David Lynch

"The Arcade Fire are a band constructed from this kind of nostalgia. They are nostalgic for their own..."

The Arcade Fire are a band constructed from this kind of nostalgia. They are nostalgic for their own past albums, as the lyrical and musical callbacks on this one demonstrate. They are nostalgic for their childhoods and other people’s childhoods. They’re probably nostalgic for things that happened two hours ago. They’re even nostalgic for things they never experienced – the song “We Used to Wait,” is about writing letters and waiting for a reply to arrive in the mail.

Sparkleobit: Mark Linkous

The suicide of Mark Linkous from Sparklehorse was confirmed earlier today in an official statement from his family.

That Sparklehorse only released four official albums reflects unfairly on Linkous’ work; outside of his private umbrella, he collaborated and produced and collaborated again.

UNISON INTERVIEW

WonderWonder

As I revealed the other day in my piece about being sartorially unimpressed by anyone in New York except the Indian community, I can be pretty ho-hum about people’s visual style. But when I like someone’s style, I really like it. I glom on. I copy. I evangelize. I’ve always done this; at school I’d copy someone’s handwriting if I thought it was cool, or wear my tie the way they did. These days, my role models in this respect tend to be Japanese women, which makes it a bit harder to copy. But I can still evangelize.
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