Halfway through the film ‘A City is an Island,’ we see Mac Demarco sitting in the bathroom of his Montreal apartment, giving the camera his best come-hither look as he pees while sitting down. The fluorescent light above the sink casts everything in a murky glow, while Mac, as calm as ever, serenades the camera…
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Interview: Mutual Benefit’s Jordan Lee On Their New Album, And Why They’re Not Sufjan Stevens
Web journalists – particularly those that specialize in music – are a very strange breed of people. Huddled into the large, yet shockingly small space known as the Internet, writers from all walks of life dish out their self-righteous opinions, hoping to echo louder than the next person. At its core, the goal of the…
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The last time I went to see Shad, he performed for a packed house. This time around, the attending bodies hardly made a dent in the venue’s capacity. While this could be attributed to the fact that both openers– Hannah Georgas and We Are The City– are definitely not hip-hop acts, it nonetheless made for…
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