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Sun Araw: Ancient Romans
Early in his seminal literary exposition of German psychedelic and experimental music in the ’60s and ’70s, the John Peel-lauded...
Aug 24, 2011
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Main Attrakionz: 808s & Dark Grapes II
Green Ova Undergrounds are a Bay Area collective of college-aged high school dropouts who make music that sounds like an...
Aug 19, 2011
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Beirut: The Rip Tide
The elements of exposure have been against Beirut. Six years of not being able to walk into secondhand bookshops and...
Aug 19, 2011
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Autre Ne Veut: Body EP
The first time I heard Autre Ne Veut’s self-titled debut album last year, I was startled and confounded. Like few...
Aug 19, 2011
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Tom Vek: Leisure Seizure
Tom Vek, not unlike the Juan MacLean or LCD Soundsystem, goes about making dance music in a way that...
Aug 19, 2011
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Deadbeat: Drawn and Quartered
“Same-y” and “formulaic” are generally not the most accommodating reference points for anyone with a proclivity for reggae. Reggae has...
Aug 17, 2011
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Apache Dropout: Apache Dropout
Apache Dropout is fast and to the point; the totally bitching self-titled, debut album by this garage/art trio from Bloomington,...
Aug 17, 2011
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Marissa Nadler: Marissa Nadler
One thing Marissa Nadler’s fifth full-length can’t be accused of is false advertising. If anything, it largely delivers what one...
Aug 17, 2011
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Trouble Books & Mark McGuire: Trouble Books & Mark McGuire
Fellow critic Chet Betz figured he’d solved Mark McGuire’s problem with McGuire’s okay-but-not-great solo album, Living With Yourself (2010):...
Aug 17, 2011