Author Archives: Stephanie Tran

Lady Luck

Living in New York for the last fourteen years, I have amassed a really wonderful group of smart, talented, and supportive female friends. Unfortunately, our varied professions and scattered personal lives make it difficult to get together (as a group) on a regular basis. In fact, I think we talk about it more over emails, [...]

Taken By Trees

Victoria Bergsman is a Swedish songwriter, musician, and vocalist best known for the band The Concretes. She also lent vocals to the  insanely catchy Peter Bjorn & John single Young Folks. Her first solo project, Taken by Trees just released an album East of Eden which is a collaboration with Pakistani musicians. National Geographic did a mini-documentary on the [...]

Girls at Webster Hall

Saturday night Girls performed an amazing show at Webster Hall, with Dum Dum Girls as opener. My favorite parts of the performance – and there were many – were the flowers that were placed all over the stage for the Girls set, Christopher Owen’s hair, his pleated-khaki-flooded-dad-pants paired with white socks and black shoes, and [...]

Wait What?

Wait What’s The Notorious XX is a mash up of  the Notorious B.I.G’s Life After Death and The XX’s self-titled debut put out by some 24-year-old tech dude/DJ in San Francisco who apparently once bought a second Ipod to listen to both simultaneously. “Wait… What?” is exactly what I said to myself when I came across [...]