January, 2011 | Frontier Psychiatrist

All Sounds Like a Dream: A Review of Destroyer’s Kaputt

The time has come for devoted fans to admit: Destroyer is never going to make it big. The band’s mastermind, Dan Bejar, has been churning out records under the Destoyer moniker since 1996 (when you were either in high school or college), and yet you’ve likely never heard one of his songs. In fact, if...

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The Top 5 Music Videos of January 2011

Because we still care about music videos, and we think you should too, each month we’ll be bringing you our five favorites from the previous 30 days. In our first installment, we find murder, intrigue, robots, broken furniture, and the Japanese. Please enjoy: 5. Sleigh Bells – Rill Rill Just one man fewer between you...

Frontier Mixology: FP Originals

Over the past nine months the Frontier Mixologist has taught us all how to get inebriated in a cultured, historically informed fashion. While we have learned a great deal about certain classic cocktails (the Manhattan, the Negroni, the Jack Rose), we have also been treated to five never-before-mixed cocktails, drinks conceived and lab-tested in the...

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French Women Eat A Lot of Dairy – Nonfiction by Micaela Blei

After a sad, sugarless breakfast, during which she watched her boyfriend eat a large crepe with Nutella and bananas, she went to la pharmacie. The sky was gray and sad; it had been for days. Inside the wide glass doors she saw two people behind the counter: an older gentleman, whose attention would be extremely...

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A Sixth Helping of Cake – Review of Showroom of Compassion

Showroom of Compassion (Upbeat Records) is the first new Cake release in seven years. Best known for their 90s break out hit “The Distance” and 2001 chart topper “Short Skirt/Long Jacket”, they continue to deliver more of their signature head nodding grooves and funny lyrics. In his signature off-beat and snarky manner, vibra-slap master and...

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Even Washingtonians Get the Blues: The Dismemberment Plan Reunite

Despite what many Washingtonians may say, life is good. We haven’t had too many WMATA faulted deaths, we’ve had a better winter than most and even Congress is trying to be “bipartisan”, as evidenced by last night’s national pat on the back State of the Union Address. But in order to “win the future“, as...

Hercules and Love Affair – A Review of Blue Songs

Hercules & Love Affair’s impressive debut included “Blind,” a pulsing, emphatic dance track (featuring the lovely, melancholy vocal of Antony Hegarty of Antony & the Johnsons) that ushered in a throwback to long play disco. On their sophomore release Blue Songs, band mastermind and New York-based DJ Andy Butler assembles another collection of soulful dance...

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Bike Snob – Book Review by Will Kenton

I have a friend, a novelist, who lives in Jackson, Wyoming. You probably know Jackson as the home of great skiing and Dick Cheney. It features spaces so wide open they had to order an extra-big sky, and mountains so perfect a couple of French guys named them “the big tits” (i.e. Grand Tetons). This...

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Tennis, Anyone? – A Review of Cape Dory

Though the album cover is decidedly ‘80s-inspired, the music on Tennis’s debut album Cape Dory goes even further back, recalling the atmospheric instrumentation of Santo & Johnny’s “Sleepwalk” and the sha-la-la’s of early ‘60s girl groups. The songs on this new release are about adventures on the high seas, but the music brings to mind...

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Frontier Mixology: Lion’s Tail

As Dean Martin put it, “Baby, it’s cold outside.” Indeed. As Dino well knew, it’s the time of year where the holiday glow has receded, and a good cocktail is needed to lift the winter gloom. To such end, an ingredient that always seems to make sense around now is Pimento Dram. Banish all connotations...

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Indiephemera Friday: Remembering Trish Keenan of Broadcast

With shifts in music distribution from the radio and record store to the internet, the music-listening public has become increasingly fractured. For every recently emergent band that seems to have staked its place in history (Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, Animal Collective), there are 50 artists that are beloved by a niche audience, whose best shot...

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Hex – Fiction by Jess Lacher

On the day my grandmother died, she put a hex of despair on our house, a bad one she’d been working on for months. Both her eyes and her spirit of civility failed her towards the end, and one of the few things she still seemed to enjoy was threatening my parents with the hex....

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