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We’ve all been in that situation where we’re trying to figure out who the hell to catch at a music festival. So I did all the dirty work for you, of course. I went down the schedule day-by-day and hour-by-hour and chose the people who in my opinion you can’t miss. Don’t worry about having to write down names and acts just print it out here and if you happen to see me around the festival I’ll be glad to kiss it.
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Spike Jonze's I'm Here Soundtrack
Released by Chocolate Industries
“I’m Here. A love story in an absolut world.” Unless director Spike Jonze is actually referring to the vodka, an “e” should follow the “t” in “absolut,” then conveying a pure world, an unconditional world, one that is complete, and perfect in quality and nature. But there is no “e” at the end of “absolut.” And the world that Spike Jonze illustrates in his robot love story is far from perfect.
“I’m Here” introduces us to a society where humans and robots co-exist, a simple reality that needs no rationalization ...
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Words cannot describe the performance that I witnessed this past Saturday night in midtown Manhattan — and it was all thanks to one tiny opening act with bizarre hair and a voice too big for any earthly venue to contain. To be fair, Of Montreal had an interesting set (to say the least). But while I appreciate the imagination behind gun-toting cyborg goldfish costumes and evil skeleton-men; I can’t really get down with the androgynous, super-poppy art-rock fusion thing. The set-opening performance of their new single, “Coquet Coquette,” was probably their strongest offering; and fortunately, before completely exhausting my memory card, I was able to capture the aforementioned fish-robots that accompanied it, as well as Janelle’s set-ending, crowd-infiltrating performance of “Come Alive (War of the Roses).” I could give a complete run-down of the entire set-list and detail every little …
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False Priest
Released by Polyvinyl
Kevin Barnes is one of the finest pop craftsmen in the business and it’s precisely because he—and his band, of Montreal—doesn’t play by anyone else’s rules. From the tricked out cover art designed by Barnes’ wife and his brother to guest vocalists Solange Knowles and Janelle Monae to the hybrid of the heartfelt and the humorous, False Priest is one of the year’s most indispensable releases.
The Athens, Georgia based quintet follows up the seminal releases of Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? and Skeletal Lamping with a bristling collection of tracks mixing Barnes’ brand of psychedelia with R&B influences and a heady dose of Parliament-Funkadelic.
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