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PITTSBURGH—Audience members at the Benedum Center for the Performing Arts are reporting that, oh God, no, approximately 20 extremely enthusiastic actors are approaching the edge of the stage and appear determined to continue their current musical number in the main seating area.
“Oh, man, are they? Shit,” one audience member was overheard saying as the energetic [...]

My first trip to the festival, and to Austin, got off to a good start yesterday. I’m keeping a daily blog over at Indyweek, the music blog connected to a North Carolina alt-weekly edited by my friend and fellow Pitchforker Grayson Currin. Also blogging: famous Pitchfork celebrities Marc Masters, Jason Crock and Paul [...]

Luke Temple’s voice sure sounds like Paul Simon’s on a few of his tracks as Here We Go Magic, but this ain’t no Kodachrome. I wrote a bit more about the new album here, and if I were to craft a more direct metaphor to a form of media it resembles, or to the [...]

HAMILTON: The flavor industry can lend diversity to products that aren’t really that diverse. Soft drinks are a perfect example: They’re corn syrup and flavor. With orange juice, it’s masking the processing procedure rather than the diversity of ingredients.
IDEAS: So parse the carton for us. For example, what is the phrase “not from concentrate” really [...]