March 11th, 2010Posted in Editor's Picks

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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tags: Baru - Boys Climbing Ropes - Chris Trzcinski - Dave K - DJ Vadim - EJ Parker - Fortune - Hanggai - HBD - Illusion Trio - Jue Festival - JZ - Lawrence Ku - LTJ Bukem - MC Conrad - Mike Brownell - Niklas Winter - Node - Oleg Roschin - Split Works - St. Vincent - Teemu Viinikainen - The Shelter - V-Nutz - Wassili - Yarah Bravo - YuYinTang
March 9th, 2010Posted in Album Reviews

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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tags: 2009 - Actor - Folk - St. Vincent - U.S.A.
March 8th, 2010Posted in Album Reviews

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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tags: DJ Vadim - Free the Wax - Hip Hop - The Isolationist - UK - Yarah Bravo
March 7th, 2010Posted in Live Music Reviews

Charity rocks and/or rolls. And makes for some wonky shows.
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tags: Duck Fight Goose - Lions of Puxi - Monroe Stahr - Studio 188 - Three Chord Truth - Weghur
Reviews

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.

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.

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.