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Radioactive Bishop: 17:52 EP
The idea that just about anybody can create convincingly professional-looking or -sounding works of art with nary a dime to...
May 30, 2011
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The Elected: Bury Me in My Rings
“You loved too hard / You blew out your heart.” So goes the opening line to (the uncannily Elliott Smith-like)...
May 30, 2011
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Girls Names: Dead to Me
Seeing as I didn’t begrudge landlocked, Indiana-based We Don’t Surf their tossed-off take on the surf-rock genre, it’d make a...
May 30, 2011
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Purling Hiss: "The Hoodoo"
Rock ’n’ Rolllllllll. This seems to be the rallying cry continually issued by Mike Polizze’s Purling Hiss, the jam-y, glam-y,...
May 27, 2011
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Riz MC: "All of You"
You have to feel sorry for Jodie Whittaker, and when I say sorry, I don’t mean in a “you poor...
May 25, 2011
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Elzhi: "Detroit State of Mind"
Rappers: don’t do this. Don’t cover Illmatic (1994). Don’t “put your own twist on a classic.” Don’t re-imagine. If you...
May 24, 2011
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Miracle Fortress: Was I the Wave?
Moving to Quebec (and Montreal in particular) from elsewhere in Canada is something of a mindfuck. Not only is there...
May 24, 2011
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Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat: Everything's Getting Older
If you saw The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2006) and thought, “You know, what this...
May 24, 2011
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Mountains: Air Museum
I tried to sell my copy of Choral (2009) not three months after I’d purchased it, which should be an...
May 24, 2011