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Gentleman Jesse : Leaving Atlanta
Gentleman Jesse, a.k.a. Atlanta punk-about-town Jesse Smith, seems to specialize in the ephemeral. Though I remember liking his group’s 2008...
Apr 04, 2012
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Kaiser Chiefs: Start the Revolution Without Me
I did not expect to be writing about Kaiser Chiefs in 2012. Do you even remember them? I admit that...
Apr 04, 2012
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Burial: Kindred EP
DJ/musicologist Terre Thaemlitz laments the erasure of the “hyper-specific” (specifically, queer, regional) origins of house music into a vague, superficially...
Mar 28, 2012
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Miryo: MIRYO a.k.a. JOHONEY EP
I wouldn’t exactly call myself a K-pop expert, but over the last several weeks I’ve become something of an obsessive....
Mar 28, 2012
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Cursive : I Am Gemini
It is an odd truth about theatricality that in order to evaluate it honestly one must first ignore it completely....
Mar 28, 2012
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Nacho Picasso and Blue Sky Black Death: Lord of the Fly Mixtape
Rare is the type of second chance Seattle’s Nacho Picasso and production duo Blue Sky Black Death have—after their largely...
Mar 28, 2012
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Julia Holter: Ekstasis
The remarkable new album by Julia Holter unfolds within the space of a difference: “This is not ekstasis / This...
Mar 22, 2012
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Dirty Three: Toward the Low Sun
If you come to Dirty Three’s first album in six years hoping they haven’t changed much, you’ll have to skip...
Mar 22, 2012
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Big K.R.I.T.: 4eva N A Day
It seems Big K.R.I.T.‘s successes thus far haven’t been due to his lyrical ability so much as to his honesty;...
Mar 22, 2012