June 2009

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• Film

  Moon

  06.21.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Moon

  Every couple of years or so a quiet film with a limited audience and a limited release captures my attention so convincingly that I have to drag every person I know to the theater the moment it shows itself within fifty miles. In the past these have been directed by an Aronofsky or Miyazaki [...]

• Music

  Nineteen Hundred and One

  06.19.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Following up on Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, Phoenix just kicked off their U.S. promotional tour for the new album last night with a nearly album-perfect rendition of "1901" on Late Show with David Letterman. Phoenix packs up and heads back to Europe at the end of June, so catch them while you can!

• Music

  Rock Me, Amadeus

  06.17.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

  This year's "Summer Album", a distinction firmly levied two years ago upon Panda Bear's peerless Person Pitch, seems firmly in the grasp of newly released Phoenix LP Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. From the bouncy pop of "Lisztomania" and sheer exaltation of album highlight "1901" to the almost mathy vibe of "Armistice", Wolfgang Amadeus [...]

• Music

  Wave Goodbye

  06.02.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  It was the summer of 1994 and I had just discovered Soundgarden's SuperUnknown. Growing up on classics like The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and Pink Floyd, I had greatly ignored modern bands, but now found myself staring at a snowy-peaked mountain of music with only a month to climb before the start of high school [...]

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STEREOROBO is a personal smörgåsbord of gaming, music, and illustration blended into a pithy mush by Stephen Hack, a Chicago based arcade game developer and erstwhile polymath.

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