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Matthew Fiander
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[18.Apr.08] :. Their first album, Psychocandy, was a classic. And as new reissues of the Jesus and Mary Chain's first five records are released, we see the story of a band proving there is life after a masterpiece.
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[4.Mar.08] :. Jim White is changing the face of democracy, or at least taking the drunken poet approach to things. White talks to PopMatters about his new record, Transnormal Skiperoo.
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[1.Aug.07] :. Rising up from under the mega-strip mall concrete, Raleigh, NC's Bowerbirds are the best folk act you haven't heard yet.
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[11.Jun.07] :. Matthew Fiander rediscovers the Scud Mountain Boys with his own move south, and realizes that stories are rightfully entangled in their settings.
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[25.Jul.08] :. Nothing in his records would make you think Jandek could be a passable live performer, let alone a solid one that can even arrest you at times.
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[24.Jul.08] :. The full-band numbers here are so much better than the slow more lonesome work, one wonders why Faun Fables don't just commit to their fuller sound.
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[23.Jul.08] :. Jaguar Love EP is terribly brief, and imperfect, but two good songs out of three ain't bad.
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[22.Jul.08] :. Little details disturb the normality of these stories: chairs have three legs; a homeless man becomes guardian over an entire forest.
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[22.Jul.08] :. This is outside music, music to be set on a porch and blasted into the expanse of land around it, music that cannot be contained.
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[21.Jan.08] :. In the Future is an expansive statement of an album, full of big guitars and cold space, a variety of sounds and a hard-earned and ever-present brilliance.
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[10.Dec.07] :. The Big Doe Rehab should come out now, as a year of solid hip-hop winds down and Ghostface asks where the culture is at.
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[5.Dec.07] :. With this brilliant book, Shepard has established himself as modern fiction's master of voice.
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[15.Oct.07] :. Put all the marketing talk aside, because what's going on musically on In Rainbows is the best we've seen from Radiohead in quite some time.
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[24.Jul.07] :. Full of murky and beautiful songs, this should be the album John Vanderslice is remembered for.
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[5.Jun.07] :. Tony Dekkar has hit his stride with Ongiara, using the right combination of elements from the band’s earlier work to craft not only their best, but one of the best of ‘07.
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[17.Apr.07] :. A stunning late-career album from the country legend -- free of gimmick, chock full of guests that add to the record's authenticity
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Consuming Consumables
[2.Dec.07] :. A stunning late-career album from the country legend -- free of gimmick, chock full of guests that add to the record's authenticity. What might seem like something commemorative, a re-recorded...
Consuming Consumables
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