Contingent
Rasmus Hass, 2004
Not-so-shaggy-looking Swede: Jens Lekman
If, in recent years, the U.S. read more »
The Swedish Invasion, Moody-Crooner Contingent
If, in recent years, the U.S. read more »
Man and Machine Make Music, A Pleasing Electronic Hybrid
One branch of the electronic-music family tree—though a solid limb, more than a decade old—has n read more »
Man and Machine Make Music, A Pleasing Electronic Hybrid
E. Keegin; Courtesy of Boards of Canada
Intelligent rock music, anyone? Boards of Canada and the Mobius Band (above), who will perform at Sin-
One branch of the electronic-music family tree—though a solid limb, more than a decade old&mda read more »
Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
Saul Bellow, Nobel laureate and dean of Jewish-American fiction, passed away on Tuesday, April 5. read more »
Cohen: New Spin From an Old Ceremony
For more than three decades, Leonard Cohen has been our great bard of late-night melancholy, our bar read more »
