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Fuse Music Critic Noah Schaffer’s favorite live music moments from the past year.
Hopefully, Death Grips can keep finding new ways to convey contemporary dissonance, because as it stands now they have produced four of the most important musical works of the 21st Century.
Despite the band’s obvious affinity for alcohol, there’s nothing sloppy about OTP. They’re a tight unit.
The slow tempos on the whole didn’t hurt the show. People were there to hear Madeleine Peryoux — her voice and delivery, her offbeat arrangements and particular idiosyncratic take on familiar songs.
Like Lo Fi High Fives, Personal Appeal might not be a “best of” per se, but it is certainly a good entry point for those who have been daunted by R. Stevie Moore’s massive and impressive back catalogue.
Singer/songwriter Paula Cole’s musical and personal journey has been a long, sometimes painful hejira.
There was a great deal of obfuscatory hype about this LP, but the time to listen to the music has finally come. And Earl Sweatshirt has delivered what sounds like a hip hop classic.
The third and latest LP from indie singer-songwriter and composer Julia Holter proffers a vision of urban ecstasy.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, and film that’s coming up this week.
There’s a festival just about every weekend, it seems. The newest is The Nines Festival.
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