Author: Rob Rubsam
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Concert Review: Carnegie Hall – Arvo Pärt
The Feedback Society’s Rob Rubsam goes to Carnegie Hall. Not with practice, as the joke goes, but to be moved by Arvo Pärt’s transcendent music. I am in the cheap seats at Carnegie Hall. Well, the cheapest I could find, anyway: $30 for an obscured-view ticket in the fourth balcony, up something like nine sets…
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Concert Review: Brooklyn – Stars of the Lid
Show Review: Stars of the Lid w/ Wordless Music Orchestra at The Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Sunset Park Brooklyn The train ride from Poughkeepsie to New York passes the Palisades, Bannerman’s Castle, Bear Mountain (the farthest north Kerouac travels in On the Road), Indian Point. The factories and the gravel mine…
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Interview: Domovoyd’s Oskar Tunderberg
Let’s be honest with ourselves for a minute: most doom metal treats you, the listener, like an idiot. I don’t just mean because of the genre’s plodding nature, its emphasis on the groove; all that’s fine enough. But the problem is that so many bands seem to think that’s all they need. Take Electric Wizard:…