The revival in interest in early electronic music produces an awkward paradox. Salisbury From Veronica Vasicka’s ‘Minimal Waves’ series to the forgotten proto-house classics loved […]
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Mystery Jets
Mystery Jets have determinedly ploughed the indiepop furrow for many years now, consistently churning Jets out above-average tunes, resolutely unbuffeted by stylistic and generic developments […]
Historical Background
Led by Dutch commercial interests, European coloni zation of the Hudson River Valley began in earnest in 1624 with the settlement of Fort Orange (Albany). […]
Toro Y Moi
A full CD-R release of a two-anda-half-year-old chillwave tour? Goon, then. Toro Can’t be more irritating than that Portlandia theme tune. Oh, he’s singing about […]
Hunting for a Way Through the Americas
The lure of the Indies continued to burn bright, As shown in Columbus’s search for a passage on his last voyage. And on 25 September […]
Disappears
I would rather have a band put something new out every couple of months than see them play like three times a year. I mean, […]
A Room with a View
By 1768, at ager 39, the taciturn, thoughtful Lieutenant James Cook, RN, had risen about as high as a common seaman could expect to go […]
The American Clyde
The nation’s leading city continued to move ahead when peace at last came after. the seven years of the American Revolution. Stephen Girard opened trade […]
Britain Keeps the Sea
And Contains European Militarism for the 100 Years of the Pax Britannica The little ship, just 90 feet long on deck, was tackling Cape Horn […]
SHIP NOTES SEAPORT & MUSEUM NEWS
Many stories of oursran ding naval service during the controversial Vietnam War have gone untold. This is one such story: the extraordinary saga of a […]