Issue 21
Listen To D+T’s Drinking Mix
Isaac Lekach :: Friday, September 11th, 2009 12:51 am
DT contributor Max Goldblatt put together the ultimate drinking playlist for our last issue. Follow this link to his blog where the compilation is streaming. Enjoy!!
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Tiny Vipers “Workin’ Woman”
Amelia Kreminski :: Thursday, September 10th, 2009 6:16 pm
Jesy Fortino used to be a big asshole. It’s a surprising truth—puzzling, even, when one considers her gentle stage presence as Seattle-grown singer-songwriter Tiny Vipers, her resonating, dark chocolate voice, and her melodious acoustic plucks. She may confuse fans with her general placidness and waifish modesty in public, but do not be fooled—Jesy Fortino is much more than just another sensitive folk singer with an acoustic guitar and a pure heart. Hers is an expansive tale, filled with intrigue, Dungeons and Dragons, shit-faced yuppies, and, yes, a dark past as a self-confessed asshole. But that’s why we love her: because, let’s face it—we’ve all been there too. MORE »
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Japandroids “Just The Two Of Us”
Drew Fortune :: Thursday, September 10th, 2009 5:07 pm
The Japandroids are somewhere outside of Ontario, on a dark, lonely stretch of road, and the bottle rockets are starting to fly. I’m on the phone with guitarist/vocalist Brian King, and I can hear the bottle rockets zinging out the car window and exploding in the night sky. The two-piece garage rock revisionists are on the road following a high-profile gig at the Ottawa Blues Fest and spirits are high. And why shouldn’t they be? Brian King survived a near death experience at the beginning of the year, a perforated ulcer which demanded a six week re-cooperation, resulting in the band postponing their first major tour. MORE »
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Foreign Born “Lights, Camera, Action”
DJ Pangburn :: Thursday, September 10th, 2009 4:32 pm
“I was a hotel spy for a week filling in for my friend,” Matt Popieluch tells me during my interview with the band he fronts, nascent pop rockers Foreign Born. “I would go around to these hotels in the morning, for three hours every day of the week, and I’d walk around and look at the kiosk where they were showing who was meeting there that day, like Verizon Wireless in the Veranda Room. I would say it into the tape recorder, and these messages would be mailed to some company in Nebraska.” MORE »
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Issue 21, On Issuu
Stephen Blackwell :: Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 1:55 pm
Death+Taxes 21 is now available on stands and online. The online version of our magazine is available through Issuu — click HERE to check it out (or click the Issue 21 On Stands Now Thingy on the right side of the page). There you can participate in all sorts of hackneyed web activities like leaving us comments, following us, and so forth. Issue 21 of Death+Taxes: highly memorable; President 21 of The United States of America, not so much.
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Phoenix “The French Connection”
Isaac Lekach :: Friday, September 4th, 2009 3:16 pm
On a Friday in late June the D+T staff painted their office wall pink. That night French pop group Phoenix played the second of two sold-out shows in New York. We had made arrangements to photograph them beforehand, but as the day progressed it looked like that plan might collapse. The band had more than a few commitments to honor and ours was the latest addition to an already tight schedule: They had to replace a piece of musical equipment that failed them the night before at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. There was a performance for Spinner to tape—which ended up running late—sound check, and our photo shoot. So we took a cue from the cover art of Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, their latest album, and painted the wall pink.
