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Little Jungles: Wuts Goin Thru Yer Head
We’re fast approaching an era in which most fully-fledged, great pop songs come fully formed out of absolutely nowhere.
Or, okay,...
Mar 16, 2011
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Shotgun Jimmie / Jon McKiel: Transistor Sister / Confidence Lodge
The Old Confidence Lodge is a recording studio and performance venue in Riverport, Nova Scotia, anonymously nestled on the southern...
Mar 16, 2011
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The Two Koreas: "Scared Straight"
Say what you will about the splintered face of indie music with its incalculable shards of genres and cliques; it...
Mar 15, 2011
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o F F: Disenchanted Fairytale EP
Accustomed to EPs being attractively brief, I’ve sampled this, the teensie-tiniest of EPs of supposed allegiance to Clan Destine Records,...
Mar 08, 2011
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Tiger Bones: Go Over Here EP
From local Chicago quartet Tiger Bones, Go Over Here is a nicely sketched-out debut EP, rife with baleful garage/surf rock...
Mar 04, 2011
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Dirty Beaches: Badlands
What does it mean, in 2011, to name your album after a movie from the early 1970s that’s set in...
Feb 24, 2011
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Dumbo Gets Mad: "Marmelade Kids"
We all have our favorite memories of Disney losing their shit. Whether it’s “Night on Bald Mountain” being played in...
Feb 22, 2011
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Tearjerker: Strangers
Toronto’s Tearjerker is an assemblage of everything I want from a band bearing the “shoegaze” family crest—namely, that deeply appealing...
Feb 22, 2011
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Glitter Bones: Amulet Calls EP
How To Dress Well’s Love Remains (2010) proved it possible to convincingly establish a sense of place for a listener...
Feb 15, 2011