Editor’s Picks March 11-13

March 11th, 2010Posted in Editor's Picks image

This will be a rollicking weekend, though sadly I will be rollicking on another continent. Classic invader countries/people Finland and Mongolia send dudes, as do the 20th century experts who brought us a newer, subtler, but unmistakably invasive kind of invasion: the USA and USSR. Man the barricades!


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St. Vincent’s “Actor”

March 9th, 2010Posted in Album Reviews image

She’s definitely been written about before, but since St. Vincent is coming to YuYinTang this Saturday I will try my hand at defining her.


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DJ Vadim’s “U Can’t Lurn Imaginashun”

March 8th, 2010Posted in Album Reviews image

1999 was a long time ago, but it doesn’t really feel that way, does it? Maybe this is because The Aughts Decade never really spawned a true zeitgeist identity, but it undermines the fact that a decade has passed, a long time to continue to show and prove in the hip hop game.


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Shanghai, Dance for Haiti

March 7th, 2010Posted in Live Music Reviews image

Charity rocks and/or rolls. And makes for some wonky shows.


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St. Vincent’s “Actor”

She's definitely been written about before, but since St. Vincent is coming to YuYinTang this Saturday I will try my hand at defining her.



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DJ Vadim’s “U Can’t Lurn Imaginashun”

1999 was a long time ago, but it doesn’t really feel that way, does it? Maybe this is because The Aughts Decade never really spawned a true zeitgeist identity, but it undermines the fact that a decade has passed, a long time to continue to show and prove in the hip hop game.



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Fading Horizon’s “Name it Yourself”

Just like the horizon divides earth and sky, Name it Yourself hovers in a no-world of shifting questions and polarities.





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