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Blame the Zeitgeist: Girls, Modernism, and Lena Horvath

BY WILL KENTON Sometimes, when the weight of pop culture sits on my head like a palette of cinder blocks, I find it calming to get in touch with my high culture roots. So I went to see the MOMA exhibit “Inventing Abstraction: 1910 to 1925,” in part because it is the 100th anniversary of...

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Voice of a Generation? A Review of Lena Dunham’s Girls

Do we really need another person on the Internet writing about the oft lauded and oft criticized self-indulgence that is Lena Dunham’s HBO show Girls? Hasn’t everybody from The New Yorker’s Emily Nussbaum to, um, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar written about it enough? Well, no. Anytime a show claims to be the voice of a generation –as Girls essentially did...

From left to right: Lena Dunham, Zosia Mamet, Jemima Kirke, and Allison Williams in HBO's Girls

SXSW 2012: Mess With Texas Photo Gallery

As discussed in our recent journal, Mess With Texas (aka MWTX) has been the highlight of SXSW thus far. We hope these photos from the party will convince you.

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South by Southwest Journal: Volume 2

Strolling through Austin on day two of our visit, we realized that South by Southwest is something of a Woodstock for the 21st century, in the sense that it is a cultural event that perfectly encapsulates its era. Whereas Woodstock represented a time of love and unity and drugs, “South By” (as the locals call...

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The 50 Best Albums of 2011: 10-1

(All week we’re counting down the top albums of 2011. For previous entries on the list, click here. We hope you enjoy the music.) 10. Balam Acab – Wander/Wonder In 2010, with critically acclaimed releases from young artists like James Blake and How To Dress Well, the re-purposing of classic R&B became all the rage. Of...

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The 50 Best Songs of 2011: 20-11

(All week we’re counting down the top songs of 2011. For previous entries on the list, click here. We hope you enjoy the music.) 20. Shabazz Palaces feat. THEESatisfaction – “Swerve… the reeping of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding)” A lot of adjectives could be used to describe our #1 hip-hop album of the year, Shabazz...

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The 10 Best Music Videos of 2011

I have written extensively about music videos this year, likely spilling much more virtual ink than was necessary in the process. So, for this year-end countdown, I will repress my instincts and allow the visuals to speak for themselves. Please feel free to post your own favorites in the comments box below. Let’s begin.

Pop Music Will Save Your Soul: Reviews of M83, Girls, and Youth Lagoon

I remember my first break-up. Well, not exactly: I remember the anger, the isolation, and the despair, but I don’t remember the location where it occurred, or the time of day, or the time of year, or the course of the conversation. I suppose I remember almost none of the specifics. In fact, there is...

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The Top 5 Music Videos of September 2011

I have long trumpeted the virtues of the music video, an art form that sadly had its public outlet terminated 15 years ago just as it was reaching maturity. The work produced in September 2011 justifies my efforts. Throughout the year we have been conducting monthly music video countdowns, but no month has been quite...

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The Top 10 Videos of July-August 2011

The summer was a slow time for new music releases, but it proved a spectacular time for new music videos. There were so many outstanding releases over the past two months that we had to exclude clips from site favorites like St. Vincent, Fucked Up, and Bon Iver. Given that we did not publish a...

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