approval matrix: 2/16/14 thru 2/22/14

Here's our take on the best and worst in music this week.

HIGHBROW

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[box type="shadow"] Mark your calendars: on 2/28, Smashing Pumpkins' frontman William Corgan (as he's billed himself for this event) is improvising an 8 to 9 hour ambient musical interpretation of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha at Madame ZuZu's, a tea-shop he opened outside of Chicago last year.  Your soul is the whole world, which is a vampire.[/box] [box type="shadow"] Fiona Apple will appear in a French Sci-Fi spoof called H-Man as Bio-Frau, an environmental activist held captive in a German power plant.  It's highbrow because it's French.[/box][/one_half_last] DESPICABLE <<----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>BRILLIANT [box type="shadow"]

Bill Simpson, Mayor of the City of Aberdeen, has unveiled a controversial statue of Kurt Cobain in the grunge star's hometown (a place he hated, BTW) and it's so embarrassingly rendered that even the statue is weeping.[/box] [box type="shadow"]

After announcing the indefinite hiatus of Thee Oh Sees a few months ago, frontman John Dwyer is scheduled to re-unite his old band Coachwhips for some SXSW appearances.  Can we get in line tomorrow?[/box][/one_half_last]

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LOWBROW