Top Ten Things of 2014 (the year of Spotify) — by Alex Almario on

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Becoming an adult means losing parts of yourself. This is an irrefutable fact, but because life happens fast and relentlessly, it only beco...

Dance About Architecture Like Nobody's Watching — by Alex Almario on

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I don’t read music reviews anymore. It’s not because I think the state of music criticism has declined or any straw man polemic thing like ...

I Know It's Over — by Alex Almario on

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This essay is from the January-February 2014 issue of Rogue Magazine The statement “indie is dead” is dead. It’s been said so many times...

Everything We Never Were — by Alex Almario on

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Something happened to me in the middle of being absolutely enchanted by Joe Swanberg’s Drinking Buddies – I realized that films about “you...

Top Ten Things of 2013 — by Alex Almario on

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You guys, I finally have a year-end list! I know you all had yours by the first week of December and had first dibs on 2013's pop cul...

Mazzier Than Ever — by Alex Almario on

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The first time I saw Hope Sandoval, she was a smudge on the TV. It was Mazzy Star performing “Fade Into You” for MTV’s 120 Minutes. It was...