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  • Paavoharju, Yhä Hämärää, and the Enticing Charm of the Unknown and the Unseen

    Everything about the Savonlinna-born group’s ethos and aesthetic is drawn from the esoteric, from their uncanny, unexplainable album covers to the magical, free-form quality of their music, which can veer from weightless ambient ballads to chip-tuned psychedelic folk to full-on electronic club-thumpers with minimal downtime. The group often sounds like they’re tethered between this reality and the next, making music that appeals as much faeries as it does to regular human beings — not to mention that nearly every picture of the band looks like it could have — or may have — been taken in a dilapidated woodshed in the dead-center of Lapland.

  • IT’S IN THE NAME! How A$AP Rocky’s Don’t Be Dumb Reflects the Mature Leisure Route to Life. 

    The album is inverting in on itself, track to track. It is a warning for those who take themselves too seriously to loosen up, and a reminder to pay close attention. A lot has changed between album releases for Lord Pretty Flacko Jodye. He became the father of three kids. Became a partner to long-time collaborator, Rihanna. Was the face of many campaigns from Ray-Ban to Dior. Safe to say he has secured himself even more so from where we left off in his Discography. Don’t Be Dumb has its lesson in the name; it’s up to its listeners to take it into account.

  • Tommy february6/heavenly6: The Many Sides of Tomoko Kawase

    Tomoko Kawase has gone by many names. Her music career started in 1995 when she was asked to join The Brilliant Green, a pop rock band, as lead vocalist. In 1998, the group got their big break with the single, “There Will Be Love There.” Tomoko’s strong voice leads the light strumming guitar through a compelling song, which went number one after being featured in a TV show. The Brilliant Green continued to rise for a few years. After the release of The Winter Album, the group decided to pursue solo projects. And so there was Tommy february6.

  • Staff Pix 2/7: 2016

    “Don’t Hurt Yourself” By Beyoncé, Jack White On “Don’t Hurt Yourself”, Beyoncé first asks “Who the fuck do you think I is?” before telling her “boy” that he can watch her fat ass twist as she bounces to the next dick. BOOM!!! 2016 was Beyoncé’s year to be pissed and “Don’t Hurt Yourself”  is pure…

  • Profile of a Rockstar-Turned-Author: Gary Lachman on Blondie to the Occult

    When Gary “Valentine” Lachman departed punk-rock group Blondie in 1977, he had no plan for what lay ahead. Since then, Lachman has formed his band The Know, toured with Iggy Pop, earned a philosophy degree from California State University, managed the famous new-age bookshop Bodhi Tree Bookstore, relocated to London, been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as part of Blondie’s lineup, and written 26 books—about consciousness, his time with Blondie, the occult, and other fascinations.

  • Searching for an Afterglow? A Review

    EUSEXUA is the moment. Afterglow is the chaos that follows. The anarchic comedown of promise and mourning. Your head is still in the clouds, but your feet have landed on the ground. This album grows on you like the smudge of eyeliner after a long night, proof of evolution out of experience. Then it stays with you like the rhinestone you find behind your ear on a Tuesday. Afterglow, the sister album to EUSEXUA, continues the conceptual design of the FKA twigs universe. twigs is notorious for reinventing herself with each album, pushing the boundaries of her artistic experimentation in both sound and movement. Afterglow is the first release without a “new” twigs, but a continuation of the twigs she has spent the last two years building—it is arguably one of the strongest musical campaigns of our time. This record takes time to hook you, but put yourself on the city streets at 4 a.m. and you’ll be overcome with a glow of sorts.

  • Staff Pix 1/30: Soundtrack!

    “Everybody’s Talkin’” by Harry Nilsson (In Midnight Cowboy) Harry Nilsson’s “Everybody’s Talkin’,” is the ghost that haunts Joe Buck’s journey in Midnight Cowboy. Despite only appearing as a whole in the film twice, motifs and cuttings extracted from the larger body make themselves known throughout, usually overlaying scenes of Joe exploring New York and generally…

  • Documenting the Dirt Road

    Design by Sophie Parrish By Ronan Canzoniero Emerson alum Zac Poulin shoots Amherst based art-rapper DJ Lucas’s interviews on Down The Dirt Road With DJ Lucas.  Each episode focuses on musicians from a different state where the Appalachian mountains reach. Such as Industry Standard from Glen’s Falls, NY, who makes what he calls “Glen’s Falls…