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The Wind Whistles: "After All"
The upsurge in popularity of Boy/Girl twee around the middle of our current decade doomed it to the reactive shockwave...
Aug 14, 2009
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Cam'ron f/ Vado: "La Bomba"
Opinions on Cam thoroughly established, you don’t need to read a review of Killa’s Gangsta Grillz tape, but in a...
Aug 14, 2009
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Pissed Jeans: King of Jeans
Silly me. Here I was, ready to corral Pissed Jeans frontman Matt Korvette into the same putrid dung heap that...
Aug 14, 2009
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Talbot Tagora: Lessons in the Woods or a City
We need not talk about common cause. A lot of these lo-fi acts have little to do with each other,...
Aug 14, 2009
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Cass McCombs: Catacombs
I encountered Cass McCombs last in 2005 when I saw him and a small backing band open for the Decemberists...
Aug 14, 2009
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Best Coast: Where the Boys Are
That Where The Boys Are should emerge as the shitgaze zeitgeist enters its twilight is no deliberate err on the...
Aug 14, 2009
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Radiohead: "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)"
Pink Floyd were always a primary influence on Radiohead, no matter the period: Dark Side of the Moon (1974) to...
Aug 13, 2009
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Jumbling Towers: "Gilberta"
You’ve got to admire a lovingly released 7” of patient, finely honed indie that sounds how Destroyer should sound the...
Aug 12, 2009
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Silk Flowers: "Flash of Light"
The problem with many “chillwave” artists is how they miss the point of their Daft Punkish synth hits: to sound...
Aug 12, 2009