Morning Bites: Birthdays for Larry Bird and Willa Cather, Bolaño’s Nazis, Victoria Legrand on Air, and more

Willa Cather, Tom Waits, and Larry Bird all celebrate birthdays today.  Who had the better jump shot?  We’re going to go with Cather. At Tablet: Nazis and the work of Roberto Bolaño. Levi Asher on Vonnegut and Vonnegut biographies. Don’t want your mind wandering?  A Yale study says to meditate. Jonny Greenwood to score P.T. Anderson’s The Master. Air teams up with Victoria Legrand of Beach House for the ultimate indie baby making collaboration. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, and […]

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New Beach House! Let the Long, Glorious Winter Begin!

I waited, waited, and waited for the follow up to what I considered to be the best album of 2008, Devotion by Beach House.  I won’t have to wait that much longer, as Teen Dream, one of the albums I most anticipate for 2010 will come out in the years first month on Sub Pop. The duo is definitely growing, and I think Impose summed it up best when they called Victoria Legrand’s delivery on this song her “huskiest yet”. […]

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