First published at https://www.13thfloor.co.nz/charlotte-gainsbourg-rest-because/#more-98354 Sung mostly in French, Charlotte Gainsbourg’s new album, Rest, is no simple melancholic melodrama. There’s no bitchin’, cussin’ or swooning; no mumbling oaths or references to languid loss or betrayed consciousness. Instead, we find her caught up in a tangle of grief, history and family legacies.
With songs that are dreamy, anxious, bombastic but yet fragile Portland’s beloved 11-piece collective, Typhoon, are everything I love about America’s art rock scene right now. They are Polyphonic Spree, Sufjan Stevens, Grizzly Bear and Portugal The Man all at once. I just wish they’d choose something a bit more
Originally appeared at: https://www.13thfloor.co.nz/estere-the-13th-floor-interview/ Wellington musician Estere Dalton is about to begin her My Design (Part 1) Release Tour, starting in her hometown on December 1. Tim Gruar had a bit of a catch-up with Estere prior to getting this show on the road.
initially from: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/arts/music/grant-hart-husker-du-drummer-dies.html?mcubz=3 Grant Hart, a drummer, vocalist and songwriter for the influential Minnesota rock band Hüsker Dü, died on Wednesday. He was 56.
Not drowning but waving. The cover of Aussie singer-songwriter Paul Kelly’s new album indicates that he’s back in safer waters with a revisit his 1990s pop repertoire. These are the waters that vividly recall his surging pop-rock fortunes of the Nineties. Literally, that’s true. With longtime backing vocalist Linda
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