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20 hours ago ago from Epic Rantings
For those of you that don't know, Regina Spektor is a Soviet-born American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her music is associated with the anti-folk scene centered on New York City's East Village. Spektor's first nationwide tour was accompanying The Strokes as the opening act on their 2003–2004 Room on Fire tour, during which she and the band performed and recorded Modern Girls & Old Fashion Men . Kings of Leon were the second opening act on ...
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13 hours ago ago from No Rock And Roll Fun
Bill Walsh calls for a shift at Filter : Filter magazine's review of the Regina Spektor album "Far" begins: The lowercase 'f' in far is telling. No, it isn't. The review continues to lowercase the album title (and, in an extra added bonus blow to reading comprehension, uses neither italics nor quotation marks), presumably because that's the way it is on the album cover, while uppercasing "Regina Spektor" (also lowercase on the album ...
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19 hours ago ago from KK & R Music Blog
From BBC review Spektor's determinedly semi-detached fascination with the minutiae of things may irritate some listeners – there's something about the curious biography outlined in the overly jaunty Folding Chair, with its imitation of dolphins singing, that provokes a concerned step backwards – but for the most part it throws up miniature marvels. The easy but effective metaphor of Two Birds, the extrapolation of an unknown life spun ...
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13 hours ago ago from Misplaced Swag!
2009 has been a year when I've taken stock of a fair bit of older music thank Spotify for that! which might explain my profligacy in terms of listening to some really highly-regarded new albums. Nonetheless, in the last few weeks I've clawed back lost ground and taken the opportunity to investigate the hype surrounding some of this year's gems. In the interests of economy, I'm only listing my fifteen favourite albums; there were plenty ...
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