June 2010
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Take Cover! David Bazan vs. Bob Dylan →
For the foreseeable future, I’ll be taking over MAGNET’s Take Cover! column, which each week features a great and/or recognizable song and a standout cover of the same. This week, I take a look at David Bazan’s cover of “The Man in Me” by Bob Dylan, a song that defined 1998’s The Big Lebowski.
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Geeta Dayal on the Sad Decline of Support for... →
The veteran arts writer was commissioned to write the eighth installment in a series of essays on “The Future of Music Criticism” for German newspaper Die Tageszeitung (taz). She discusses how vanishing ad revenues have not simply caused the dissolution of entire print magazines, but have nearly killed the support for thoughtful commentary on music, as well. Highly recommended...
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Q&A: Balmorhea →
I had the great fortune of interviewing Michael Muller from Balmorhea upon the band’s return from their most recent travels abroad and the piece ran today for Magnet. In addition to the Q&A, a tour journal entry and pictures will run on Magnet’s website once-a-day Tuesday through Saturday, wherein Muller & Co. will document this particular adventure.
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Watchbalmorhea:
“Made In Me, a UK children’s video game that Balmorhea recently scored with all original music has some snippets from the game up online.”
Austin instrumental ensemble Balmorhea, who released one of my favorite records of this aging year, have given us yet another reason to be endeared to them. The small amount of the video game score that can be heard here sounds great,...
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“California Gurls;” Or, Class it Up, Katy
Update (2:53PM, June 16th): Can’t seem to keep an embedded video live, so am now referring readers to MTV’s stream of “California Gurls.”
If I’m honest, most of my music listening life has been spent as a snob in one form or another. In high school, it was an incredibly specific set of punk and hardcore bands,...
Sasha Frere-Jones: You, the D.J. →
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