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Review: Pop Singles– All Gone
Pop Singles All Gone Vacant Valley There are two kinds of people who’ll listen to this record; people who will say it sounds like the Go-Betweens at some point because they’ve heard the Go-Betweens,...
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Singles Bar #13: Western Steez
optional title: Diana’s Taco nope Taco Leg– “Raiders” (from self titled LP, due 10/23/2012) VICE-approved best/worst band in the universe TACO LEG are putting an LP out through Fan Death on the 23rd of...
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Review: Negative Reinforcement– ‘Dog’
Negative Reinforcement Dog Coffin Cut The world felt thick as hell, man. I couldn’t do anything; microwave a meal, take a shower, apply for jobs, whatever. The bottom had fallen out. Sometimes I’d just...
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Alex Griffin’s Top 10 Albums of 2012
The way life tends to go is that each year feels more important than the one preceding it, but musically, 2012 left me pretty jaded; this year didn’t feel like it much at stake at all. The most...
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Kitchen’s Floor– “Live at Real Bad”
Maybe the most heartbroken and pissed-off very best band in the country world, Kitchen’s Floor are back with (another) live album. They’re hardly flogging a dead horse, tho– where August’s Live in...
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Blanche Blanche Blanche
I love this band because they’re either insane, or half human/half early dial-up internet connection. BlBlBl ricochet back and forth song structures that straddle the innovative and the illogical and...
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Interview: Guy Blackman
Guy Blackman is a dude and a half, whether he’s running the much-loved Chapter Records, playing in one of seven or eight dozen bands or plying his own crazy good brand of chamber pop. I spoke to him a...
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Lou Reed and the Cowbell
I’m writing this at 2am between coughing fits. I reckon Lou Reed wouldn’t have a problem with someone opening his obituary with that, because it might be how he would have started describing a complete...
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Alex Griffin’s Top 10 Albums of 2013
More than any other year prior, music has been a battleground for densely and fiercely fought (and thought) debates over what it all means for society; what our fragmented culture means when we consume...
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Alex Griffin’s Top 10 Albums of 2014
Writer, musician, broadcaster and Renaissance man Alex Griffin counts down his 10 best records of the year. 2014 might be the year that the stream/feed model of perceiving the world became irremediably...
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