Recommendation of the Day – June 12, 2008

Beach House
http://www.myspace.com/beachhousemusic
Beach House is the impressive indy rock duo of Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand. They hail from Baltimore, Maryland, although you would probably have guessed Sweden or Norway just by looking at them.
They released their second album, Devotion, this past February.  Their first album, 2006’s Beach House, had an incredible song called “Master of None” [...]

Recommendation of the Day – June 11, 2008

Battle Royale
A Japanese film directed by Kinji Fukasake that was released in Japan in 2000.  It never received a theatrical release in the U.S. as far as I know, but it had gained a bit of a cult following here even before it finally got a U.S. DVD release.  You can think of it as [...]

Recommendation of the Day

MGMT
http://www.myspace.com/mgmt
A Brooklyn-based band of Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden that formed during their first year at Wesleyan.   They’re a couple of young guys but their lyrics are surprisingly dark and their sound is remarkably mature.  You may be familiar with their single “A Time to Pretend” about the phoniness and cynicism of being a rock star; [...]

RECOMMENDATION OF THE DAY

I’m going to try to rotate these between film, music, literature and whathaveyou.
First up:
To Be and To Have
A French documentary  – please, keep reading — released in 2002 that follows one year in the life of a rural French schoolhouse.  It’s a subtle portrait of the dedication and compassion of the schoolhouse’s lone teacher who [...]