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...best to recreate Brian Wilson’s genius, but their output almost always comes off as just another Beach Boys tribute. Animal Collective is one of the only bands that takes Wilson’s influence to heart and then expands on it, pushing the conventions of pop music to their outer limits. In large part, that achievement comes because the band never yokes their primal instincts, choosing raw emotive power over restraint in their songs. That’s led to a disparate discography, consisting of eight full-length discs in seven years. As soon as an album?...
...York Times that the bookstores thriving today are those that become more diversified with “a really vibrant cafe, a smart selection of books, and really great non-book items.” My first job was in one such diversified bookstore that sold local music and hummus-laden bagels alongside Rushdie and Stephen King. Opened by two aging hippies, the bookstore was a patchouli-scented downtown institution with walls buried under rainbow flags and Che Guevara posters. The store has survived thanks to its role as a watering hole for the local hippie community. Unfortunately...
...affreux, n’est-ce pas?Hours later, I was asking a French friend about Justice, and I got a blank stare. Hadn’t heard of them. “Oops!... I Did It Again,” he opined, was the apotheosis of pop music. It was depressing. I wanted buzzy synths, enormous sunglasses, robot DJs—I wanted French music. I had expected to find Paris dauntingly cool and found myself instead in a Coca-Colonized country.The traditional notion of the French as stolid anti-Americans is complicated by their love...
Mariam Nazarian, a graduate student in the music department, “found it fascinating how much detail goes into one shot of film” and how “we pay only a couple of dollars to go see [the movie...