November 2011
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AUSTRA
Whenever a touring musician rolls into a new town, there are certain must-Google spots: the closest Guitar Center, the cleanest laundromat, the cheapest auto body shop. Or, in the case of Toronto electro-goth contingent Austra, the nearest Whole Foods.
For a band that maps out their travel itinerary based on organic grocery pit stops, it seems bizarre to meet ringleader Katie Stelmanis in a...
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Ground control to Amon Tobin
_PHOTOGRAPH BY EDWARD CARREON
For the better part of two decades, electronic music maven Amon Tobin has dazzled audiences with mind-expanding cuts that marry vinyl samples with his uncanny sonic sensibility. Despite his impressive résumé, the Brazilian-born visionary balked at touring his new album ISAM. Tobin insisted this latest disc—which he calls a “sound sculpture” of field...
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Death Cab for Cutie taxis to the bright side
When Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard got hitched to Zooey Deschanel in 2009, his bandmates saddled up for a lifetime of dodging questions about the She & Him bombshell. And now thanks to a certain studio where the Seattle band recorded parts of its latest album, Codes and Keys, the doe-eyed It Girl isn’t the only one popping up in interviews.
“As a kid growing up hearing ‘Summer...