Music & Performing Arts

Grace & Other Precious Remedies

Jul 20, 2012 7 min read Music & Performing Arts Precious Remedies against Satan's Devices The Welcome Wagon

There’s a new album out by The Welcome Wagon [http://www.mbird.com/tag/the-welcome-wagon/], and it’s called Precious Remedies against Satan’s Devices [http://thewelcomewagon.bandcamp.com/]. The music is

At Least I Author My Own Disaster

Jun 15, 2012 4 min read Music & Performing Arts music Of Montreal

“The past is a grotesque animal,” begins the eponymously titled Of Montreal song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2p9fDJsHNo]; “and in its eyes you see / how completely wrong you can be.” What

Machine Girl and Her Remedies

Jun 1, 2012 8 min read Music & Performing Arts music

When I first heard a song by Lana del Rey, I was tipsy-drunk and wondering whether or not we were going to run out of alcohol in the midst of an escalating party.

Can Anyone Make Me Less “Miserables?”

Jun 1, 2012 6 min read Film & Television Music & Performing Arts Film Musicals singing YouTube

The more I go over it, the more I’m torn on how to react. My instinct is to despise and dismiss. But many viewings of the trailer for the new film interpretation

The Tyranny of Taste

May 11, 2012 5 min read Music & Performing Arts Tunecore YouTube

George Eliot once said, “I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.” She would have loved our modern era. It seems that we have

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