Blog: Confessions of a Would-Be Hipster

I'm floating in a bit of a bubble this week with limited Internet access. Somehow, this feeling of disconnect—like I've somehow managed to fall off the grid, makes Thao 's (and her band, the Get Down Stay Down) new album Know Better Learn Faster just a bit more extraordinary. I can't access the cheat sheet press release, and Thao defies easy summaries. It's a fair trade. Thao's music simultaneously boasts an old-fashioned throw down musicality—not unlike a few great American songwriters you could easily Google (Muddy Waters and Bob Dylan immediately come to mind) and [...]