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Monthly Archives: September 2011

09.29.11

The Best Covers of Summer 2011

As has been mentioned previously, even culture takes a vacation in summer.  For most of you, this is not a big deal: you happily clear your minds of entertainment detritus while enjoying a nice bike ride or a dip in the lake.  But, for the list-maker, the media slow-down is kryptonite; how to make a...
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09.28.11

Make Your Grandma Proud

Sometimes I think I already am a Jewish grandmother.  Let’s look at the facts: I love knitting, I think soup can cure anything, and I seamlessly insert Yiddish words into my sentences.  What do you think, bubbelah?  Do I pass the test? Regardless of whether or not you have/are a Jewish grandma, I wanted to...
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Grandma's secret recipe
09.27.11

Sad Sad Songs – Ray Lamontagne at Central Park Summerstage

Ray Lamontagne has three kinds of songs: sad songs, really sad songs, and excruciatingly sad songs. A few hours after his wrenching performance at the Central Park Summerstage last night, I flipped on the season premiere of The Office to see a pregnant Pam sobbing as she listens to “Trouble,” the title track from his...
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Ray Lamontagne
09.26.11

Gosling Noir – A Review of the Drive Soundtrack

The trailer for the new film Drive promises heavy action, car chases, and a hot romance with a heroic Ryan Gosling.  Both the film and its soundtrack, however, are more quietly subversive than its marketing suggests.  The film’s Danish director, Nicolas Winding Refn, has created a moody neo noir that defies audience’s expectations.  Recalling the...
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09.23.11

Your Live Life: Chicago Fall Concerts

As some of you know, I recently moved to Chicago from Washington, D.C. On a daily basis, I am shocked at the size of Chi-town, be it in number of residents or just the distance between two points. I moved to Ukranian Village, just off Wicker Park, aka Chicago’s Williamsburg. One of the benefits that...
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Your Live Life: Chicago Fall Concerts
09.22.11

Exit Light – Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax @ Yankee Stadium

We meet at the corner of 51st and Lex, my friend with a mix of scotch and Acai Berry Punch in a plastic bottle, me with a Coors Light “Tall” in a brown bag. We’re old school (semi-closeted) metal heads, and we blend with the rest of the NYC working world. My wife bought the...
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Anthrax warms up the crowd at Yankee Stadium
09.20.11

Ideas of Reference: An Annotated Guide to Das Racist’s Relax

Post-modernism was slow to come to rock music.  Indeed, it wasn’t until the late 80s-early 90s that rock finally became comfortable mixing the high and the low, finally allowed itself to become humorous and self-deprecating.  Hip-hop, by contrast, is fundamentally post-modern.  Cutting up old songs to construct new songs, using the record itself as an...
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Das Racist - Relax
09.16.11

Separate but Equal: Thoughts on A.V. Fest

In many ways, Frontier Psychiatrist is indebted to the A.V. Club. Like the cultural arm of the satirical newspaper The Onion, we dig for the deeper meaning in plain pop culture trends, be it ambition, degradation, reflection or abstraction. We’re both children/teenagers/adults of the 90s. We err on the side of obsession towards objects and ideas that...
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09.14.11

You Say ToMAYto, I say ToMAHto

In the days of yore, my family had a small but adequate garden in our backyard.  We only grew summer vegetables, so I, of course, assumed that August was the only time that one could harvest vegetables in New York State.  And so I impatiently (ignorantly) awaited our homegrown bounty of each August: peppers, cucumbers,...
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09.07.11

Your New Favorite Brunch

England is a lovely place, full of friendly people and laid-back pubs, and famous for such wonders as The Beatles, Big Ben, and Pippa Middleton’s rear.  But, let’s be honest, its culinary reputation is not exactly stellar.  Last week I shipped off to the UK for a wedding/vacation, and spent the week before that mentally preparing myself...
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My very own fry-up
09.07.11

Words & Pictures (for sub-literates): The Invisibles Volume 1

 ”The argument goes like this:  Words are good.  You can win the Nobel Prize for words.  Pictures!  Pictures are good.  They hang in a museum.  BUT, if you combine words and pictures you’re automatically doing something intended for children or sub-literates.”  -Neil Gaiman, author of  The Sandman and Coraline (Jared Thomas is back with the...
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09.06.11

Frontier Psychiatrist Fall Preview

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Nelsonville Music Festival 2013
Lollapalooza Brasil 2013
South by Southwest 2013
Brilliant Corners Festival 2012
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Newport Folk Festival 2012
Pitchfork Festival 2012
Northside Festival 2012
Bonnaroo 2012
South by Southwest 2012
Bonnaroo 2011
Lollapalooza 2010
Outside Lands 2010
Best of 2012
The Best of 2012
Top 30 Books of 2012
Top 10 Poetry Books of 2012
Top 10 Psychedelic Albums of 2012
Top 10 Hip-Hop Albums of 2012
Top 10 Metal Albums of 2012
Top 10 Debut Albums of 2012
Top 10 Reissues of 2012
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