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Arcade Fire and Google Team Up to Create a Chrome Experiment: The Wilderness Downtown

by Red Beard on September 2, 2010

Google, Arcade Fire and Chris Milk have created an HTML5 music video specifically for the Chrome web browser. It's also tailored to the individual viewer. Oh and kind of bad-ass. The most important part of this for Google is showing off HTML5, or what I like to call Flash Killer. (Flash is not quite dead, but a ...

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Soapboxes, Heartbreak and Applicable Scrutiny

by Chin Curtain on July 15, 2010

Bob Dylan

"You keep lyin' when you oughta be truthin'" -- 'These Boots Are Made For Walking', Nancy Sinatra There's something you must know if you ever make a habit of reading my music columns. It's not something I like to admit and there's definitely an element of shame involved as an avid, knowledgeable lover of music but ...

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Breaking the Law: Listening to Music During a Flight Take-off

by Chin Curtain on June 30, 2010

The reason Loveless is perfect for flight take-offs is due to the record’s hazy dissonance.

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Black Beard’s Review of Musicians Everyone Has Already Discovered: Jack White

by Black Beard on May 15, 2010

I watched the documentary It Might Get Loud recently, which made me certain of something I’ve long suspected: Jack White is the most interesting musician around today. Now, for many years I struggled to reconcile my enjoyment of The White Stripes with my skepticism about Jack White’s attempts to strictly control their image. Actually, it ...

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YouTube Pulls M.I.A.’s “Born Free” Video

April 28, 2010

Of all the shit on YouTube, M.I.A.’s new video is the one they pull. After you watch it, you’ll understand why. It can still be found in some areas of YouTube with an age verification option, but those may be pulled also.

“Born Free” is a very graphic video depicting Americans as an occupying force out [...]

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Black Beard’s First Ever Review of Live Music: Spoon

April 21, 2010

Recently a friend and I attended the Spoon concert at Radio City Music Hall, a show I enjoyed but my friend did not, which, of course, led to a discussion of what we did and did not like about the performance. This conversation, in turn, led me to devote even more time to the contemplation [...]

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Black Beard Finds His Socrates

February 27, 2010

I met up with my friend McKenzie Davis, a fellow writer, recently at KGB Bar in New York.  McKenzie is a voracious discusser of all things—most ridiculously, when we both lived in Boston, we once spent the better part of a half-hour hashing out the fundamental qualities that must be in place for food to [...]

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The New(est) Islands Record: Vapours

January 4, 2010
Islands Vapours Album

For bands in the all too broad category of Indie Rock, especially the ones your niece has heard of, musical content has taken a Chevy Suburban-sized back seat to looking sharp and sexy in a sleeve-rolled plaid button down. Even the drummers give a commendable attempt at intellectuality… intellectity… trying to look smart.

That said, the new [...]

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