When we invest 96 Sundays into a series that should have ended four stale seasons ago, we don’t want a fairytale ending — we want shit to go down. Dexter could have left with dignity. It could have spun full circle with poetic justice, blindsiding viewers by what we claimed to want but suddenly regret. …
I didn’t tear up during Austra’s heart-wrenching “Home,” with Katie Stelmanis’ opera-trained vocals and strong repetitive keyboard transitioning into upbeat —but still terribly lonely— electro-pop. I wasn’t alone in my car this time; I was at a dive-bar and venue in East Atlanta called The Earl, staring at Stelmanis’ knee-length culottes and platform shoes, the…
Watching an elegantly primped, expensively dressed Cate Blanchett in Woody Allen’s newest film, Blue Jasmine feels less like a night of Cristal and tiny hors d’oeuvres and more like a bender of room temperature vodka and plastic orange Xanax bottles. Before you’re completely intoxicated, it’s a bitter mouthful to swallow. Jasmine (Blanchett) is introduced to…
It’s only fitting that the Meansville, Georgia-based psychedelic-rock trio, Acapoco, define their sound as a “powerful backdrop for you summer cookout.” After all, their single is titled “Yard Rock”, their artwork is a photograph of the three blurred in the grass, and their sound mimics the atmospheric nature of a summer night spent chillin’ with…
*SPOILER ALERT if you’re not caught up. Don’t get pissed. I warned you.* [youtube id=”6ckzE5vT0wc” width=”600″ height=”350″] June 30th is the night. And it’s going to happen again and again, every Sunday until September 15th. It will all be over soon. Dexter’s fate will finally be unmasked, and viewers will see the series for what…
Two years since David Lynch’s “Pinky’s Dream,” the release of his upcoming album, The Big Dream, is creeping along quite nicely, with Lykke Li’s whispered hint of a far sexier and more surreal theme of an album that may indeed be much bigger and better than its predecessor. “I’m Waiting Here,” the Lykke Li/David Lynch…
After about six and a half years of waiting, the Bluths could have had us thinking they’d never come back for us— but that’s why you always leave a note. Thankfully, they left us a few. Here are the ones we’ve gathered at Vinyl Mag: 1. From the trailer, it looks like… Michael is moving,…
When the Flaming Lips released In a Priest Driven Ambulance, I was a trembling fetus nestled in my mother’s womb. When I was nine, the band was radiating mainstream attention, but I didn’t know because no exceptionally cool third-grader brought The Soft Bulletin to show-and-tell. And when I was 12, Yoshimi was battling the…
In today’s culture, size definitely matters. As a rule of majority, we tend to take a mere glance at something before moving onto the next big thing. It’s just how the Youtube era works — brevity and catchiness are vital elements needed to grab viewers long enough for them to actually finish watching a video….
Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm – a2 (Official Video) from Erased Tapes on Vimeo. In the midst of holiday festivities, insanity settles in. Perhaps Ólafur Arnalds had this in mind when he posted the Michael Zoidis & Jodie Southgate video for his and Nils Frahm’s collaboration song, “a2”.