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Badly Drawn Boy: It's What I'm Thinking (Part One: Photographing Snowflakes)

We’ve all seen it happen: songwriters, in their primes, following up game-changing, influential records with bloated double disc throwaways (see...

Nov 30, 2010

Weekend’s Sports opens with “Coma Summer,” the record’s prettiest and most tuneful track. An undeniably catchy anthem—don’t expect to hear...

Nov 19, 2010

Chicago’s Smith Westerns have a familiar origin story: high school kids start a band, release a lo-fi, grungy garage-pop album,...

Nov 11, 2010

“Blues X Man” was the first Jon Spencer Blues Explosion song I ever fell in love with. In three and...

Nov 04, 2010

Girls’ 2009 debut is the kind of album that’s not easily forgotten. I’ve been listening to Album consistently for about...

Nov 01, 2010

Old 97’s are aging gracefully, and thankfully not in that Elvis Costello-fedora-and-jazz-standards kind of way. The band burst onto the...

Oct 23, 2010

Wise Blood is sample-pop artist Chris Laufman, a 22 year old who recently moved to his current city Pittsburgh from...

Oct 14, 2010

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