Video: St. Vincent - The Strangers [Live] @ Great American Music Hall

Last week's cover story for Creative Loafing was entitled Damn hipsters: Is Atlanta falling prey to its indie cachet? I'm about to quote half that article so get ready. The thesis may seem hard to get at between the product placement tie-ins and glaring contradictions, but the argument goes like this: Other cities have had cohesive music scenes shape a large part of their identity...But Atlanta seems to lack the sense of cohesion around which a defining scene can be built...Atlanta hasn't typically lent itself to being easily packaged and sold. The various [...]

St. Vincent - The Strangers (live) I've been unfairly busy the past few days, so I missed the videos of St. Vincent debuting new material at San Francisco's Noise Pop! festival. I like other music fans (and straight males) really enjoy St. Vincent's album Marry Me and am now eagerly waiting her follow-up, Actor. Is it [...]

St. Vincent was in San Francisco this past weekend to perform as part of the NoisePop festival and, as this Stereogum post entails, Annie Clark debuted two of the new songs off her upcoming Actor alb... Continue reading "St. Vincent Premieres Two New Songs At San Francisco's NoisePop Festival" >

When we posted St. Vincent's Actor album art , a number of comments focused on whether or not it was misogynist to focus so much on Annie Clark's appearance. True enough, a few folks were a bit overly excited in their descriptions -- go outside and see the world, you. Then again, as kidacomputerok put it (albeit with more colorful sentences and phrases before and after this central thesis): "[S]ince there's ONLY a tracklisting and cover photo of her effervescent visage here and NOT MP3s of the actual songs, how the fuck [...]