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Dub Trio
Has Dub Trio written the best album of 2008? Author Jamie Ludwig catches the band on the road and learns how the Brooklyn trio has become louder, heavier, and less constrained. Photos by Bryan Sheffield. |
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Sigur Ros
In 2006, epic Icelanders Sigur Ros spent the summer touring their homeland in unconventional locations (an abandoned fishery, a wayward valley, community centers, village squares). Footage of the tour, under the care of director Dean DeBlois, became Heima, a stunning DVD. Author Whitney Kassel speaks with the band. |
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Prefuse 73
Guillermo Scott Herren, aka Prefuse 73, has recorded a modern classical album to sample and rework into a separate entity. Herren talks to ALARM about the risk of packaging both discs together and releasing them as Preparations. |
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Coheed and Cambria
Coheed and Cambria’s Claudio Sanchez talks with Waleed Rashidi about recording the new record with old friends and offers his opinion on being compared to Geddy Lee. |
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Magnetic Fields
Stephin Merrit fills ALARM’s Connie Hwong in on his magnitude of musical projects, and the inspiration behind the songs on the Magnetic Fields’ latest album, Distortion. |
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Taravat Talepasand
Author Analisa Goodin speaks with artist Taravat Talepasand on rolling blunts with Iranian currency, appropriating coveted Iranian paintings with tattoos and bottles of whisky, and turning the chador into a sexy, sensuously revealing cloth. |
Music Features
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The Cancer Conspiracy
Zozobra
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Art, Books & DVDs
Singing Bridges: Sound artist Jodie Rose turns bridges into instruments
NCC: Lost Control
Best Music Writing 2007
Punk House: Interiors in Anarchy
War Posters: Weapons of Mass Communication
Making A Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York |
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