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David Gray – Life in Slow Motion

Review — November 19, 2005

I'd like to begin this review by thanking the kind people at Dictionary.com and Google.com for their unwitting assistance in the writing of this here review. God bless you. boring adj. Uninteresting and tiresome; dull. boring adv. boringness n. Synonyms: boring, monotonous, tedious, irksome, tiresome, humdrum These adjectives refer to …

David Moore – My Lover, My Stranger

Review — October 11, 2009

My Lover, My Stranger is the first solo record from David Moore, formerly of Chamberlain and Split Lip. It is difficult to imagine Moore extricating himself completely from a self-imposed anonymity in order to refashion himself as some indie country troubadour, but from the sounds of this, at times, intimate …

Explosions in the Sky with David Wingo – Prince Avalanche Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Review — December 8, 2014

The soundtrack for the 2013 film Prince Avalanche, created by instrumental rock group Explosions in the Sky in collaboration with David Wingo, has to be considered one of the most strange and potentially divisive albums in the band’s repertoire. Though the group gained notoriety when they were featured extensively …

David Bowie – ★ (Blackstar)

Review — January 11, 2016

David Bowie has always stood outside the lines. In the last decade or so, every album release came as a surprise of sorts: no media circus or worldwide promo tour. Each release showed Bowie slipping into his older years with something more stable stylistically. Here on his 69th birthday we …

David Bowie – A New Career in a New Town

Review — November 13, 2017

I have successfully broken my brain trying to find something new to say about David Bowie. I believe it to be absolutely impossible to speak in new terms on what the musician, actor, artist, and fashion icon meant to the the worlds he showed up in. Countless of us who …

Music / The Set List: 5 Acts Not To Miss At... Beacons Festival 2013

Feature — July 29, 2013

Boasting a packed, diverse lineup of bands and musicians, Beacons Festival has something for everyone. These are the acts which have caught our eye and are sure to catch yours too... 1. Danny Brown Sunday, Loud And Quiet stage, 19:00 The Detroit rapper has hit the busiest stage of his …

Music News: The Mavericks of Lone Star Punk: the book

News — March 8, 2020

In late February, Bazillion Points books published a new book titled Texas Is The Reason: The Mavericks of Lone Star Punk, which compiles essays and black and white photos archiving and exploring the Texas punk scene, beginning in 1978. With a rich local history that includes the Big Boys, the …

Shows: Levitation 2019 lineup news

News — July 27, 2019

Scheduled for Nov. 7-10, 2019, Levitation has unveiled phase 2 of lineup announcements for the annual Austin, TX festival. Big names -- and there are many -- include The Flaming Lips, Flipper (with David Yow), The Coathangers, Windhand, Tobacco, Deafheaven, Russian Circles, Chelsea Wolfe, Kurt Vile & the Violators, and …

Labels: SKiN GRAFT No. 150

News — October 25, 2022

For Halloween -- oh, and to mark the 150th release of the label -- SKiN GRAFT Records has released a new 15-song cassette featuring all new and exclusive tracks. Released last Friday, Oct. 21, the tape includes material by David Yow, Jim O'Rourke, new projects from members of Dazzling Killmen, …

Bands: Polyvinyl 4-track series, volume 2

News — November 12, 2014

Polyvinyl Records has announced the return of their 4-track singles series in which bands record on a traveling Tascam 4-track cassette recorder that was passed along from one musician to the next. Artists to be features in volume 2 in 2015 include of Montreal, David Bazan, Deerhoof, and Crooked Fingers, as well …

David Bowie: A Retrospective Of An Artist

Blog — January 11, 2016

As fans many draw a close relationship with their favorite artists. For whatever reason a personal statement shared within this realm seems to strike many in a very serious way. there are many musicians that cross realms of art into new ventures to varying degrees. it could be argued that …

Casper David Friedrich by Johannes Grave

Blog — March 24, 2018

Casper David Friedrich Johannes Grave Prestel   One would not be far off the mark by claiming that Casper David Friedrich’s oeuvre encapsulates the DNA of German romanticism. While his paintings are inextricably hardwired to the German psyche and books on CDF are manifold, Johannes Grave’s tackles the theme from …

David Baddiel @ Seymour Centre

Blog — September 16, 2018

David Baddiel Seymour Centre Sydney, Australia September 14, 2018 Full disclosure: I had no idea who David Baddiel was prior to attending his Sydney incarnation with his unvarnished one-man stage show My Family: Not The Sitcom, which is thematically cantered around (the loss of) memory, ageing, infidelity, dysfunctional relatives, moral …

Henry David Thoreau: A Life book review

Blog — November 17, 2018

Henry David Thoreau: A Life Laura Dassow Walls University of Chicago Press   Henry David Thoreau. A luminary of American literature canon. A Life is more than a mere biography – Dr Laura Dassow Walls integrates Thoreau's life with his writings and thereby highlights his naturalistic and scientific interests in …

Someone Is in my House by David Lynch

Blog — January 12, 2019

David Lynch Someone is in My House Prestel Publishing   With a myriad of projects spanning across a plethora of disciplines and media, David Lynch has established himself to be a bit of a renaissance man, who idiosyncratic approach to art pervades every emission no matter if it is film, …

Caspar David Friedrich: Nature and the Self

Blog — March 20, 2020

Caspar David Friedrich: Nature and the Self Yale University Press   Classifying Caspar David Friedrich’s oeuvre and paintings as “atmospheric” would be an understatement par excellence. The way CDF channelled his alchemy and the intricacy with which he  outlined figures lost on musings on the need to be and contemplation …

David Sedaris – “Holidays on Ice” and “Calypso”

Blog — October 8, 2020

David Sedaris – “Holidays on Ice” and “Calypso” Hachette Australia   David Sedaris is many things – accomplished author, radio host and humourist but first and foremost a master when it comes to observation of the human condition and the often comical side-effects and faux-pas, which he sheds light on …