Brooklyn’s Shea Stadium hosted more than 2,000 performances during its tenure from 2009 to 2017, when the inexorable tide of gentrification closed its doors. A warehouse/living space/music venue that exemplified old-school DIY, Shea hosted all manner of bands in their earliest of stages, including Speedy Ortiz, DIIV, Parquet Courts, Maggie …
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Michelle Zauner, a.k.a. Japanese Breakfast, appeared on The Daily Show on Wednesday to discuss her new memoir, Crying in H Mart. The book, which quickly shot up the New York Times bestseller list upon its release last month, examines Zauner’s relationship to the Korean-American cooking she grew up with in the wake of …
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When Michelle Zauner lost her mother in 2014, the only thing that got her through was food. The Korean American musician, who has won acclaim for the dreamy indie rock she records as Japanese Breakfast, found that learning to cook comforting dishes like jatjuk (pine-nut porridge) and kimchi-jjigae (a savory, …
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Japanese Breakfast‘s Michelle Zauner continues her busy year with the announcement of Jubilee, her third album, out June 4th. Zauner dropped the single “Be Sweet” Tuesday, featuring a hilarious self-directed video that stars Zauner and Mannequin Pussy’s Marisa Dabice as FBI agents. They work late nights, tracing maps and gripping …
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