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Mike Anderson , a Fayetteville director who relocated to Brooklyn last year, has started a Kickstarter campaign with Javelin to raise money for a Western-themed companion short film to the band's new 10-inch, Canyon Candy , out on Luaka Bop. From the looks of the promo (which starts at 1:40), we can expect more of Mike's trademark colorful greenscreen antics, only this time in fully fleshed-out short film form. This is exciting because Mike only has super short promo bits available for viewing over on his Vimeo page , so it will be nice [...]

The success of the best 90's best alt-rock, and by extension the success of today's best alt-rock revivalists, can be traced to two factors: Escapism and immediacy. These aren't the only two factors, mind you, but merely two forces which drive songs like The Library is On Fire's "Monkey in my Chair." Are they really singing about a monkey stealing some dude's chair when that dude got up to go to the fridge for a fresh beer? The bigger question is, does it matter? Why would you want to spend your time dissecting [...]

Brandon Bethancourt has a story compelling enough-he left sunny New Mexico to spend months in a frigid cabin in the middle of Alaska, making music to stave off frostbite and insanity-to warrant his musical rubric. Then there's the connection with Zach Condon of Beirut, who helped make 2007's Dance Party in the Balkans a critical fave. Now he's moved Berlin and spends his time listening to house music, making melancholy synth-pop tunes (below) as well as funny faux interview videos , pretending to be a serious Russian artiste (that's not a fake German accent, as [...]

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It's a tragic lack, but I know next to nothing about Englishman Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood's semi-autobiographical Berlin Stories (or Goodbye to Berlin ), which like no other book formed the image of the German capital for the English-speaking world , writes TIME magazine's Stephanie Kirchner. (Not sure why the article's URL contains '20072; it was published two days ago.) Isherwood's book, which helped trademark Berlin in the Anglo mind as the neon-lit city of gay decadence (both meanings), also is described as the inspiration behind the 1972 Liza Minnelli vehicle, "Cabaret," a movie I'm still [...]

Expat Americans! If you're living abroad, would like to vote in the upcoming presidential election and haven't registered yet* you've got about 48 hours to go to this site , fill out the online form, print out the pdf (only page 4 necessary) and send it by mail. Actual mail, to the address given for your district. Since no state has a registration deadline before October 6, according to the deadlines page, you've now got 15 days (but 11 postal days) for your letter to arrive stateside. Since a typical letter to the US, in my experience, [...]

Illustration by Monika Aichele accompanying a review of Anna Winger's expat-in-Berlin cultural quirkathon This Must Be The Place . German? American? Nationality doesn't enter into it. [Protagonists] Hope and Walter are spooked by the stranger in the mirror, not the strangers on the street, and they've made geography the scapegoat for their detachment. Orson gives them a wake-up call: "Wherever you go, there you are," he tells Hope, quoting from the film "Buckaroo Banzai," adding, "I consider myself a citizen of the world." Don't we all. If I had a euro [...]