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Top 20 + Brief Reflections on 2017
Memory Crusades: Is This It? The Strokes
Hypercritical or Hypocrite- Kendrick Blurs the Line
The Fantasy of a Man’s Reality: Sugar Man Sixto Rodriguez
Threaded: When Music and Movies Intertwine
The Last Rays and Skeleton Shadows: Best Late Fall Records
Sonikseek: Toronto Gives Us the Future of Pop with MorMor

Top 20 + Brief Reflections on 2017
Memory Crusades: Is This It? The Strokes
Hypercritical or Hypocrite- Kendrick Blurs the Line
The Fantasy of a Man’s Reality: Sugar Man Sixto Rodriguez
Threaded: When Music and Movies Intertwine
The Last Rays and Skeleton Shadows: Best Late Fall Records
Sonikseek: Toronto Gives Us the Future of Pop with MorMor

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Threaded: When Music and Movies Intertwine

2017-05-18
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Feature, MOVIES, Threaded

The clip at the top is from the classic movie The Royal Tenenbaums (2001). It is one of my favorite films, and I believe, a fine example of when music and the motion of a movie have been “threaded” together. In fact, this scene is one of my favorite scenes in any movie because the music and motion are so clearly intertwined. Every detail between the music and the motion of the camera has been thought through. The way the bus stops...

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By Derek Henry
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Another Forgotten Band From Detroit: The Misconceptions of “Death”

2017-04-08
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Documentary, Historic, MOVIES, MUSIC

As I said in my previous post, this is another uncanny real life story that simply could not have been written as fiction. The Drafthouse Films documentary about the band Death also came out in 2012, the same year the Oscar-winning documentary “Searching for Sugar Man” was released, and is called A Band Called Death. They were one of the first all-black punk bands in America, and they also hailed from Detroit, just like Rodriguez! Two musical acts making a modern resurgence...

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The Fantasy of a Man’s Reality: Sugar Man Sixto Rodriguez

2017-04-08
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Documentary, Historic, MOVIES, MUSIC

You just can’t write a story like this. It seems the charming unpredictability of real life is forced to make some of our greatest stories, and provide us with our greatest sources of inspiration. Take the true story of Sixto Rodriguez, a.k.a. Sugar Man, which was captured in the fantastic 2012 documentary Searching for Sugar Man. The documentary won an Oscar for Best Documentary at the 2013 Academy Awards. After watching and becoming mesmerized by the uncanniness of the story, it became obvious...

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