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Yoga + Chocolate = Health!?
Nick Nicoludis :: Thursday, January 28th, 2010 1:45 pm
Yoga conjures up images, at least for me, of people sweating in a small wood paneled room, drastically manipulating their bodies in pretzel-like poses searching for inner-peace through the union of the mind and the body. Healthy living seems to be the over-riding raison d’etre of this ancient art, and those who practice yoga (yogis) are constantly harping on the importance of organic food and and ‘healthy’ lifestyles. Recently all of this has begun to change, pitting yogi against yogi in a fight over what a “healthy diet” consists of. Imagine, if you will, lying on a comfy mat in matching sweat pants and jacket you just bought at a yoga boutique on Park Ave, eyes closed, wholly relaxed with your mind cleared, while delicately nibbling on a chocolate truffle. Sounds like heaven! MORE »
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Q&A with Frightened Rabbit
Adam Kearney :: Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 6:00 pm
I talked today with Frightened Rabbit’s front man and creative force Scott Hutchison about his new album “The Winter of Mixed Drinks,” due out in March.
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The “Winter of Mixed Drinks” is a very nautical album. Do you have any history of sailing?
[Laughs] None, whatsoever. I guess that’s why it’s mostly about swimming and drowning. No, I was fucking terrified of going on boats for quite a long time, when I was younger, so, no, I wasn’t heavily into that. MORE »
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More Vampire Than You Require
Stephen Blackwell :: Thursday, November 19th, 2009 5:00 pm
New Moon, the next film installment of the Twilight book series, opens tomorrow. Conservative estimates suggest the vampire teen-love story will exceed the $70.5 million opening weekend Twilight scored, while others suggest the film will gross over $85 million in weekend ticket sales.
True Blood racked up 5.1 million viewers its debut weekend this summer and continued onward and upward as girls swooned over Viking vampire Eric Northman’s story arc.
In music, one of the biggest pop bands of the moment is called Vampire Weekend.
As you know, it’s vampire time. Our culture invests a lot in the fantasy, which is a bit at odds with the election of our first black president, considering vampires are symbols of white supremacy. MORE »
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No Age: Rain Man
Stephen Blackwell :: Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 2:45 pm
In January of 2008, five months before the release of Nouns, I visited No Age in Los Angeles to interview them for the cover of this magazine. I could hear Dean Spunt bashing away on the drums as I rode the freight elevator up to their practice space, a tiny room nestled in the corner of a large warehouse that was built in a part of town epitomizing the other side of the tracks—twenty feet from them, actually. After our introductions the conversation jumped from the salient issue of the day—Heath Ledger had been found dead a few hours before our interview—to punk music, their band, and what exactly these young men made of the buzz circling No Age like a great white.
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An Interview With Discovery We Never Printed
Kristopher Yodice :: Friday, September 4th, 2009 12:39 pm
Rostam Batmanglij and Wes Miles have been busy. Besides being members of Vampire Weekend and Ra Ra Riot, two of the last few years most buzzed about indie bands, the duo has been absorbed in a five-year electro-pop collaboration that is laced in a synth smeared soundscape with lots of handclaps, reverberating 808 bass, pitch shifting vocals and sixteenth note high-hats.
The album entitled LP, released on July 7, features guest appearances by Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig and Dirty Projectors‘ Angel Deradoorian and is an addictive set of pure pop songs - engaging, effervescent and at times heartbreaking. Rostam Batmanglij and Wes Miles took some time off from their busy schedules to talk about the debut Discovery album, modern art, Jamaican riddims and Japan’s romantic setting.
