Holiday Shores: Columbus’d The Whim

Likely due to their home state, name and penchant for upbeat chord progressions, Florida's Holiday Shores draw comparisons to a slew of feel-good bands like Wavves, Beach Fossils and the Beach Boys, to name a few. But writing them off as surfer-dude tunes misses the mark. The band wisely tempers sunny melodies with a healthy dissonant sheen, such that each carefully-crafted pop melody comes wrapped …

1000º C: Deyrolle

by Zeva Bellel In the wee morning hours of 1 February 2008, a four-alarm fire ravaged 1000º C: Deyrolle documents the aftermath with hauntingly beautiful images of the shop. “The scene had a Pompeii feeling to it, almost like an archeological dig,†recalls Bochet of the charred and ransacked insides of the nearly two-hundred-year-old boutique. Deyrolle’s owner Louis Albert de Broglie gave Bochet, a close …

Andrew and Peter Sutherland: Amateur Hour

Brothers, artists and Colorado natives Andrew and Peter Sutherland are having their first ever show together, called "Amateur Hour" and opening tonight at NYC's ATM gallery. The title of the show celebrates the time we live in now and the line between professionals and amateurs. The thought comes from the duo who are psyched that people are doing it themselves—making music on their computers at …