By Dan Leroy
A couple of weeks ago, an expert on the Harry Potter series told an audience of high school kids how lucky they were to have this Big Shared Experience--these seven books and 41,000 words in common. What does Harry Potter have to do with hip-hop in 2008? In an age when many year-end lists should be subtitled "Ten More Albums You've Never Heard of and Will Never, Ever Hear," plenty.
Technology has made the world smaller, and in response, we've found smaller and smaller worlds to
Lauren Dukoff​Devendra Banhart was holed up in the bohemian beach town of Bolinas for the summer, making his next record with Paul Butler of Band Of Bees (now just called The Bees).They took up residence in a private home and set to work on What Will We Be, an album that includes producer Noah Georgeson, Greg Rogove of Priestbird, Luckey Remington of the Pleased, and Rodrigo Amarante of Little Joy. The upcoming release is said to be a mellow affair, dotted with references to R&B, Latin mus
markevinic72/FlickrIt ain't Bi-Rite, but don't hold that against 'em.Xanath could be a Roxy Music song, a character in a Dragonlance book, or the nom de hack for a pimply post-pubescent Internet troll. Pronounced "shah-NATH," the word has a mystical, over-worldly connotation: zenith meets Xanax -- in a galaxy far, far away. In actuality, Xanath is both a Veracruzan brand of smooth vanilla liqueur and an ice cream shop on Valencia in the Mission. We first wrote about Xanath a few months ag