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• Crystal Castles' Ethan Kath being investigated for sex crimes by Toronto Police

  21-12-2017 23:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  It is unclear as to whether this investigation has anything to do with the accusations of abuse against Ethan Kath by his former Crystal Castles bandmate, Alice Glass.
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• The year in music 2017: Much-anticipated albums and excellent reissues

  21-12-2017 22:11
  From l-r: Katie Von Schleicher (Chris Baker); Father John Misty (Guy Lowndes); St. Vincent (Nedda Afsari); Julien Baker (Sachyn Mital, via Wikimedia Commons).
  Like 2016, there wasn’t much to be happy or optimistic about this year, at a time when we’ve become more divided as a society than ever. But amid all the rage, tragedy and heartbreak, music, and the arts in general, provided a much-needed moment of both escapism and critique of the real world. And 2017 delivered on those things
  
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• Lindstrom tells us about his 10 favorite tracks of 2017

  21-12-2017 21:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Norwegian dance music great Hans-Peter Lindstrøm returned this year with It’s Alright Between Us As It Is, his first solo full-length in five years...
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• Tiny Engines artists list their top LPs of 2017

  21-12-2017 20:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Best of 2017 lists by label co-founder Will Miller, staffer Karl Kuehn (who also fronts Museum Mouth), and TE bands Club Night, Floral Print, Long Neck, See Through Dresses, Signals Midwest, Stranger Ranger, and Thelma.
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• Carols and a Comedy Show

  21-12-2017 18:59
  If, like me, your most intense period of work in the year is concentrated in last two weeks of December, my guess is that you are a sleep-deprived stressball right now and the weekend can’t come soon enough. Here’s a nice way to kick back at the end of a crazy week to remind yourself that we are, in fact, right in the middle of holiday season: Our favorite bar/flowershop mashup, Sycamore is hosting an evening of booze, blues, and caroling on Friday from 6 to 9pm. Drown your tensions
  
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• Last-minute holiday shopping and Gremlins

  21-12-2017 18:58
  Although I’m a decided procrastinator in most aspects of my life, I’ve had enough nightmare trips to the mall/SoHo/Bedford Ave./Smith Street in the day or two before Christmas that this old dog eventually had to learn the trick of shopping early and otherwise ordering online. If you find yourself still worried about checking people off your list by the time this Saturday rolls around, try the Brooklyn Brainery Last Minute Gift Fair, which runs from 11am-6pm in the Prospect Heights lo
  
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• "THE ONES YOU LEFT BEHIND ARE STILL WITH YOU": A Poem By Joanna C. Valente

  21-12-2017 18:17 via bkmag.com
  
  THE ONES YOU LEFT BEHIND ARE STILL WITH YOU
  When you woke up, you said youwanted to plant an orchid insideyour skull just to prove
  you can make something
  grow too—a skull that worksas a construction worker, a botanistplanting something that lurks
  around old hotels and bathroom stallsbut inside everyone else's
  skulls too. Because you know oneis never enough. And you don't trust
  yourself enough to believe
  in what you see even if it isan internet sensation. I'm sorry
  for trying to plant
  
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• An Alternative Midnight Mass

  21-12-2017 17:30
  A while back, we reported on alternative churches in Brooklyn–too far back to include the relatively new Lutheran ministry, Park Church Co-op, led by Pastor Amy Kienzle, who says of herself, “Having not grown up in the church, I have a love/hate relationship with traditional churchy stuff. I love good worship and organ music, but am disheartened at the way the church has not made others feel welcome and valued.”  Further proof that this congregation is more open-minded tha
  
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• An Alternative Christmas Eve Service

  21-12-2017 17:30
  A while back, we reported on alternative churches in Brooklyn–too far back to include the relatively new Lutheran ministry, Park Church Co-op, led by Pastor Amy Kienzle, who says of herself, “Having not grown up in the church, I have a love/hate relationship with traditional churchy stuff. I love good worship and organ music, but am disheartened at the way the church has not made others feel welcome and valued.”  Further proof that this congregation is more open-minded tha
  
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• Donate your dictionaries

  21-12-2017 17:27
  For over two decades, the volunteers at NYC Books Through Bars have been sending donated books to incarcerated people all over the country based on their requests, and on Wednesday night Silent Barn is helping out by throwing a Dictionary Drive. Admission is $5, which goes to the cause, and you are encouraged to bring paperback reference books like dictionaries, thesauruses, and atlases, as well as stamps and shipping supplies. The evening will also include live DJ sets and readings by Maxwell M
  
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• A piano bar for when you’re all in the mood for a melody

  21-12-2017 17:27
  Around this time of year, I sorely miss the Manhattan Inn and piano karaoke with Joe McGinty. Sitting the intimate back room around a white baby grand, Old Fashioned in hand, and listening as your fellow revelers crooned to songs accompanied by the bandleader of the Loser’s Lounge was a classic holiday experience. You can come close to recreating it at Sid Gold’s in Chelsea on Tuesday night, with one of McGinty’s bandmates, Wendy Ip, on the ivories. You’ll need to make re
  
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• Five Overlooked Albums of 2017

  21-12-2017 17:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  It's days before Christmas, and that means we won't be getting much in the way of new albums until the new year. In lieu of that, Notable Releases of the Week is going into hibernation until January and I'm replacing it this week with Five Overlooked Albums of the Year.
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• 'Rolling Stone' bought by Penske Media (who own 'Variety,' 'Deadline' & more)

  21-12-2017 17:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rolling Stone, which turned 50 this year, has been acquired by Penske Media, the corporation that owns other titles/brands such as Variety, Deadline, Women's Wear Daily and more. According to Variety, PMC will invest around $100 million into Wenner Media, the parent company of Rolling Stone.
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• A Jewish Christmas Feast

  21-12-2017 17:08
  This is the season of rituals. Whether those rituals are more religious or commercial or food or family oriented depends on your personal history, but Mile vend Deli is certainly keeping up its end of the bargain by continuing its popular Chinese Feast on Christmas. Not all New York Jews grew up celebrating this holiday by eating out at a Chinese restaurant, but it’s certainly a thing, and it’s definitely a fun twist to have serious chefs who normally cook within the Jewish cultural
  
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• Day For Night Saturday pics (Cardi B, Pussy Riot, Lil B & more)

  21-12-2017 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  We reviewed day two of Houston festival Day For Night and now here's pics.
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• A reset for 2018 and a sweaty dance party to get you ready for NYE

  21-12-2017 15:00
  In general, I love the idea of Good Riddance Day, an annual pre-NYE tradition that lets people say sayonara to any weighty baggage from the twelve months prior by literally pulverizing their unwanted memories in a giant shredder parked in Times Square, but for various reasons 2017 feels especially ripe for the taking here. If you’re free between noon and 1pm on Thursday, swing by with anything you’d like to leave behind as you embark on a fresh (and hopefully much better start) to 20
  
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