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Young Bloods Find God: A Review of Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City

BY KEITH MEATTO Vampires have surpassed their pop culture saturation point, thanks in part to the HBO series True Blood and the Twilight series of books and blockbuster movies. Literary types can enjoy Karen Russell’s latest short story collection Vampires in the Lemon Grove while couch potatoes can watch a new commercial where suburban vampire...

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Representing the South: An Interview with Darryl Reeves

BY DANIEL BEAUREGARD Darryl Reeves considers himself a true southerner. Born into a musical family in Mississippi, the saxophonist studied music at Jackson State University, then completed his masters at the University of New Orleans, where he studied with legendary trumpet player, composer, and bandleader Terence Blanchard. Growing up in Miami in the 90s, Reeves...

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Tales of Brave Ulysses: An Interview with Russ Kaplan

BY KEITH MEATTO In Homer’s epics The Iliad and The Odyssey, Odysseus spends 10 years fighting the Trojan War and 10 years trying to get home. Pianist, composer, theater director, and former a capella geek Russ Kaplan has spent nearly as long interpreting The Odyssey for contemporary audiences. In 1998, as a young theater director,...

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Hello, Olá, Hola: Lollapalooza Brasil

BY ANDREW HERTZBERG What am I doing at Lollapalooza Brasil? I know zero Portuguese, there’s a #Lolla in my own city of Chicago, and it smells like shit because instead of big, beautiful downtown Grant Park, I am listening to music in the...

The Chilean Connection: Föllakzoid and The Holydrug Couple

BY PETER LILLIS With a limited number of players in select “hip” markets covered by an echo chamber of a blogosphere, the American independent music world can seem limited. Meanwhile, cities across the globe are cultivating their own robust, unique and exciting scenes that are largely unknown to even serious American music fans. As we...

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Ultra Nostalgia: A Review of Kavinsky, Outrun

BY TIFFANY HAIRSTON A car crash merges a teenager with the spirit of his Ferrari Testarossa, reanimating him as a zombie ghostrider visible only to the girl he loves. Despite the intro’s cheese-tastic setup , French electro pop phenom Vincent Delorgey’s debut album Outrun tears out of the gate and delivers as an unabashed tribute to...

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No Need to Be An Asshole: A Review of Foxygen’s We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic

BY JORDAN MAINZER Somebody get me a moustache, a Seven and Seven, and an ugly carpet: Indie rock bands in late 2012/early 2013 are reviving Seventies song-talkers. First, Brooklyn foursome Parquet Courts released the amazing Light Up Gold, an album FP’s Peter Lillis labeled “2012’s answer to 1976’s self-titled debut from The Modern Lovers.” Now,...

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From Old Men to Ogres: A Review of Alan Light’s The Holy or the Broken

BY JORDAN MAINZER “Haaaaa-lle-luuuuuu-jahhhh.” During the first few weeks of my Freshman year of college, a few people hanging out in my friend’s room starting singing the American Idol favorite. I can’t remember whether it was the Leonard Cohen original, or the Jeff Buckley or John Cale version or a medley of the three. All...

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Nothing Ever Stays the Same: Yo La Tengo @ The Vic Theater

BY JORDAN MAINZER It was a big day coming. On Friday, February 1st, at the Vic Theater in Chicago, Yo La Tengo treated an eager audience to about two and a half hours of material spanning their almost thirty-year-old career. Playing most of their excellent new album Fade and a variety of cuts from some...

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Brush The Dirt Up Off My Psyche: An Interview With Hiro Murai

BY JORDAN MAINZER A true Renaissance man, music video director Hiro Murai has worked with the likes of St. Vincent, Earl Sweatshirt, and David Guetta (yes, David Guetta, making his FP debut). I recently spoke with Murai over the phone about his creative process, his inspirations, and why he has a case of musician envy....

YOLO Tengo: A Review of Fade

BY JORDAN MAINZER It’s better to burn out than to fade away. So goes an aging rocker’s lament, one that has transcended Neil Young’s original lyric and appeared in many a cultural touchstone, from Jack Black’s hilarious diss of Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Called To Say I Love You” in High Fidelity to Kurt Cobain’s...

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Where’s the Bass Drop, Bro?: An Essay on Maximalist Electronic Music

BY JORDAN MAINZER Believe it or not, there’s a world of intermediates in between womp-womp-womp and John Cage. Much to the chagrin of geezers, electronic music is at the forefront of today’s music world. Skrillex, Deadmau5, and Avicii are headlining festivals, taking spots previously occupied by jam bands and hip hop artists, and hip hop...

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