Desert Echoes
on November 23, 2011
While their name may give the distinct impression that they’re repeating information back to the listener, Jackalope Saints are doing anything but.
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If Mylo Has Left You Cold: 5 Artists Who Do Coldplay Better than Coldplay
on November 17, 2011
To ease the transition from “derivative” Coldplay into the age of “original” Coldplay, here are five artists doing Chris Martin and company better than Chris Martin and company.
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Los Campesinos! – Hello Sadness
on November 14, 2011
Hello Sadness is at once a comment on aging and a reaction to the dearth of messy punk that is flooding the blogosphere: a quieter, zipper up version of the band, for better and worse.
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Roots Manuva – 4everevolution
on November 8, 2011
Only slightly over an hour, 4everevolution isn’t impossible to absorb, but it’s lack of center or cohesion gives the unneeded impression of heft.
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The Other Man: Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, the Listeners
on November 1, 2011
There’s a reason nobody was talking about the personal implications of a marriage gone wrong within Sonic Youth, and it’s not an isolated problem.
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Charalambides – Exile
on October 20, 2011
Exile works as decent primer: frequent moments of atmospheric beauty, just as many of astounding weirdness, and a smattering of things that fall spectacularly flat.
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Saves the Day – Daybreak
on October 19, 2011
None of the tunes on Daybreak hold muster against any of Saves the Day’s previous efforts, but the band’s constant reinvention of itself is at least interesting.
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Ryan Adams – Ashes and Fire
on October 3, 2011
Instead of expected something groundbreaking, Ryan Adams has made something simple and effective, if broad-stroked and borrowed.
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Blink-182 – Neighborhoods
on September 26, 2011
The band’s sixth studio album is cold, damp and sludgy—the kind of record Blink naysayers have been waiting for.
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The Mark, Tom, Travis and Everybody Else Show
on September 26, 2011
Being a Blink-182 fan is sort of a communion, and the sentiment is not necessarily devoid of religious context.
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Wooden Shjips — West
on September 21, 2011
With the mass of better records out this year from the same area, and in much the same genre, West might be doomed to be another niche cut in San Francisco’s newest big break.
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Laura Marling — A Creature I Don’t Know
on September 16, 2011
Marling, only twenty-one and already touring her third LP, A Creature I Don’t Know, has grown to appreciate the updates of folk that the festival circuit can bring.
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