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Zola Jesus
The astoundingly prolific Nika Roza Danilova–alias Zola Jesus–is releasing her third LP, Conatus, this month. Conatus (that’s Latin…
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Art Spiegelman
The years of research for Art Spiegelman’s two-part Pulitzer winner filled countless notebooks, sketchpads, and audio tapes, much…
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Yelawolf
Yelawolf has split audiences with his ear-piercing voice, and choppy delivery, but has dropped a couple of good…
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Washed Out
Sub Pops score from the great chillwave bonanza of 09/10, Washed Outs Ernest Greene deals in slow-mo synth…
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Suzanne Morrison
Suzanne Morrison was a 20-something wisecracker with a smoking habit when she left Seattle in the winter of…
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Erasure
Go ahead and put the synth-pop label on Erasure, yet it doesnt hint at even a fraction of…
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Alien/Aliens
Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi classic Alien had its world premiere at SIFF. (That’s right, its world premiere! Respect.)…
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Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) is nothing if not sensuous about violence. Perhaps lyrical would be closer to the…
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Neon Indian
Chillwave survivor Neon Indian headlines, but (even more) atrociously named new Ghostly International signee Com Truise is worth…
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Robert Earl Keen
Texas native and Americana singer-songwriter Keen’s raspy voice lies perfectly between the political ravings of Steve Earle and…
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John Lithgow
Chances are you think of him as a killer: the Emmy-winning kind who enlivened Dexter on Showtime; or,…
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Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All
At the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago this summer, I missed the planned protest against LA rap group Odd…
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Shot-for-salivating-shot, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes boasts the highest wow quotient of anything in the formidably ecstatic Marilyn Monroe oeuvre.…
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Chip Tha Ripper
It seems like each Chip Tha Ripper track is accompanied by the same unsettling rise in anticipation: a…
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Retox
Compared to Justin Pearson and Gabe Serbianâs previous anarchic noise fests, such as the Locust and Holy Molar,…
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The Digital Eye
Selected from the Henry’s deep photography holdings, The Digital Eye considers how the medium has changed in era…
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The Pajama Game
If at times The Pajama Game seems less like a musical than a play interlarded with a revue,…
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Hector Acebes
Certain tropes of photography, particularly images of half-naked Africans during the colonial era, are always going to be…
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September Skies
In playwright/director Jim Moran’s bittersweet new romance, Dave, a New York entrepreneur in a loveless marriage, and Amy,…
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Jerry Seinfeld
Didja ever notice… What is the deal with that? Man hands, high-waisted jeans, the close talker, the Soup…