Suite relief

By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG | June 10, 2009

Longstreth says he's aware of some of the advance gushing and even some hype-averse backlash — it would be impossible to avoid either — but he's taking everything with a huge grain of salt. "As R. Kelly says, I'm less concerned about who's right and who's wrong than what's right and what's wrong."

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ARTICLES BY MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG

BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL | October 27, 2009
Alison Sudol, the LA-based artist who records and performs as A Fine Frenzy, just loves it when I bring up the first show of her first-ever tour.

HE, HIMSELF, AND HI | October 19, 2009
“I was always the kid who hated to do group projects at school because I always thought I could work better on my own.”

FLY BY NIGHT? | September 08, 2009
For a decade, Eric Johnson's primary songwriting vehicle has been Fruit Bats, but the Portland-via-Chicago singer and multi-instrumentalist has always dipped in and out of other projects — Califone, Vetiver, Ugly Casanova among them.

SUITE RELIEF | June 10, 2009
For Longstreth, the pressure's been ratcheted up following the online leak a couple of months ago of Dirty Projectors' fifth LP, Bitte Orca (Domino) which is finally, officially out this week.

BIT PLAYERS | June 05, 2009
What do you get when you cross NYU music-technology majors just out of their teens, vintage Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy gear, traditional rock-and-roll instruments, a mysterious, robot-building fellow named José with half a middle finger on one hand, and a shadowy underground network of info-spreading Swedes? No.