HEALTH – DARK MAGIC (ALBUM REVIEW)
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HEALTH – DARK MAGIC (ALBUM REVIEW)

  It’s been a half-decade of contemplation and anticipation for HEALTH fans. After 2010’s Disco 2, and hearing virtually nothing (except a 2013 Max Payne video game soundtrack), I wondered whether these L.A.-based experimental noise rockers would soon be filed in the ‘Where Are They Now?’  file. With HEALTH’s creativity and innate non-conformity, it is…

CRYSTAL CASTLES & HEALTH @ EMOS (SHOW REVIEW)
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CRYSTAL CASTLES & HEALTH @ EMOS (SHOW REVIEW)

 Nobody quite sparks the imagination like Alice Glass and Ethan Kath.  The members of the electro-noise group Crystal Castles have deftly created a shroud of macabre mystery to surround their dark and diabolical personas.  Through gothic imagery, epic seizure-inducing light shows, and Alice’s banshee-like stage antics, Crystal Castles has gathered a following that is as…