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Gift Guide: Tangible tunes

We may be the last generation to give tangible tunes for Christmas
I personally find it comforting that the current number-one single in the country has a chorus that goes "I'll gas up the jet for you tonight, and baby we can go wherever you like."

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | December 11, 2008

Interview: Wire's Colin Newman

47 releases in, Wire can still get it up
In the annals of rock-and-roll-origin stories, Colin Newman, singer/guitarist for the pinned-down cynical conceptualist rock band Wire, has one of the odder ones.

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | October 02, 2008

Mirror ball

Fables of deconstruction
The stirring pop hits of the day can’t help but reflect the refracting cracked mirror of our nation’s increasingly emotion-laden psyche.

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | September 08, 2008

At home away from home

CSS take on the world — again
“We love all the pop stuff.” says Sá. “We do love the Pixies, but we also love Mariah, you know?"

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | August 05, 2008

The new girl

Katy Perry storms the boys’ club
“I am the pink in a sea of darkness.”

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | July 15, 2008

Sweet and lo-

Your cynicism is no match for Times New Viking
“You know, sometimes capturing the cleanness of how everything sounds is a futile attempt,” says Times New Viking vocalist and keyboard slapper Beth Murphy.

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | June 24, 2008

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