Records
Monade: Monstre Cosmic
Stereolab have, in total, released roughly 4,876 albums and about 36,000 singles and EPs. Despite their prolific output the group’s...
Mar 19, 2008
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Fleet Foxes: Sun Giant EP
This yawning chasm, this Ansel Adams pictoscape that stretches sun-drenched like the balding skull of God lay yet unmarked by...
Mar 19, 2008
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Destroyer: Trouble in Dreams
Given that Dan Bejar’s work as Destroyer is so well respected and the opinion I’m set to express here is...
Mar 19, 2008
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Destroyer: Trouble in Dreams
There’s a scene in last year’s Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story where the title character (an impressionable, affable John...
Mar 19, 2008
Tracks
Tilly and the Wall: "Nights of the Living Dead (Live at SXSW)"
The relevance of a song like “Nights of the Living Dead” at a festival like SXSW is obvious. ...
Mar 19, 2008
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Fleet Foxes: "Mykonos (Live at SXSW)"
Beards & vests! Beards & vests! Thank you, Janet Weiss, for saying that Iron & Wine should change their name...
Mar 19, 2008
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X: "Los Angeles (Live at SXSW)"
Of all the kinds of magic in the air in Austin during this week, one of my favorites is “middle-aged...
Mar 19, 2008
Tracks
The Black Keys: "Psychotic Girl"
If you were Dan Auerbach, a 28-year-old dude from Ohio who could sing like Buddy Guy, how hard would you...
Mar 17, 2008
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WHY?: "The Vowels Pt. 2"
Color me uninformed, but last I heard Why? was a “he” (as in, Yoni Wolf), not a “they” (as in:...
Mar 17, 2008