Author: Alex Holmes
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Film Fest: Quincy Does Justice to Music Icon
Typically, when you sit down to watch a biographical documentary, you expect to leave the theatre having learned a great deal about the subject’s life. Quincy achieves all that and so much more. In its two-hour runtime, the film covers the extraordinary life of Quincy Jones–one of the most highly accomplished and celebrated musicians, producers,…
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Mount Eerie brings hits to the stage in live album
Over the last couple of years, Mount Eerie has released two of the most heart-rending albums of the decade–a grief-stricken collection of ballads entitled A Crow Looked at Me, and it’s slightly more hopeful, yet still powerfully impactful Now Only. Detail by painful detail, Crow outlines the immediate backlash that Phil Elverum, the singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist behind…
