Dec 03, 2018
By Mark Redfern
Holiday Gift Guide 2018
Welcome to part 4 of our Holiday Gift Guide 2018, in which we highlight collectibles. Political comedian and TV host Bill Maher, of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, recently got in hot water for writing on his blog right after the passing of legendary comic book writer Stan Lee about how Lee’s creations and comic books in general had helped dumb down America and pave the way for a reality TV star to be elected President.
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Nov 29, 2018
By Charles Steinberg
Web Exclusive
The experimental post-punk-electronic band Liars, formerly a composing tandem of Angus Andrew and Aaron Hemphill – and now just Angus – took a welcome step over the line this year with their score to the independent film 1/1, starring Judd Nelson and Lindsey Shaw and written and directed by avid fan Jeremy Phillips.
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Nov 28, 2018
By Frank Valish
Web Exclusive
With 1975-77, Hozac Records unearths pre-Church Steve Kilbey’s Baby Grande, in all its glory.
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Nov 27, 2018
By Mark Redfern
Holiday Gift Guide 2018
Welcome to part 3 of our Holiday Gift Guide 2018, in which we highlight some of our favorite tech products from the year. Technology’s march into the future continues unabated and unless we all get wiped out by some natural disaster or pandemic, or the artificial intelligence systems we create go all Terminator on us and launch all our nuclear missiles, we need to get used to a more plugged-in future.
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Nov 16, 2018
By Madeline Kenney
Web Exclusive
For My Favorite New Band we ask an established artist to tell us about their favorite new artist. This installment is by Madeline Kenney, who writes about Dante High.
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Nov 12, 2018
By Helena Deland
Helena Deland
Vision Quest is our recurring series where an artist writes about one of their music videos, from the concept to the execution. For this edition Montréal’s Helena Deland writes about her video for “Claudion.”
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Nov 06, 2018
By Jonathan Meiburg
Loma
To help motivate our American readers to get out to the voting booth today, we’ve asked some musicians to share words of encouragement. In this piece, Jonathan Meiburg of both Shearwater and Loma writes about the one election choice he once made that he sincerely regrets.
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Nov 05, 2018
By Steve King
Nine Inch Nails
If you’re like me the last couple years have been… challenging. Public discourse is toxic and even the people on your side of the aisle are annoying the shit out of you. There are too many damn Nazis. Every other news story is about sexual assault.
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