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IN CONCERT: Angel Olsen’s Mirror-Erasing Magic

November 28, 2019November 28, 2019 Justin Joffe 0 Comments All Mirrors, Angel Olsen, Burn Your Fire For No Witness, Kate Bush

What Angel’s self-actualized songs taught me about being a true partner

New Wave

PREMIERE: DOOMSQUAD’s “Let It Go” Video

October 29, 2019October 29, 2019 Justin Joffe 0 Comments Bella Union, DOOMSQUAD, DOOMSQUAD live, Ejji Smith, Gutzon Borglum, Hudson Yards, Let It Go, Let Yourself Be Seen, Market Hotel, Richard Serra, The Vessel, Toronto

After the Toronto band’s video for “Let It Go” was scrubbed from digital existence by the very forces it criticized, DOOMSQUAD return a new cut, along with their thoughts on the death of public art and shared spaces

Indie Rock New Wave

Art As Survival: A Chat With Dan Boeckner

July 1, 2019July 1, 2019 Justin Joffe 0 Comments Dan Boeckner, Devojka, Handsome Furs, I Feel Emotion, Operators, Radiant Dawn, Wolf Parade

How Operators conceived sci-fi synth masterwork Radiant Dawn in the shadow of late-capitalism

Experimental Indie Rock North Americana Punk

Ray Concepcion: A Collage of Thoughts

June 17, 2019June 18, 2019 Justin Joffe 0 Comments An Obelisk, Bob Mould, Patrick Stickles, Ray Concepcion, ST@CKS, Titus Andronicus

The Brooklyn DIY documentarian on his long, storied relationship with Titus Andronicus

Electronic Folk

Correspondence from Bibio’s Bubble

April 19, 2019April 19, 2019 Justin Joffe 0 Comments Bibio, Stephen Wilkinson, Warp Records

On Ribbons, Stephen Wilkinson continues to explore the vast gray space that occupies his songcraft

Psychedelics Rock

IN CONCERT: Animal Magnetism

April 8, 2019April 12, 2019 Justin Joffe 0 Comments Animal Collective, Avey Tare, Brooklyn, Domino Records, Market Hotel, NYC Taper

Avey Tare tears it up at Brooklyn’s Market Hotel

Pop

Julia Holter Cages Chaos in Brooklyn

March 1, 2019April 11, 2019 Justin Joffe 0 Comments Brooklyn, Julia Holter, Warsaw Polish National Home

The L.A.-based art pop chanteuse delivers a performance for the ages at Warsaw

Glam Rock

Under A Cherry Moon

February 27, 2019April 11, 2019 Justin Joffe 0 Comments Bowery Ballroom, Cherry Glazerr, Delicate Steve

Cherry Glazerr dissolves L.A. alt-rock archetypes with a mischievous, powerful thrust

Experimental Pop

DIY, Not Lo-Fi

February 22, 2019February 22, 2019 Justin Joffe 0 Comments Bar-None Records, DIY, R. Stevie Moore

R. Stevie Moore Sets the Record Straight

Dub/Reggae

JÄH DIVISION Reunited, Making Nostalgia Irie Again

February 4, 2019 Justin Joffe 0 Comments Brooklyn, Jah Division, Joy Division, Kid Millions

In a time when most either reject nostalgia or embrace it wholeheartedly, a Brooklyn dub tribute band dares us to present in the groove

Electronic Folk Pop Punk Rock

Mexican Summer Celebrates 10 Years of Heady, Smart Sounds

November 23, 2018November 23, 2018 Justin Joffe 0 Comments Anthology Editions, Anthology Recordings, Ariel Pink, ARP, Mexican Summer

The boutique Brooklyn label threw itself a multi-stage, day-long birthday party

Soundtracks and Film Scores

On the Welcome Resurgence of the Art Film Soundtrack

November 15, 2018November 15, 2018 Justin Joffe 0 Comments Netflix, Soundtracks, Thom Yorke, Wild Wild Country

The unsettling score to Wild, Wild Country makes me happy that weird soundtracks are cool again

Rock

Waking From a Dream

November 1, 2018November 1, 2018 Justin Joffe 0 Comments Jagjaguwar, Moonface, Spencer Krug, Sub Pop Records, Sunset Rubdown, Wolf Parade

A conversation with Spencer Krug about his epic final bow as Moonface, a labyrinthine headtrip made of dream and myth

Country and/or Western Rock

Artful Americana

October 20, 2018October 21, 2018 Justin Joffe 0 Comments 1998, 20th Anniversary, David Berman, Drag City, Pavement, Silver Jews, Stephen Malkmus

20 Years Later, The Silver Jews’ ‘American Water’ remains a profoundly surreal document of otherness at home

Rock

Ridin’ the Riff and Rollin’ With the Flow

October 18, 2018October 18, 2018 Justin Joffe 0 Comments Billy Ray Cyrus, Busting Grills, Chavez, Cypress Hill, Kurt Vile, Matador Records, Matt Sweeney

At a private Q&A to celebrate his new album Bottle It In, we learned how Kurt Vile’s studio perfectionism illuminates his slacker style

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