Email Author Eric Harvey

2011 Stories by Eric Harvey

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  Underwhelmed And Overstimulated, The Finale: Jay-Z And Kanye West Fiddle While The Underground Gets Wasted

  published Dec 24, 2011

  This concludes Sound of the City's year-end roundtable, a conversation about pop music in 2011 between Tom Ewing, Eric Harvey, Maura Johnston, Nick Murray, and Katherine St. Asaph. Read it all again. ... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Underwhelmed And Overstimulated, Part V: Who Is Bon Iver, Againr

  published Dec 21, 2011

  Sound of the City's year-end roundtable, with contributions from Tom Ewing, Eric Harvey, Maura Johnston, Nick Murray, and Katherine St. Asaph, continues. Follow along here. Greetings to you four ... More >>

• I Want My 18-34 Demographic: MTV's Research-Heavy (And Kinda Unhip) Approach To Melding Radio And TV

  published Aug 01, 2011

  MTV turns 30 today. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. The first 59 minutes of MTV—12:01 a.m. to 1 a.m., exactly 30 years ago today—... More >>

• Before You Die, You See The 0.0: Three Possible Treatments For Pitchfork-Related Thrillers

  published Jun 09, 2011

  Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times reported that the Duplass brothers—the siblings behind last year's cutesy indie Cyrus—were shopping a script for a thriller in which the mother of a recent... More >>

• Boy's Club: Tyler, The Creator's Goblin Talks Itself Into A Corner

  published May 10, 2011

  For an album so undeniably 2011, Tyler, the Creator's Goblin sure starts off sounding a lot like 1993. The first words we hear him spit on Goblin are "I'm not a fuckin' role model"--a slightly altered... More >>

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  Tyler, the Creator's Boy's Club

  published May 11, 2011

  For an album so undeniably 2011, Tyler, the Creator's Goblin sure starts off sounding a lot like 1993. The first words we hear him spit... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  TV on the Radio Turn Their Gaze Inward

  published Apr 12, 2011

  For a brief moment in late 2008, it felt like the clouds were parting after eight dark years, and TV on the Radio's supremely great "Golden Age" might just be heralding the start of something truly a... More >>

• James Blake vs. The Machine

  published February 9, 2011

  The first most non-geeks heard of James Blake was in October, when he flayed a Feist deep cut, stuffed it with dubstep's dank sub-bass, and... More >>

• Reveling In Social Anxiety with Arcade Fire and Vampire Weekend

  published January 19, 2011

  In a year when you had to overturn rocks to find interesting guitar-based stuff on the pop charts, it was tempting to excessively celebrate... More >>