Ian Curtis is rolling over in his grave. Not because the latest album by White Lies is a rip-off of Joy Division but because if Curtis were alive today, this is the kind of music he would be making. Ritual is a throwback to a great era. It’s an homage. It’s the first must-have album of 2011. Forget all the comparisons to contemporaries like Interpol and Editors, Ritual raises the bar and sets them apart from all. If Man Ray […]
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A Moment With: Scott Poulson-Bryant
The music-writing bug hit me pretty early in life, but it didn’t strike me as a viable option (for various reasons) until I was in my mid-teens. Starting with the creation of The Source, young urban culture finally got a voice in the print media mainstream, It was closely followed by Quincy Jones’ magazine venture, Vibe. From the first issue of the magazine I saw (with a striking photo of Treach from Naughty by Nature on the cover), I was […]
