MUSIC ARCHIVES

Stuff You Need To Know To Avoid Cultural Ostracism

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PRESS DARLINGS

Glowing Feist profile mania!

A veritable Feist feast! Feistmas! The Feistgeist!

AWKWARD IM CONVERSATIONS

“Man, I’m really bored here, nothing to entertain me but the hives.”

“Yeah, man, great band.”

“No, I mean I just went camping and I broke out in actual hives.”

“Oh.”

ABRUPT TICKET-BUYING HYSTERIA

The National evidently sell out every available venue in town every night for the next three months.

Great band, but what the hell is going on here?

BAND NAME EMBLEMATIC OF OUR SORRY-ASS GENERATION

The Twilight Sad

Describes your emotional state after listening to Shitdisco.

UNFORTUNATE REALIZATIONS

Finding out that you actually kind of dig The Twilight Sad.

They totally kick Snow Patrol’s ass.

TRANSCENDENT CONCERT EXPERIENCE

The Dirty Projectors absolutely mortifying a crowd of NYU students at Kimmel Center as an opening act for Battles Thursday night.

Two cooing ladies + one deranged, screeching dude frontman = total ecstatic bewilderment.

GREAT MOMENTS IN AIRPORT FENG SHUI

The fact that wherever you’re standing, you are never more than 100 yards from a
Pac-Man machine at JFK.

An especially useful distraction during endless baggage carousel debacles.

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