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Yo La Tengo: iTunes Live Session EP

With Pavement on (what’s likely to be) permanent hiatus, I nominate Yo La Tengo for the mantle of “Matador Band...

Jan 26, 2007

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Bloc Party: A Weekend in the City

The worst song on Bloc Party's 2005 breakthrough debut, Silent Alarm, was "Price of Gasoline," where singer Okereke most judgmentally... Jan 26, 2007

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Huntsville: For the Middle Class

For the Middle Class is gorgeous and adventurous.

Jan 26, 2007

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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Some Loud Thunder

Hey, Axl: go fuck yourself! World: you suck, too. Stop making Chinese Democracy (Geffen; Never) an event, and stop falling... Jan 26, 2007

Interviews

Herbert

CMG's Aaron Newell (CMG): I'm interested in your Contract for the Composition of Music. Do I have this... Jan 25, 2007

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Spiral Beach: Spiral Beach

I hate having to write this review.

About three months ago I saw Spiral Beach live, anonymously stuck between...

Jan 19, 2007

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Precious Fathers: Precious Fathers

Vancouver is a chill city. I'm from Ottawa, a government town, well-meaning but predictably stuffy with its "well-I-never"s and gothic... Jan 18, 2007

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Deerhoof: Friend Opportunity

I’ve never felt so conflicted about an album I actually like.

Jan 18, 2007

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Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

In an era when iTunes is trying its mightiest to kill off retail at $.99 a song and scattershot mainstream...

Jan 18, 2007