[ M I S C ] Beck, America’s favorite monosyllabic vegan artist, has announced his next album will be released exclusively on sheet music. Yes, fans will have to learn how to play an instrument if they want to hear it ... The onetime Dresdon Doll Amanda Palmer, who paid for her new album with a Kickstarter campaign, came under fire for paying her musicians in hugs and high-fives.
DIVINE FITS Spoon’s Britt Daniel is about the closest thing indie rock has to a legend, so any side project from him is worthy of attention. And if that project also features members from Wolf Parade and New Bomb Turks, so much the better. I didn’t have this idea that I wanted to start a band comprised of people that the general public had heard of or anything like that. I just knew them. It came together naturally. We’d never sought out [the term ‘supergroup’] whatsoever. As soon as it got announced, that was the word we saw everywhere. I guess it’s fine. We are super.
PAMELA LITTKY
Why We Love Them With Britt Daniel from Spoon, Dan Boeckner from Wolf Parade and Sam Brown from New Bomb Turks, they
Divine Fits
A Thing Called Divine Fits
sound like Spoon, if Spoon had been formed in the ‘80s. Why wouldn’t we love them?
FOR FANS OF Flock of Seagulls, Kraftwerk, The Human League ONLINE www.divinefits.com
After a huge Internet
ANAÏS MITCHELL
backlash, Palmer agreed to cut them all
Why We Love Her
a check ...
The heavenly folk sound of Anaïs Justin
Mitchell makes the girl-with-a-guitar
Vernon—either
thing sound like a revelation. She takes
the lead
folk to its storytelling roots and knows
singer or sole
how to tell a good one.
member of Bon Iver, depending on who you ask—has asked fans to design a tattoo based on his favorite TV show, Northern
Anaïs Mitchell
Exposure. He’ll
Young Man in America
review entries FOR FANS OF Sharon Van Etten, Bowerbirds, Bon Iver, Joanna Newsom
and get his favorite one inked on his arm ...
JAY SANSONE
ONLINE www.anaismitchell.com
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