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-4 posts tagged "The National"
Dessi Gomez | Wednesday, December 30, 2020
‘Twas the damn season for Taylor Swift to outdo herself yet again. On Dec. 10, she announced the upcoming release of her ninth studio album “evermore” at midnight, a surprise drop to match the way she delivered sister record “folklore” in July. The metaphor of wandering deeper into the “folklorian woods” which she used when
Kelly McGarry | Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Over a blaring violin, Nick Cave confesses, “Most of us don’t really want to change, really … but what happens when an event occurs that is so catastrophic, that you just change. You change from a known person to an unknown person.” The catastrophic event to which he alludes to can only be the unexpected
Adam Ramos | Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Everything about the Grateful Dead is larger than life. The grass-root Americana icons didn’t have fans; they had Deadheads — unwavering groupies whose cult-like antics have become just as celebrated as the group’s music. The Dead didn’t play concerts; they played drug-fueled groove marathons featuring psychedelic-folk mastery. The Grateful Dead’s history has become inexorably intertwined
Matthew Munhall | Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Indie-rock stalwarts The National are characterized by a reliable consistency. The band’s cerebral and often existential songs about middle-class adult concerns often earns it the “dad rock” label, aided by the fact that ot sound has remained largely unchanged over the past decade. Remarkably, their critical reception is wildly consistent as well, with their past