There are plenty of reasons to talk about Vandana Jain. Firmly entrenched in Brooklyn’s musical world, by way of India and London, Vandana Jain brings a new stimulus and plenty of head-bopping, outperforming most of the current wave of electronic-based artists. She was surrounded by music from an early age, absorbing everything from Bollywood hits, [...]
Category Archives: Music
A Little Help From Her Friends
April 1, 2013 – 5:04 pm
Melissa Ferrick’s life has always been an open book. Throughout her twenty-year career, which began on Atlantic Records, she has chronicled all the ups and downs of her life in her songwriting, and in the process came to represent a new wave of female alt-rock musicians in the mid-nineties. Her career received an early boost [...]
Don’t Frack My Mother
March 18, 2013 – 7:33 pm
Artists Against Fracking has released this video, directed by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Maximilla Lucas, and Tennessee Thomas, to garner support for the anti-fracking movement in New York State. If you want to take action, they ask that you take a minute to tweet it at Governor Cuomo here.
Eyes Wide Wider
February 14, 2013 – 1:23 pm
We at Dossier are very pleased to premiere the music video Eyes Wide Wider (Baleriac Edit) by the band Tempers, here for you on Valentine’s Day. This video also signals the directorial debut for our friend Kalika Farmer, well-known for her work with the contemporary arts festival New/Age held once a year in the Berkshires. [...]
Roman Grandinetti In Conversation
January 18, 2013 – 3:11 pm
It’s understood by now that digital technology, for all the distance and disconnect it can create, has generally done just the opposite: bridging societal gaps, reviving and revitalizing analog technology, and—ultimately—fostering a broad worldwide connectedness. Creative agency CNNCTD, and their project CNNCTD+100, might be one of the best contemporary examples of that kind of experience. [...]
Brenmar Rising
January 8, 2013 – 2:15 pm
Bill Salas, better known as Brenmar, makes what he calls “club music for the present.” His production combines the smooth vibe of Chicago house music with the production sensibilities of classic hip-hop and R&B; filtered through a deep understanding of sound design. Brenmar quickly gained notoriety for his remixes of pop acts Jamie Foxx, Cassie, [...]
Jennifer Herrema
January 3, 2013 – 9:09 am
In the year 1998 the first mass-produced digital audio player was introduced. Will Smith had a huge hit with “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It.” The Spice Girls broke up. Total Request Live began airing on MTV. And Royal Trux released Accelerator, something solid and not at all plastic or commercialized, something personal and universal. Maybe even [...]
Dan Deacon in Conversation
December 7, 2012 – 6:00 am
Dan Deacon has a disarmingly modest countenance that stands in sharp contrast to his music: the gnashing 22st-century surf-metal of Spiderman Of The Rings, the hypnotizing feelgood clockwork crescendos of Bromst, or the venn diagrams of old and new instrumentations in his latest, America. Anyone who has seen Deacon live will remember his sound – [...]
Lizzi Bougatsos in Conversation
November 29, 2012 – 6:00 am
There are few people for whom it is safe to employ the cliché, “She needs no introduction.” Lizzi Bougatsos—visual artist, Gang Gang Dance frontwoman, I.U.D. drummer and charmingly gentle weirdo—is one of them. Back in 2008, when Aaron Bondaroff’s show My Life in T-Shirts opened at Terrence Koh’s now defunct Asia Song Society, she was [...]
