Healthy Harmony

Written by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni on October 19, 2007. Posted in Music, Posts

While Los Angeles art-spazz quartet Health has indulged some of the dance and Nintendo-core elements unfortunately proliferating like viruses in their respective post-indie rock and post-hardcore scenes, the band’s self-titled debut comes a lot closer to conveying the band’s powerhouse live presence and innovative writing style. It’s hardly novel to combine screams, stabbing keyboards, mushroom-cloud
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In the Country at Scandinavia House

Written by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni on June 18, 2007. Posted in Music, Posts

Once again, Scandinavia House hosts one of the best bargains tickets going on in town tonight, this time with Norwegian trio In The Country. Equal parts mournful and pretty, In The Country’s compositions show a great deal of imagination at work in the mind of pianist bandleader Morten Qvenild. Although the band — which also
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Ilmiliekki Quartet

Written by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni on June 14, 2007. Posted in Music, Posts

If you’re hungering for a taste of jazz with that perfect balance of traditional and progressive sensibilities, you’re in luck this evening. At five bucks, you just can’t get a better deal than Helsinki, Finland’s Ilmiliekki Quartet, to say nothing of the fact that this’ll probably be your only chance to see the group for
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