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- Pushing the radio forward
Supreme Cuts create the kind of beats that are making pop music sound like the underground
by Miles Raymer
When Mike Perry and Austin Keultjes, aka Supreme Cuts, show up to talk to me at Joy Yee in Chinatown, they’re visibly exhausted from spending the day moving into a new practice space just north of Pilsen. They haven’t eaten since they woke up, and when our meal arrives the interview is derailed temporarily as Perry and Keultjes concentrate intensely on wolfing down a staggering amount of Chinese food.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] - Fiona and Regina: Trying too hard and sharing way too much
Veteran beneficiaries of major-label hype and longtime critical darlings both, Fiona Apple and Regina Spektor seem like women that only a mook could fail to applaud: They are smart, passionate, ambitious, musically challenging, lovably quirky and supremely self-empowered—everything a great pop
- Around Town: Taking Flight
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