Thursday, January 9, 2025
Music for nothing and your chill playlists for free: a new book by Liz Pelly on the horror story of Spotify.
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, by Liz …
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, December 12, 2024
The late Lebanese author Elias Khoury’s trilogy about a Palestinian refugee during and after the Nakba in 1948 explores the entangled relationship between trauma and storytelling.
Childre…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, October 31, 2024
Scraps of sound, stoned marching around: the experimental duo’s debut is an inviting blend of chaos and intimacy.
High Tide, by Able Noise, World of Echo
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Able No…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, October 3, 2024
Art by and for the people vs. architecture in the service of empire.
Monumental Graffiti: Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City, by Rafael Schacter, MIT Press, 386 pages, $39.95
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SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, September 19, 2024
An eclectic and rewarding mix of delightful, unpredictable writing from n+1’s second decade.
The Intellectual Situation: The Best of n+1’s Second Decade,
edited by Mark Krotov, Nikil S…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, June 20, 2024
Riotous shows, near-fatal fights, and anti-racism and protest politics: a new book chronicles the influential era of the Specials and 2 Tones Records.
Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tones Record…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, May 16, 2024
In remembrance of the sound and voice of the indelible musician
and recording engineer.
Steve Albini, backstage, New York City, 1985. Photo: Gail Butensky.
1962–2024
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SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, May 2, 2024
A new book captures the vibes of visionary composer
and cellist Arthur Russell.
Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, A Life, by Richard King,
Anthology Editions, 296 pages, $50
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SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, March 21, 2024
Nothing will prepare you for this dark, dizzying novel
by the late Heather Lewis.
Notice, by Heather Lewis, Semiotext(e), 243 pages, $17.95
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Before Heather Lewis h…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, February 8, 2024
Walls Have Ears, the band’s trailblazing 1985 album, gets
its first official release.
Walls Have Ears, by Sonic Youth, Goofin’ Records
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Some memories are just …
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, January 18, 2024
On violence, liberation, and the collective: a new biography of
Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz.
The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, by Adam Shatz, Farrar, Straus and…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, November 30, 2023
The musician’s powerful new album defies categorization with its
subdued quietude.
New Blue Sun, by André 3000, Epic Records
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André 3000’s new album, New Blu…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, November 2, 2023
A complete compendium of short fiction showcases the Welsh writer’s giddy, mystical way with words.
Collected Stories, by Dylan Thomas, New Directions, 362 pages, $24.95
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SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, October 19, 2023
The book of the unnamed dead: Teju Cole’s new novel gives presence to those wronged and forgotten by the brutalities of history.
Tremor, by Teju Cole, Random House, 239 pages, $28
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SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, September 21, 2023
Language rushes to keep up with the chaos of science in Benjamín Labatut’s new hybrid novel.
The MANIAC, by Benjamín Labatut, Penguin Press, 354 pages, $28
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SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, June 8, 2023
From dodging bullets in Chicago to secretly jamming in Vietnam to redefining jazz around the world, Henry Threadgill’s story of negotiating a uniquely American chaos.
Easily Slip into Ano…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMMonday, June 30, 2014
In January, 1975, the musician Brian Eno and the painter Peter Schmidt released a set of flash cards they called “Oblique Strategies.” Friends since meeting at art school, in the…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMIn January, 1975, the musician Brian Eno and the painter Peter Schmidt released a set of flash cards they called “Oblique Strategies.” Friends since meeting at art school, in the…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMMonday, April 8, 2013
In 1999, the siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer formed the production and performing duo the Knife, in Stockholm. In 2002, they released a track called “Heartbeats,̶…
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