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Literary Mixtape: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
If you’ve ever wondered what your favorite literary characters might be listening to while they save the world/contemplate existence/get into trouble, or hallucinated a soundtrack to go along with your...
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Literary Mixtape: Seymour Glass
If you’ve ever wondered what your favorite literary characters might be listening to while they save the world/contemplate existence/get into trouble, or hallucinated a soundtrack to go along with your...
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10 Albums You Need to Hear in August
The last couple of weeks have been a pretty dire time for album releases, but happily, there’s respite to be had in August — there’s a fair selection of worthwhile records due out over the next four...
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Watch Antony and the Johnsons’ New Video with Willem Dafoe and Marina Abramović
This morning, we woke up to this haunting video for the previously unreleased title track from Antony and the Johnsons’ new live album, which drops tomorrow, and we have to admit, we were a little...
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Incredibly Detailed, 3D-Printed Visualizations of Entire Albums
Experimental digital media, music, architecture, and sound art lab Realität — founded by Juan Manuel de J. Escalante — has created 3D-printed visualizations of different albums. The unique sculptural...
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Pop Quiz: Amazon or Christgau?
Yesterday we ran a series of hilariously negative reviews of classic albums, and noted at the time that we could have cited several more from the inimitable Robert Christgau, a man who’s never been shy...
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The 20 All-Time Best Lyrics About Sex
Last week, we ran a feature on some of the most ridiculous and cringe-inducing lyrics about sex that pop music has given us over the years. A couple of commenters asked whether we’d be running a...
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Beautiful Carpets Juxtapose Pop Song Lyrics With Traditional Turkish Textiles
Selma Alaçam, a Karlsruhe, Germany-based artist, fuses the two halves of her identity in a lovely, striking project she calls heartstrings. Her series of kelim — flat, handwoven carpets native to her...
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10 Albums You Need to Hear in November
While this month may be a dead zone for big pop albums (way to delay The Pinkprint, Nicki), classic rock and indie rock dominates November with a number of marquee releases. Dylan’s Basement Tapes...
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We Will All Howl: Antony Hegarty on the State of Transfeminism
“They announced two weeks ago that in the last 40 years, the number of wild animals has dropped by one-half, and we’re expecting a 50 to 70 percent extinction event of all species by the end of the...
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Antony Hegarty Denounces Pope Francis for His “Shameful and Pathetic” Meeting...
The Vatican admitted that Pope Francis had met secretly with Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis during his U.S. tour last week. Davis’ lawyer told The New York Times that the Vatican had initially wanted...
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