After nearly a decade of unhurried, frequently majestic music, Sigur Rós’ 2008 LP Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust found the Icelandic band working in its most traditional and commercial vein to date. Song lengths were primarily under the five-minute mark, and the lead single, “Gobbledigook,” was like a campfire…
Pop culture can be as forbidding as it is inviting, particularly in areas that invite geeky obsession: The more devotion a genre or series or subculture inspires, the easier it is for the uninitiated to feel like they’re on the outside looking in. But geeks aren’t born; they’re made. And sometimes it only takes the…
Pop culture can be as forbidding as it is inviting, particularly in areas that invite geeky obsession: The more devotion a genre or series or subculture inspires, the easier it is for the uninitiated to feel like they’re on the outside looking in. But geeks aren’t born; they’re made. And sometimes it only takes the…
The New York Times recently ran a trend piece on seapunk, a nascent, Tumblr-fueled subgenre of dance music visually paired with oceanic colors and imagery. One of the defining characteristics of the mostly young adults and kids playing with these microscenes is the near collapse of their online and real-life worlds;…
