Evan Schlansky 
Buried Treasure: The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players(0)
March 15, 2010
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players are a self-described “indie-vaudeville-conceptual-art-rock-slideshow band,” who count among their fans Simpsons creator Matt Groening, David Cross, Eugene Mirman, The White Stripes’ Meg White, and director John Waters, who describes the band’s gigs as being “like The Lawrence Welk Show gone insane.”
I used to see this band all the time on [...]
Sounding Off: I’m The Man Who Loves You
It’s that time of year again: time to take stock in what popular music has provided us in our time of need. Time to quantify both the best music of 2009, and the best of the 2000s.
And given the fact that the Mayan calendar suggests that the world will be ending in 2012, the stakes [...]
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