Devon Powers

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Inouk: No Danger

[4.Oct.04] :. The ground is shaking. Or the waters are troubled, the sky is falling, and there's something menacing afoot. There's no map or compass that can save us now, no sixth sense or sharpened intuition that...

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The Eternals: Rawar Style

[30.Jul.04] :. There's something makeshift about the Eternals. Their songs erupt like a game of pick-up baseball on an empty street where nobody's got a mitt, the ball is a ragged thing, a chewtoy stolen from a...

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The Fever: Red Bedroom

[25.Jun.04] :. Geremy Jasper's singing is temperamental and bratty, hurled out like insults from the mouth of a sassy adolescent. Overtop the catapults and javelins of his band's instrumentalists -- pogoing drum...

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The Coral: Magic and Medicine / Nightfreak and the Sons of Becker

[10.May.04] :. When it comes to new music, we rock critics are not unlike 15-year- old straight boys who have finally pilfered a copy of Jugs from the local five and dime. Bluntly put, we are quick to blow...

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Snow Patrol: Final Straw

[20.Apr.04] :. One of the reasons we listen to music is because it provides a vehicle for expressing feelings that would otherwise go unexpressed. Rage, passion, fear, anxiety: the screeches and flows, beats and...

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Music Goapele: Even Closer

Music Phantom Planet: self-titled

Music The Hiss: Panic Movement

Music Sondre Lerche: Two Way Monologue

Music Liars: They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Music Starsailor: Silence Is Easy

Music My Favorite: The Happiest Days of Our Lives

Music Howie Day: Stop All the World Now

Music Paloalto: Heroes and Villains

Music The Decemberists: Her Majesty the Decemberists

Music Pulp: Hits

Music The Clientele: The Violet Hour

Music Lupine Howl: The Bar at the End of the World

Music Thicke: A Beautiful World

Music Coin Op: Friendly Fire

Music Stars: Heart

Music Northern State: Dying in Stereo

Music Howie Day: The Madrigals EP

Music Bitter, Bitter Weeks: self-titled

Music Blur: Think Tank

Music The Fruit Bats: Mouthfuls

Music The Postal Service: Give Up

Music The Sound: Jeopardy

Music The Raveonettes: Whip It On

Music John Doe: Dim Stars, Bright Sky

Music Gary Wilson: Forgotten Lovers

Music The Music: self-titled

Music Richard Ashcroft: Human Conditions

Music The Coral: self-titled

Music Elvis Costello & The Imposters: Cruel Smile

Music Erase Errata: At Crystal Palace

Music Badly Drawn Boy: Have You Fed the Fish?

Music The Shining: True Skies

Music Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights

Music Soviet: We Are Eyes, We Are Builders

Music Mull Historical Society: Loss

Music The Psychedelic Furs: The Psychedelic Furs / Talk Talk Talk / Forever Now

Music Electric Soft Parade: Holes in the Wall

Music Various Artists: Pure 90's

Music Denali: self-titled

Music Mariah Carey: Greatest Hits

Music Lasse Lindh: You Wake Up at Sea Tac

Music Richard Hell: Time

Film National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)

Music Haven: Between the Senses

Film Trembling Before G-d (2001) - PopMatters Film Review )

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Radiohead: Kid A

Kid A forces its patrons to submerge themselves into the wiles of noise, to work for melody and signifieds, to seek within and find something that wants, needs, and is able to understand.

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