That’s precisely the question Guardian music blogger Priya Elan asks in his today’s post. Elan points to Juliana Hatfield’s admission last month to a treatment facility for anorexia (about which she blogged in heart-rending detail), and all the flack that both Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson and Beth Ditto have gotten for their Read More
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Since they blew through South by Southwest this spring, Seattle’s Fleet Foxes have steadily climbed indie rock’s crowded ladder. They played the Bowery Ballroom in March and again in July, stormed the Pitchfork Music Festival later that month, jumped across the pond for England’s Isle of Wight festival in August, and sold out Read More
As a steady rain soaked the village this past weekend, Dean Wareham ambled down Avenue A, umbrella aloft, a slight bounce in his step, and watched the cabs race down the street. He wondered aloud whether his roof would spring a leak under the rain, and lamented his landlord’s decision to raise the rent by Read More
