The Retrospective

Photo Credit: Chion Wolf After completing a major Canadian tour and reaching the top of Billboard’s Heatseekers chart with their most recent release titled Fantasies, it seemed a little… quaint to have Metric at the Webster Theater in Connecticut’s capital city. Big names usually aren’t so common at the 70 year-old Webster and, for anyone […]

Photo Credit: Justin Oullette It was a mysterious email. Seven words, one punctuation mark; a question. Are you guys based in San Francisco? While the answer isn’t as simple as yes (The Retrospective team spans the globe from L.A. and San Francisco to New York City and all the way over to Madrid), for Francis […]

discussing everything from “Afro Punk” various meanings to the strange fact that Rick Reuben drives a Honda insight.

Wired Magazine and the TckTckTck campaign

photo credit Barry Yanowitz When a friend offered me a ticket to the Pixies sold out show at Hammerstein Ballroom last Tuesday, I couldn’t resist. Even though I’m the most casual of Pixies fans, being able to identify two, maybe three songs at the most, I figured seeing them perform their 1989 masterpiece Doolittle in […]

Tyler Brule, Jenna Lyons, Frank Muytjens – image courtsey of Monocle Magazine Monocle Magazine, purveyor of all things cool, held a holiday party on November 17th at the J. Crew Men’s Shop in SoHo. It might seem surprising that a lifestyle magazine from London would hold a party in NYC, but for the listeners of […]