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Album Review: Guided By Voices – Motivational Jumpsuit
Robert Pollard and Guided by Voices have released so many songs that the quality of their music is often overshadowed by its quantity — a song library that quintuples that of The Beatles. Pollard has...
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Album Review: Duo de Twang – Four Foot Shack
Primus mastermind Les Claypool never rests. There’s always a tour, or a guest appearance, or a new side project on tap. His downtime is spent authoring books or writing screenplays. And there’s also...
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Top Songs of the Week (2/21)
In the music world, transformation is frequently a difficult concept to understand. Fans want to hold on to a specific conception of an artist or song that reflects a special time in their lives, and...
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Top 10 Songs of the Week (2/28)
We didn’t have to go very far to put together this week’s countdown. In fact, we never have to go anywhere. We just sit and the songs come to us. That’s the brilliant part about the Internet that so...
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Album Review: Damaged Bug – Hubba Bubba
Thee Oh Sees have a new record called Drop coming out in April, but John Dwyer has insisted that its release will be followed by a hiatus for the band. It’s ostensibly so Dwyer can get situated in his...
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Top 10 Songs of the Week (3/7)
We live for comfort. Sometimes, that means taking a backseat and watching the world transform before our eyes. At other times, we learn from what we see and transform into something jarring and new....
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Album Review: Kimono Kult – Hiding in the Light EP
To call Kimono Kult a supergroup is misleading. Billed as a sextet featuring ex-Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López and ex-Chili Pepper John Frusciante, the project is actually the spawn of...
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Top 10 Songs of the Week (3/14)
As a result of 97 percent of the music industry being busy with SXSW, this week has been lacking in big-deal singles. Hell, the biggest one, Jay Z and Daft Punk’s “Computerized”, is an unreleased demo....
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Top 10 Songs of the Week (3/21)
We all get something different out of the music we consume. Some listen for entertainment, while others put on a record for emotional and mental stimulation. There are even those strange few who don’t...
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Album Review: Wolfmother – New Crown
It doesn’t take a marketing guru to understand why Andrew Stockdale revived the Wolfmother moniker and slapped it on the cover of his new album, New Crown. The passing music fan probably won’t...
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Top 10 Songs of the Week (3/28)
Dreaming is bittersweet. When you’re unconscious and fantastically wandering, the potential for wondrous adventure is limitless. But, when you wake up, memories often quickly fade, the vastness...
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Dissected: The Hold Steady
Welcome to Dissected, where we disassemble a band’s catalog in the abstract. It’s exact science by way of a few beers. The Hold Steady may only have six albums, but dissecting their discography proved...
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