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Dan Raper
About Dan Raper
Dan Raper has been writing about music for PopMatters since 2005. Prior to that he did the same thing for his college newspaper and for his school newspaper before that. Of course he also writes fiction, though his only published work is entitled "Gamma-secretase exists on the plasma membrane as an intact complex that accepts substrates and effects intramembrane cleavage". He is currently studying medicine at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Features
Now Hear This!
[17.Apr.08] :. Unlike many of his fellow Brooklynites, whose boundary-pushing is an aesthetic in and of itself, Alan Wilkis has no fear of pop.
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PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2007
[10.Dec.07] :. As electronic music's edges bleed out all over the genre map, some sounds have been resurrected, others minimally revised, but the sum total shows a genre that, diffuse identity or not, continues to exert its pull on rock, pop, and the dancefloor.
PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2007
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[2.May.08] :. The third album from Boston alt-rock musician [munk] feels like a relic from the distant past.
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[28.Apr.08] :. This old-fashioned, newly-polished soul music is pretty much impossible to resist.
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[25.Apr.08] :. K Records has reissued the Microphones' stunning 2001 album, and it's no surprise it still astounds today.
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[24.Apr.08] :. It's difficult to find fault in this excellent sophomore album from Australia's foremost electro/rock crossover act.
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[22.Apr.08] :. This understated and unexpectedly commercial little mix of songs from Jennifer Cardini, the French DJ, provides a bit of variety in Kompakt's catalogue.
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[4.Feb.08] :. Hot Chip's third album offers moments of sparkling pop-dance perfection -- and some unexpectedly emotional material as well.
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[20.Aug.07] :. M.I.A. is back, representing the world town with power.
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[8.Aug.07] :. Okkervil River's new album is filled with moments that remind us again why this band is considered one of the finest indie rock groups in the US.
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[30.May.07] :. Unexpected threads of melody make listening to this math-rock debut an absolute pleasure.
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[27.Apr.07] :. It's the second great Arcade Fire album of the year.
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[18.Apr.07] :. The second album from Montreal post-rock group the Besnard Lakes dazzles with inventiveness and grandeur.
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[18.Jan.07] :. Maher Shalal Hash Baz make folk on the outer edges, but in doing so have also crafted an incredibly powerful statement about music, participation, and emotion.
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[12.Sep.06] :. Record of the year candidate from one of dance-punk's enduring bright spots.
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[24.Aug.06] :. Why is this CD, the debut solo effort from UK group Moloko’s singer, essential? For one, it's one of the best examples of production shaping but not overwhelming the artist’s vision.
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[20.Apr.06] :. Glenn Richards is Australia's tight-packed pop-poet; more poet than pop, certainly, since who else producing music today writes in such contorted but addictive ellipses.
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