After being hipped to this song by Matthew way back in the day, and hipping significant numbers of my friends to same (you can easily fit it in yr basic dancefloor mix with no loss), I’m interested at the remake. What started as a Mark Ronson-esque, very 00s idea of retro-soul pop is now [...]

Crystal Castles vs. HEALTH – “Crimewave”
Eyes lit
On sharp threats
From dark lips
But lights press
The soft skin
To rough hands.
Alice Glass’s voice, like that of the Knife’s Karin Dreijer Andersson, is merely a suggestion for Crystal Castles, a flesh-and-blood formation to digitally gild, deconstruct and rebuild. We don’t hear her sing the word “hands”, we hear nine diced-up [...]

As a junior in college, I took an advanced video production class (T283, I believe), during which I took the opportunity to visually document the awkwardness of my twentieth year, mostly through attempts at Making Grand Political Statements and Distancing Myself From Mainstream Culture. Most of what I made sucked, but it was all done [...]