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Albums of the Year, Part 2: Frank Ocean, "Nostalgia, Ultra"

Albums of the Year, Part 2: Frank Ocean, “Nostalgia, Ultra”

Love Me Now, When I'm Gone, Love Me None By Taylor K. Long For an emotional R&B singing moniker, Christopher Breaux aka Frank Ocean couldn’t have done much better. Writers often use water metaphors – an ocean, in particular – to represent feelings, emotions, and hidden...

Fleet Foxes @ Bowery Ballroom, Wednesday, July 9th

When the Fleet Foxes performed at Bowery Ballroom last week, frontman Robin Pecknold had a cold. But unlike a downtrodden, silent Frank Sinatra, the audience might have never known it if no one had told us (either the Dutchess or the Duke – the openers – mentioned it in their stage banter, as did Pecknold...