Hurricane Irene swept across the East Coast of the United States last weekend, hitting New York City on Saturday night/Sunday morning. While there was certainly damage done, including coastal flooding, the hurricane was a lot more mild than predicted. The news only tells you so much. Now, Muster correspondents in NYC report. Here, writer Eric [...]
First Aid Kit will perform on Day 2 of Flow Festival in Helsinki, Finland this August. Writer Julie Roth talks about falling in and out of love, played to the tune of First Aid Kit. I first heard about this sister duo the Summer of 2009. My on-and-off again summer romance was on, and he [...]
Actually, Q-Tip (of A Tribe Called Quest) is no longer performing at Flow Festival. He recently canceled his entire European tour due to personal reasons. For every loss, though, there is a gain: Flow now has MF DOOM performing. But Man Yau had already spilled her guts about her memories of Q-Tip, and artist Yaya [...]
Battles will perform on Day 3 of Flow Festival in Helsinki, Finland this August. Writer Emilia Brock reminisces about her first time seeing Battles live and how it shook the foundation of her concert experience (and the foundation of Webster Hall). I was never a college-y person. My freshman dorm building was an old hotel [...]
French Films will perform on Day 1 of Flow Festival in Helsinki, Finland this August. Tuomas Brock writes about seeing the group live in a park and trying hide a little…accident. For three weeks I had guests staying with me. For three weeks I was out every night. And now I was alone with only [...]
Midlake will perform on Day 1 of Flow Festival in Helsinki, Finland this August. Abigail Dunn writes about Midlake being an unlikely companion (and, at times, a therapeutic one) for a bleak and melancholic summer back home from her first year in college. To say that the summer of 2008 was one of the worst summers [...]
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti will perform on Day 1 of Flow Festival in Helsinki, Finland this August. Writer Eleni Crush finds a correlation between Ariel Pink, sexy times, and North Brooklyn (evidenced by her own experiences). I’m about ninety percent sure that having sexytimes soundtracked by Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti is a rite of passage [...]
Mayer Hawthorne & The County will perform on Day 2 of Flow Festival in Helsinki, Finland this August. Writer Jay Cohen explains the contrast between MH’s irresistible beats and a car company’s shameless product placement. Sponsored by Mazda 3. That’s what it said everywhere at Music Hall of Williamsburg. Yeah, it was a concert, and yeah, [...]