Archive for June 2011
A Breath of Dense Air: Shabazz Palaces – Black Up
Posted by: Peter Lillis on: June 30, 2011
- In: Band Profiles | Music | Record Reviews
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Is it just me and the rest of the internet, or has 2011 been a year of game changers? We’ve seen a lot of great, forward thinking tunes come down the pipe, and it’s only (almost) July. Ishmael Butler—formerly Butterfly of Digable Planets, now Palaceer Lazaro of Shabazz Palaces—has put another wrinkle in the already more [...]
Brains for Dummies – A Review of Incognito by David Eagleman
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: June 30, 2011
- In: Book Reviews | Books
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How do baseball players catch fly balls? Is Mel Gibson really Anti-Semitic? Are murderers culpable for their crimes? Did Pink Floyd read Carl Jung? These are some of the questions raised in Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, a new book in which David Eagleman blends his expertise as a neuroscientist with his skill [...]
Frontier Gastronomy: Incredible and Edible, Indeed
Posted by: freyabellin on: June 29, 2011
If you have ever written off eggs as basic or boring, I have a secret to tell you: eating truly fresh eggs can be a transformational experience. It’s like taking a bite of a perfect June strawberry that reminds you what real strawberries taste like. In that same way, farm-fresh eggs just taste eggy-er. The [...]
A Brief History of Punk Ambition: Part 2
Posted by: L.V. Lopez on: June 28, 2011
- In: Music | Record Reviews
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(Yesterday, inspired by Fucked Up’s new concept double-album David Comes to Life, we set about charting the history of the ambitious impulse in punk rock. Today, we continue the series up to the present day. You can read the first part of the column here. We pick up in 1988 with one of rock music’s [...]
A Brief History of Punk Ambition: Part 1
Posted by: L.V. Lopez on: June 27, 2011
- In: Music | Record Reviews
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Three weeks ago, the six-piece Canadian punk band Fucked Up released David Comes to Life, a record which is likely to stand as their magnum opus and one of the best of 2011. It’s an 18-song, 77-minute epic about a lightbulb factory worker named David who falls in love with a young activist named Veronica, [...]
Frontier Videology: Young Bjork
Posted by: L.V. Lopez on: June 22, 2011
Fifteen-year-old Björk performing with KUKL, one of her first bands. I guarantee you weren’t this talented when you were in high school. And for those of you who speak Icelandic, there’s an interview with band member Einar Örn Benediktsson after the song.
The Best Covers of Spring 2011
Posted by: L.V. Lopez on: June 20, 2011
In the previous entry in this series, we pointed out how Winter 2011 had been a largely regressive period for indie music. By contrast, the Spring has proven overwhelmingly innovative. Bands like tUnE-yArDs and Battles have brought a sense of adventure to traditional indie pop, and Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon has continued his career-long project [...]
Frontier Photography – Susan Worsham
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: June 17, 2011
Some Fox Trails in Virginia This series of photographs is taken in and around Virginia, the place where I grew up. The title comes from a book written by my father’s ancestor about the lineage of the Fox family. For my own purpose, it acts as a metaphorical map of the rediscovered paths of my [...]
We Have To Go Back: Bonnaroo 2011
Posted by: Peter Lillis on: June 17, 2011
For four days, my seven friends and I were residents of the city of Bonnaroo, population 85,000. This is our story. We left DC at about eight in the evening, and drove through the night. Somehow driving over two states equaled 12 hours. Thursday was rough. We arrived at the campsite (“The Island”[1]) around eight [...]
All Up in My Grill
Posted by: freyabellin on: June 15, 2011
- In: Food
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Those of us living in major urban areas often suffer from grill withdrawal. Without backyards or patios, we are relegated to using stove-top grill pans, which leave those lovely dark lines on our food, but only serve as reminders of the grilling we have merely imitated. There’s nothing quite like that smoky char from a [...]
