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The Drums: Portamento

In the words of one of our esteemed staff, “I like this more than I want to.”

That’s completely fair, because...

Oct 10, 2011

If, like me, you regard terms like “retro-themed” and “‘80s throwback” with a healthy degree of skepticism, you’d be forgiven...

Oct 10, 2011

Gemini James. Janus Blake. The Two-Step Two-Face. I could go on.

Here, in what is effectively the beginning of the...

Oct 10, 2011

If the last scrawling minutes of summer are a swearing overexertion to generate fond memories and lasting moments before the...

Oct 10, 2011

Before I get to Wilco’s surprisingly good new record The Whole Love, allow me to linger on the past for...

Oct 05, 2011

So, this DaVinci record is pretty unremarkable, huh? I mean that as a compliment. In a couple months, critics and...

Oct 05, 2011

The latest from Shara Worden is a dramatic foil to 2006’s rock-centric Bring Me the Workhorse and 2008’s polymorphous A...

Oct 05, 2011

For their second EP, Color Your Life (2010), Twin Sister managed to traverse the tightrope between tired and tiring, gliding...

Oct 05, 2011

Andrei Tarkovsky called his work “sculpting in time.” It always suggested to me a return to cinema’s origins, before editing...

Oct 01, 2011