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Posts Categorized: Music
An Interview with Luckless
My interview with Ivy Rossiter, a.k.a. Luckless, consisted mainly of me being a dweeb and emerging from the process with a massive girl-crush on one of the most dedicated songwriters I’ve ever had the pleasure of embarrassing myself in front of. Read more »
The Phoenix Foundation – Fandango
One of the two frontmen, Samuel Flynn Scott, has described Fandango as “test-match music”. Sit down for it, for it takes commitment, but it’s worth it. Read more »
Modern Vampires of the City: First Impressions
Contributors Elise Munden and Philip McSweeney give you the track-by-track play-by-play of Vampire Weekend’s latest album. McSweeney’s on odds, Munden’s on evens. Read more »
The Downlow
Salient’s guide to upcoming releases, so you too can remain on the button and enter the upper echelons of music snobbery. Read more »
Life is a Veil of Tears
Philip chats with the Veils’ frontman Finn Andrews about, among other things, their new album. Read more »
The Next Day – David Bowie
It would be enough to have new Bowie, after all this time. But what we get is so much more; this is a proper album, not some half-arsed post-Best-Of revival. Read more »
Netsky at Hunter Lounge
Netsky, the crowning jewel of the YES! A Mini Festival—run simultaneously with O-Week by the ...Read more »
Lorde-ing It Up
I’m always childishly overjoyed when I hear of a female holding her own in the ...Read more »
The 20/20 Experience, Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake’s (or, as I affectionately refer to him: JT <3) new album, The 20/20 ...Read more »