The Wake

Background information: I have a small scar along the right side of my face. It begins somewhere along the lower part of my cheek and extends down to the front right side of my mandible.

After my senior year of high school I headed to South America to visit a former tennis teammate and good friend. I will refer to this friend as Diego. Diego and I had grown very close during his stay in …

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Where is Justin Vernon going now? Out of the cold woods and into the sun, it would seem. The sky is lined with sparse clouds that casually cross the sun in Bon Iver’s sophomore release Blood Bank EP. 

The four-track EP (officially released via digital, CD and vinyl mediums on January 20, 2009) is presented as a full-band effort with the assistance of Sean …

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Vitesse. French for “speed”. Who remembers Vitesse? The Chicago duo comprised of Joshua Klein and Hewson Chen? After taking a music composition course together at the University of Chicago, Klein and Chen released four wondrous indie synth-pop albums and then seemingly disappeared. The collaboration between the two became difficult; Klein (an editor for satirical magazine, The Onion) would visit Chen (a law student at Vanderbilt University) over weekends to collaborate and record music together. The …

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Quacking microphones, awkward pauses and an overall enticing performance marked the release of Now, Now Every Children’s first EP, Not One But Two, last Saturday, February 16. The show was hosted by The Beat Coffeehouse in Uptown Minneapolis.

Band members Cacie Dalager (vocals, guitar), Brad Hale (drums, vocals), Britty Hale (keyboards) and Justin Schweim (bass) combined to form Now, Now Every Children in the summer of 2007. …

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