Starsailor Band Members Know About Music and Haircuts!

Some of the music I'm currently listening to as per some of your questions comes mostly from Rilo Kiley, Nada Surf, Tegan&Sarah, Keane, and Starsailor.
Starsailor has been a favorite for a while but I'm especially enjoying them these days for some reason.
Check out these vids: a poetic blend of indie rock and not-to-be-ignored aesthetics.
I want to know who cuts their hair.
Well, that, and who helps with the fusing of the classical bits in Four to the Floor.
I fully recommend their stuff. If you enjoy British Invasion sounds a la Keane, Coldplay, Stereophonics or even The Killers and The Bravery from the States, you're bound to like these guys. Starsailor hail from Manchester and here is their Myspace page.
Yes, I do like them better than Oasis. But then again, I like most music better than Oasis these days. Sorry, Liam!

The Uber-creative Rauschenberg Takes the Final Bow

The world of art suffered a great loss yesterday. Robert Rauschenberg, the very influential American artist, died at the age of 82. The NY Times notes:

"A painter, photographer, printmaker, choreographer, onstage performer, set designer and, in later years, even a composer, Mr. Rauschenberg defied the traditional idea that an artist stick to one medium or style. He pushed, prodded and sometimes reconceived all the mediums in which he worked.

Building on the legacies of Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Cornell and others, he thereby helped to obscure the lines between painting and sculpture, painting and photography, photography and printmaking, sculpture and photography, sculpture and dance, sculpture and technology, technology and performance art — not to mention between art and life."

And here's one of his statements that I truly appreciate and with which I fully concur:

“Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can’t read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.”

He will be missed. Thank you for your uninhibited and honest art, Robert Rauschenberg!

Read full tribute here.
graph per ny times