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Review – Polar Bear Club: Death Chorus
posted: November 22, 2013
One of the most appealing things about Polar Bear Club has always been frontman Jimmy Stadt‘s guttural growl, which sounds like something that might come out of an angry boar’s mouth if it was about…
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What Do Sky Ferreira and Chumbawamba Have in Common? Nudity, Of Course.
posted: November 21, 2013
Sky Ferreira‘s debut full-length Night Time, My Time garnered a lot of attention when it debuted this October, but not all of it was due to her catchy electropop tunes. Instead, some found fault with…
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Air Traffic Controller: OurStage Artist Of The Week
posted: November 20, 2013
Our latest Artist of the Week is Air Traffic Controller, a Boston-based pop-rock group that takes their name from frontman Dave Munro‘s stint in the US Navy as, well, an air traffic controller. Citing as a…
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'Why Watch This?' Wednesday
posted: November 20, 2013
We used to have a feature here on the OurStage magazine called Watch This Wednesday, where we would round up the videos that had been kicking around that week for your viewing pleasure. Today, we…
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Why No One Needs Lady Gaga To Reinvent Pop Music (And Why She Isn't Doing It Anyway)
posted: November 20, 2013
In the 1950s and ’60s, ‘Pop’ art upended the staid world of fine art by incorporating elements from advertising, television, and consumer product packaging. It fundamentally shifted the public perception of visual art, redefined the acceptable…
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Review – Cate Le Bon: Mug Museum
posted: November 15, 2013
Throughout the blogosphere, critics and news writers most frequently slap one of two labels on Dutch musician Cate Le Bon: singer-songwriter or folk. And while it’s true that technically her often morbid but still delightfully…
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