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PRIZZY PRIZZY PLEASE – Chroma Cannonreviewed by Ryan Moore
MALL’D TO DEATH – Can’t Make a Livingreviewed by NKDBY
On Saturday afternoon I jumped into my car and popped the new Mall’d To Death disk into my dash. As I sped off, Tyler’s unique [...]
COLISEUM – House With a Cursereviewed by Jake Benjamin
Coliseum is a niche band, the kind of music that is a home run or a strikeout depending on the taste of the listener — [...]
Loch Lomond – Ghost Of An Earthworm
Having toured extensively this year with The Decemberists and Blitzen Trapper (among others), Loch Lomond now emphasizes in its new recorded output a directness and [...]
Interview: James Graham of The Twilight Sadwords by Jon Aubin | photo by Nic Shoenfeld
To the uninitiated, the best way to describe The Twilight Sad’s sound is as such: imagine Ian Curtis singing in a Scottish brogue, backed up [...]
DEMONS IN THE SPRING by Joe Menoreviewed by Simon A. Thalmann
Akashic Books, 280 pages, trade paperback, $14.00 It isn’t spoiling anything to say that the 20 stories in Joe Meno’s 2008 collection Demons in the [...]
Shellshag – Crashing Rockets
In attempts to dance about Shellshag’s architecture, they’ve been explained as an amalgam of The Breeders, Sonic Youth, The Ramones, DFA, David Byrne, Guided By [...]
The Books – A Cold Freezin’ Night
The visionary duo of Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong, collectively known to the world as The Books, are pleased to announce their signing to Temporary Residence [...]
WOLF PARADE – Expo 86reviewed by Beth Harper
From the first beat of Expo 86, Wolf Parade wastes no time jumping headfirst into the high-energy sonic explosion of their third full-length album. Named [...]
WHAT CHEER? BRIGADE – We Blow You Suckreviewed by Luke Winkie
Sometimes a record comes along that’s so divergent (and so weird) that you can’t help but adore it. These albums usually aren’t the critical bombshells, [...]
THE MENZINGERS – Chamberlain Waitsreviewed by Mr. Z
Red Scare is surprising the music world with some of their newfound sounds these days. No longer is the label sticking to the pop-punk formula [...]
Insects Vs. Robots – Sacred Moose
Insects Vs. Robots is a psychedelic storm front with some distant cumulus clouds of prog. Their notes rain down twisting and vibrant, then change direction [...]
RIP Pete Quaife of The Kinks
The BBC reports that Pete Quaife of The Kinks has died today at age 66. Quaife was a founding member, and played with the band [...]
The Front: There Will Be Chipsby Nate Pollard
JAHCOOZI – Barefoot Wandererreviewed by Andrew Good
Jahcoozi has been steadily evolving over the past decade from a glitchy IDM project with a soulful vocalist at its center to something much more [...]
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