Cultfever is J. Peter Durniak and Tamara Jafar, two artists whose chance encounter in a Manhattan recording studio spawned a musical partnership of two distinct voices connecting over a shared vision in sound. Within a few months of their first meeting, Durniak, an audio engineer at the studio,...

*Cultfever* is *J. Peter Durniak* and *Tamara Jafar*, two artists whose chance encounter in a *Manhattan* recording studio spawned a musical partnership of two distinct voices connecting over a shared vision in sound. Within a few months of their first meeting, Durniak, an audio engineer at the...

The Feelies at Prospect Park in 2011 (more by Tamara Porras) The Feelies recently scheduled two shows happening this spring, including one in NYC at The Bell House on April 27 and another in Hudson, NY at Club Helsinki on...

Not sure how I missed this a couple months ago, but Cultfever, a New York duo, released a stunning s/t debut album in November. J. Peter Durniak and Tamara Jafar, the driving Cultfever forces, created an extraordinarily lush album opener with “Knewyouwell,” showcasing Jafar’s charmingly innocent vocals and an array of experimental [...]

Cultfever is J. Peter Durniak and Tamara Jafar, two artists whose chance encounter in a Manhattan recording studio spawned a musical partnership of two distinct voices connecting over a shared vision in sound. Within a few months of their first meeting, Durniak, an audio engineer at the studio, and Jafar, an audio intern at the studio and political activist, decided to move in together, converting their apartment living room into a shared studio space. Soon after, late-night recording sessions and musical sketches began to evolve into the songs that make up their eponymous debut. During the recording process, the duo ...

Manhattan’s Cultfever released their self-titled debut album in November last year and it somehow only made it onto the Poule d’Or radar today. J. Peter Durniak and Tamara Jafar “conceived of the album as a series of cinematic vignettes rather … Continue reading →

I take a bit of pride in generally ignoring the press kits that accompany albums, but every so often I see why they could be considered useful. For example, I didn't pay much attention to All Of It Was Mine , the most recent album from The Weather Station , for the simple reason that, as far as I knew, they were still a " sister band " to Entire Cities . While that might've been a huge point in The Weather Station's favour at one point , after the massive disappointment that was the last EC album, I wasn't particularly motivated ...

By Tamara Tabet It’s always such a pleasure to see a We Have Band show! The band was playing at “the 114″, a new and hype parisian venue for the launching party of an equally new and hype magazine named Plugged. We thus got to have a preview listening of several tracks from their upcoming album Ternion, [...]

“You can't blame Stephen Frears for trying” seems to be the mantra for "Lay the Favorite," a mild romp through the T&A; world of Las Vegas, gambling and literary adaptation. After all, "High Fidelity" is an iconic film to obsessive nerds (Need proof? See: every listicle on the Internet) and Frears is no slouch to crafting strong and/or sexy female characters (Tamara Drew, Cherí, The Queen). But what happens when he tries to mash them up and form the unholy love child of a stat geek and a bubbly idiot savant who used to be a stripper? You ...

Experimental jazz group The Quadratic Contingency (pictured) launch the follow-up to 2010 debut self-titled EP with >>>> (yes, that’s the new EP’s title). Happening at the Brisbane Jazz Club on Saturday Jan 21, guest musicians on the night include Greshka’s Andre Bonnetti (vibes) and Red Herring Duo’s Tamara O’Callaghan (vocals).

Se i Cannibal Telefilm Awards sono stati un po’ l’equivalente per questo blog degli Emmy, adesso arrivano gli Oscar cannibali, la versione de' noantri degli Academy Awards dedicati alle migliori visioni cinematografiche dell’annata 2011. Una cascata di premi e awards vari, molto vari. Alcuni stupidi, naturalmente. Si parte con la consegna del titolo più ambito del mondo (o quasi), il Cannibale d’Oro 2011 di miglior film dell’anno, che va a… Il cigno nero, come già noto. Qui di seguito trovate il riassunto della Top 40 (in realtà allargata a 43 titoli) dei film preferiti dell’anno ...

This is your Daily 2% – Chilled and Ready to Serve. We will try to bring you one "chill" track every day. This is for when you get home and you are trying to unwind. You reach for that glass of wine or that unlit Black & Mild or maybe you reach for something more herbal. [...]

This is your Daily 2% – Chilled and Ready to Serve. We will try to bring you one "chill" track every day. This is for when you get home and you are trying to unwind. You reach for that glass of wine or that unlit Black & Mild or maybe you reach for something more herbal. [...]

DOWNLOAD: Guided By Voices - "The Unsinkable Fats Domino" (MP3) Guided By Voices at McCarren Park (more by Tamara Porras) The still-going-strong Guided By Voices have a new LP in Let's Go Eat The Factory, which, as previously mentioned, is...

Ted Leo @ SSSeaport in July (more by Tamara Porras) today in NYC * The Fab Faux @ City Winery * The Immaculates @ Zebulon * Bouncing Souls @ Stone Pony * Gogol Bordello @ Terminal 5 * Gov't Mule...