Features
Interview: The Acorn
David Ritter
Acorn frontman and professional nice guy Rolf Klausener dishes on his band's recent touring adventures, the media industrial complex, and Glory Hope Mountain, their full-length debut for Paperbag Records.
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Concert Reviews
Conrad Amenta
Man, fuck people who don’t like the Constantines.
Retconning
Mark Abraham
Play this in your elevators.
Scenecasts
Chet Betz
This scenecast focuses solely on the city’s hip-hop, a once burgeoning underground fountainhead that was rivaled perhaps only by Minneapolis in terms of putting out excellent, slept-on Midwest shit.
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- Wolf Parade :: "Fine Young Cannibals"
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- Jay-Z :: "Blow the Whistle (Freestyle)"
- Scarlett Johansson :: "Anywhere I Lay My Head"
- My Morning Jacket :: "Evil Urges"
Podcasts
Traviss Cassidy
Featuring: Fuck Buttons, Roommate, Animal Collective, Bottomless Pit, Dodos, French Quarter, Fleet Foxes, David Karsten Daniels, Plants and Animals, Headlights, Re-Up Gang...
Recent Reviews
HILOTRONS :: Happymatic
Cheveu :: Cheveu
Sun Kil Moon :: April
Richard Swift :: As Onasis I & II
Portishead :: Third
diskJokke :: Staying In
Clark :: Turning Dragon
Clinic :: Do It!
The Instruments :: Dark Småland
Various Artists :: Black Stars: Ghana's Hiplife Generation Comp
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds :: Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
Howlin' Rain :: Magnificent Fiend
The Breeders :: Mountain Battles
Butcher/Müller/van der Schyff :: Way Out Northwest
The Death Set :: Worldwide
Bobby and Blumm :: Everybody Loves Bobby and Blumm
Protest the Hero :: Fortress
Kelley Polar :: I Need You to Hold On While the Sky is Falling
Neon Neon :: Stainless Style
The Dodos :: Visiter
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Record Reviews
Joel Elliott
:: Another great reissue of Love's 1967 psych-folk juggernaut. And more, again.
Constantines
Kensington Heights
:: Maturity, done right.
Ponytail
Ice Cream Spiritual
:: Just like the character GoHan from Dragonball Z. In a good way.
Anna Järvinen
Jag Fick Feeling
:: Järvinen eats vague 1970s folk-drama with the same spoon that she's shoveling contemporary pop-gasms down our gullets.
Dom Sinacola
:: I see London, I see France, I see Ryan McPhun's globetrotting pastiche of every type of music known to human ears.
The Chicaynes / The Patriots
Second Thoughts / Pharoah's Land
:: Rarified Collector: My life’s work is a cruel farce.
Me: I smell better.
Animal Collective
Water Curses
EP
:: For shame, deductive thinker.
Les Savy Fav
After the Balls Drop
:: After the Balls Drop has all the lasting power of a curiosity, and it isn’t even all that curious.
Conrad Amenta
:: Amir would be proud. Plus: eat even more shit, Michael Bay.
Flight of the Conchords
Flight of the Conchords
:: Like Ween before them, Bret & Jemaine never bludgeon the listener over the head with their cleverness.
David Karsten Daniels
Fear of Flying
:: The 28-year-old Seattle troubadour finally acts his age.
Colin Meloy
Sings Live!
:: There’s only so much Colin Meloy can do with an acoustic guitar over the course of nearly 80 minutes.
