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

Constantines :: 02 May 2008 / Ottawa, ON
Conrad Amenta

Man, fuck people who don’t like the Constantines.





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Retconning

XIV :: Fusion I (Early '70s)
Mark Abraham

Play this in your elevators.





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Scenecasts

Columbus, OH
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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Track Reviews

  • Wolf Parade :: "Fine Young Cannibals"
  • E-40 f/ Lil Jon :: "Turf Drop"
  • Jay-Z :: "Blow the Whistle (Freestyle)"
  • Scarlett Johansson :: "Anywhere I Lay My Head"
  • My Morning Jacket :: "Evil Urges"
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Podcasts

April 2008
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...




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Record Reviews

/ :: Friday, 09 May 2008

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Love :: Forever Changes (Collector's Edition) Reissue
Joel Elliott

:: Another great reissue of Love's 1967 psych-folk juggernaut. And more, again.


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Constantines
Kensington Heights

:: Maturity, done right.

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Ponytail
Ice Cream Spiritual

:: Just like the character GoHan from Dragonball Z. In a good way.

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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.

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The Ruby Suns :: Sea Lion
Dom Sinacola

:: I see London, I see France, I see Ryan McPhun's globetrotting pastiche of every type of music known to human ears.



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The Chicaynes / The Patriots
Second Thoughts / Pharoah's Land

:: Rarified Collector: My life’s work is a cruel farce.
Me: I smell better.

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Animal Collective
Water Curses EP

:: For shame, deductive thinker.

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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.

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/ :: Friday, 02 May 2008

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M83 :: Saturdays = Youth
Conrad Amenta

:: Amir would be proud. Plus: eat even more shit, Michael Bay.



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Flight of the Conchords
Flight of the Conchords

:: Like Ween before them, Bret & Jemaine never bludgeon the listener over the head with their cleverness.

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David Karsten Daniels
Fear of Flying

:: The 28-year-old Seattle troubadour finally acts his age.

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Colin Meloy
Sings Live!

:: There’s only so much Colin Meloy can do with an acoustic guitar over the course of nearly 80 minutes.

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