Tag: review
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St. Vincent – St. Vincent
The brilliant new St. Vincent album has been making tidal waves; it embodies the digital age while at the same time eschewing our digital lives. Back in the day, I took a Women and Gender Studies course that focused on women in music. One subject that repeatedly came up was how critics like to focus…
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Sleepy Sun – Maui Tears
San Francisco’s psych rock outfit Sleepy Sun were riding a runaway train of street cred, not only with their albums ‘Embrace’ and ‘Fever,’ but also by touring through the darkest holes in North America, putting on free shows, which they did in my hometown a couple of years back. However, we all got a serious…
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Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography – Jimmy McDonough
Neil Young recently took some heat in Canada for his comments about the Alberta oil sands, leaving him open to be right wing cannon fodder by hyperbolically comparing the oil sands to Hiroshima, as well as for the supposed hypocrisy of driving around in a tour bus. These ad hominem attacks on Young were all…