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John Frusciante – Shadows Collide With People
"And you can function as someone besides who you are," John Frusciante sings on his 2004 solo album, "Shadows Collide With People." Lyrics like this are what make "Shadows" so brilliant. Frusciante subtly shifts conventional binaries and clichés and delivers them with such quiet confidence that his unconventional views almost pass you by. Unlike many […]
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CT Recommends: The Mindy Project
The “Mindy Project” is the little show that could. It started off with dismal critical reviews caused by its poor writing and acting. There were rumors that it would be cancelled. But, like so many other shows that started off slow, the “Mindy Project” has shown itself to be on track to be a lasting […]
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CT Recommends: Ibibio Sound Machine – “Ibibio Sound Machine”
Ibibio Sound Machine, a 2014 afrobeat dance collective fronted by Nigerian singer Eno Williams, knows its stuff, but not necessarily in the way you'd expect. The band doesn't do songs with ambitious structures that extend over six minutes. It doesn't have a field day with vocoders and drum machines in the way that's practically expected […]
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CT Recommends: Lemuria
Scholars once proposed that a long-lost sunken continent in the Indian Ocean known as Lemuria was responsible for unexplainable fossil distribution patterns in India and Madagascar. In the era of modern plate tectonics, the theory has been long debunked, and the other Lemuria, the Buffalo, NY punk trio, remain similarly undiscovered. Lemuria seem perfectly comfortable […]
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CT Recommends: Intouchables
Often, people aren’t enthused with the idea of subtitles. When you’re watching a film, who wants to be reading all the while? Movies are supposed to give your mind a break from work and hard concerntration. But Intouchables, the 2011 French film featuring Omar Sy and François Cluzet, is sure to change your mind. After […]
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CT Recommends: Tropic Thunder
“Tropic Thunder” is a movie beyond words. But, I will try my best to express the essence of this movie in the limited medium that has been offered me. “Tropic Thunder” is a movie about a group of actors who are in a movie, “Tropic Thunder”, about a group of American soldiers during the Vietnam […]
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CT Recommends: The Suburbs by Arcade Fire
On “The Suburbs”, Arcade Fire explores the human struggle that exists within a world confined by white picket fences. The band beautifully balances punk rawness with sophisticated songwriting and arrangement, providing a depiction of the everyman in which he is kicking and screaming in confusion and terror, but ultimately knows what’s wrong with the world. […]
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CT Recommends: Ray LaMontagne
Ray LaMontagne delivers soulful, more energetic version of Iron and Wine. Read More
