Soil Compilation

On this week’s Lit Show, Justin Torres, a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a current Stegner Fellow at Stanford, discusses his debut We the Animals: A novel. Listen to the full interview over at The Lit Show. Torres is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and he’s currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. His fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Glimmer Train, Tin House, and elsewhere.

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By Alexa Squire In early fall 2009, Lady Gaga hadn’t released The Fame Monster yet, Katy Perry was only known for kissing a girl, and “chillwave” was a completely new word for a new genre of music. Washed Out and Toro y Moi, two of the most well-known chillwave artists, had just released Life of Leisure and Causers of This, and bloggers were using the term to describe their lo-fi, blippy, danceable beats that relied heavily on reverb and looping. When Alan Palomo (the man behind Neon Indian) released Psychic Chasms that winter, his songs fit the definition and it … Continued

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Rank Artist Recording Label 1 Male Bonding Endless Now Sub Pop 2 Jonathan Wilson Gentle Spirit Bella Union 3 Blitzen Trapper American Goldwing Sub Pop 4 Mates of State Mountaintops Barksuk 5 Wild Flag Wild Flag Merge 6 Abstract Artimus Rite of Passage Dire Life 7 Pepper Rabbit Red Velvet Snowball Kanine 8 Toro Y Moi Freaking Out [EP] Carpark 9 Collections of Colonies of Bees Giving Hometapes 10 Dom Family of Love Astralwerks 11 Fucked Up David Comes to Life Matador 12 Can’t Dreams Come True Terrible 13 Portugal. The Man In the Mounts In The Cloud Approaching AIRballoons-Atlantic … Continued

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