• 3/23/2010

    1    RUBY SUNS    Fight Softly    SUB POP 2    DINOSAUR FEATHERS    Fantasy Memorial    Self-Released 3    XIU XIU    Dear God, I Hate Myself    Kill Rock Stars 4    BEST COAST    “When I’m With You” [Single]    Black Iris 5    MIDLAKE    The Courage Of Others  … Read more

  • 3/9/2010

    1 BASIA BULAT Heart Of My Own 2 YOU SAY PARTY! WE SAY DIE! XXXX paper bag 3 PHANTOGRAM Eyelid Movies Barsuk 4 JAVELIN No Más Luaka Bop 5 MUMFORD AND SONS Sigh No More Glassnote 6 WOODHANDS Remorsecapade paper bag 7 RUBY SUNS Fight Softly SUB POP 8 CLINKER On The Other Side… (for… Read more

  • 3/2/2010

    1 BUTTERFLY BONES Pretty Feelings EP 2 GALACTIC Ya-Ka-May ANTI- 3 LOCAL NATIVES Gorilla Manor Frenchkiss 4 PRINCE RAMA OF AYODHYA Zetland 5 TORO Y MOI Causers Of This Carpark 6 WENDYL HUNT Sunshine Noir Dragon’s Eye 7 WOODHANDS Remorsecapade paper bag 8 DINOSAUR FEATHERS Fantasy Memorial 9 PHANTOGRAM Eyelid Movies Barsuk 10 JAVELIN No… Read more

  • The Music of Flamenco

    I spent the first couple days of my Vassar spring break in Madrid and was lucky enough to see a flamenco performance at the Teatro Español.  The performance was based on an elegiac poem by Federico García Lorca and featured the music of Enric Granados, a classical Spanish composer.  Granados was born in the Catalan… Read more