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AIDS Wolf: "Catholic for Rent"
Since we all recognize the principal function of a music video to be the translation of sounds into appropriate images,...
Feb 01, 2011
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Women: "Bullfight"
If Women are dead, let’s hope their after-life is filled with strange hauntings like “Bullfight”—one of their very loveliest songs....
Jan 31, 2011
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Twin Sister: Alternates
While 2010 brought with it several opportunities to open my latched-tight heart to a number of people/prospects/ideas I wouldn’t normally...
Jan 28, 2011
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Smith Westerns: Dye It Blonde
Dye It Blonde, the second full length by Chicago’s Smith Westerns, reminds me of the opening credit sequence to Todd...
Jan 28, 2011
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John Vanderslice & the Magik*Magik Orchestra: White Wilderness
John Vanderslice’s eighth album is simultaneously the most ambitious and least belabored effort that the producer and singer-songwriter has released....
Jan 28, 2011
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Rebekah Higgs: Little Voice
Little Voice is hardly Rebekah Higgs’ first shot at this whole “pretty indie pop” thing, though it’d be easy to...
Jan 28, 2011
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Peter Bjorn and John / Lykke Li: "Breaker, Breaker" / "Get Some"
The last few Peter Bjorn and John albums have gotten progressively smaller and pettier after Writer’s Block (2006), as if...
Jan 28, 2011
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Gucci Mane f/ Sliq B & Tracy T: "Turnt Up"
No one will ever accuse Radric Davis of being an energetic man. Check his videos: he’s a heap of catatonic...
Jan 28, 2011