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BEIRUT - Gulag Orkestar
| StylusMagazine | | It starts, as all things should, with fanfare. A piano rumbles, a trumpet screeches, and they rise until, as all things do, they fall. Rumble turns to moan, screech to mewl, small victory to even smaller defeat. Notes go rotten and fall off the vine, to decay and reemerge as their own eulogy. A kick stomps slowly as the piano, accordion, and horns line up behind it; a pallbearer's march....full text |
| | Lost At Sea magazine | | Internet hype can be a dangerous thing. After hearing about those damn Arctic Monkeys for so long, once I finally got a chance to listen to them I was extremely disappointed. I have learned that I have to search out the new stuff the second I hear about it, in order to forge my own opinion. If I’m late on the bandwagon for most hyped music out there, 9 times out of 10 I will hate it simply because of the letdown factor....full text |
| | Harmonium | | Recently, I was on a Cinco de Mayo cruise. It left from the east side of 23rd Street in New York City, sailed down to the Statue of Liberty and back. Lucky enough to live in New York, I’m always running across people from different backgrounds and nationalities. This cruise was no exception. Granted, the clientele tended more towards the Latin American variety, but there were others as well....full text |
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