Records

Noveller: Glacial Glow

Ambient music seems to be at a bit of an impasse, which is a weird thing to say in a...

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The Last Hurrah!!: Spiritual Non-Believers

HP Gundersen was listening to “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” (1969) one day and thought, “what 2011 needs is an even longer version of that track.”

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DGRS: Dream On Dreamy

Whether it’s the collaborative momentum of DGRS (Degrees) duo Mikael Jacobson (also of the Trick, Late Night Conversations) and...

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Shannon and the Clams: Sleep Talk

Like many of their peers from the San Francisco Bay Area, Oakland’s Shannon and the Clams—a trio consisting of bassist...

Festivals

Pitchfork Music Festival 2011

:: Photo by Nate Smith

The big, startling revelation that I doddered out with, sun-baked and hungover, after a weekend at...

Tracks

Real Estate: "It's Real"

If I purposefully deploy the word “chillwave” does that I mean I have to completely renounce the title of “human”...

Tracks

Novella: "Oh Brian"

Anyone who’s seen the 2005 film Stoned will come away knowing the precise dimensions of Leo Gregory’s cock and...

Tracks

Pepper Rabbit: "Rose Mary Stretch"

Perhaps no adjective in the musical lexicon has traveled farther from its original meaning than “psychedelic,” whose iterations today—despite four...

Tracks

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: "Same Mistake"

When I first heard this song on the local college radio station, I thought the DJ was trying to put...