Blog Grid
Inspired by the magazine layout, Grid makes neat and clean appearance. It is always a good layout to start with.
Alessandro Cortini
Turns Up the Tension
On Yann Tiersen Track
Photo EMILIE ELIZABETH Ask most people what they associate Yann Tiersen with, and they’ll probably mention the French musician’s seminal Amélie score. Tiersen’s pieces line up with Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s acclaimed film so perfectly, it’s easy to forget that many of them were actually taken from Tiersen’s own solo albums. The movie’s “whimsical” reputation did another […]
MJ Guider Makes Us a
Mix In the Spirit of Her
College Radio Show
Words + Mix MJ GUIDER Photography CRAIG MULCAHY In 2011 I signed on as a DJ at my local college radio station WTUL, starting an “experimental” show called Night Gallery when there wasn’t much like what I wanted to hear on the air at the time. My first slot was from 3 to 6 a.m. […]
Chris Korda Shares Her
Favorite Odd Time Songs
Photo ALEXANDER KURZ Words CHRIS KORDA Odd time was the height of musical fashion in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I heard many of the songs below as a child, and developed a lifelong fascination with odd time as a result. These odd time influences predisposed me to discover complex polymeter and use it […]
Penelope Trappes Shares a
Spellbinding Nico Cover
Photo AGNES HAUS Penelope Trappes has shared the second official single from her upcoming Eel Drip EP (Houndstooth, October 23rd). Much like her Colin Newman cover a couple years ago, “Afraid” strips Nico’s source material down to its bare essentials and amps up the atmospherics. Rather than rely on the original’s piano-led progression, Trappes lets […]
Vatican Shadow Makes
Us a Mixtape of Metal
Intros and Interludes
Photography SVEN MARQUARDT Dominick Fernow has always been hesistant to explain the hard-wired concepts that ripple across his Vatican Shadow records. Much like an elusive filmmaker, he’d rather produce a pervasive mood. Militaristic and menacing, Fernow’s tightly laced dance loops speak for themselves, reminding us of something Fernow said in an early self-titled interview: “Dancing doesn’t […]
Meitei Explains Nine
Things You Oughta Know
About Japanese Culture
Like many outsiders, we were fascinated by a very specific vision of Japan at first — the one that’s bathed in neon and beamed from the near future. And yet, the more time we spent there, the more complicated this picture became. While there’s no denying the inherent draw of, say, a Robot Restaurant or […]
Stream Gabriella Smart’s
Entire Performance of
Alvin Curran’s Epic
Inner Cities Series
Words GABRIELLA SMART Alvin Curran belongs to a long line of pianist composers who speak through their instrument as philosopher, poet, dancer, comedian, lover. His passion for the piano is visceral. As an interpreter I can read a composer’s personality through their music; Alvin’s psyche is one that that I never tire of. He has […]