Although not the actual Grateful Dead, Dead & Company are one of the prime remnants of old-school American counter-culture. The Grateful Dead ended in 1995 after the death of Jerry Garcia, and Dead & Co emerged as the modern iteration of the post-Jerry band, with Bob Weir, Billy Kreutzman and Mickey Hart still playing from [...]
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In “Genealogy of Morals,” Friedrich Nietzsche describes the unbearable guilt that culture and language impart on humans. Our chief method of relief from this guilt, he contends, is to take part in established rituals created by our ancestors. One such way is to visit art museums. At the outset of the High Museum’s Calder-Picasso exhibition, [...]
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Filled with flashes of glee, regret, depression, regretful change and optimistic hope, “Promises'' is a serene meditation on these momentary and impressionistic waves of emotion, embodying a cathartic exercise in free jazz supplemented with classical and analog-synth orchestrations. This groundbreaking collaboration between the DJ Floating Points, jazz pioneer Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra [...]
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Someone once told me people are born knowing the Beatles’ songs, and that saying also applies to one other group: Daft Punk. Exploding out of the French house scene in the mid ‘90s, Daft Punk, composed of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, became one of the most influential and enigmatic electronic groups of all [...]
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It’s every self-loathing, /mu/-browsing beanie-wearer’s favorite time of the year: JPEGMAFIA is back and more sensual than ever. In 2019, the release of “All My Heroes Are Cornballs,” was a bold step beyond his hyperaggressive industrial style into an even more bizarre storm of atmospheric and boyband-inspired auto-crooning. JPEGMAFIA, also known as Peggy, stylistically progressed [...]
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