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Jennifer Kelly
Features
Music
[17.Jun.08] :. The Silver Jews' David Berman recently underwent eye surgery that both physically and metaphorically extended his range of vision. He talks to PopMatters about being able to see farther in so many ways.
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[27.Mar.08] :. Blending the strains of native South American, Latin, African, and psychedelic music, Peruvian chicha music has a trippy, lighthearted vibe all its own. Olivier Conan talks to us about this fascinating genre, his band Chicha Libre, and the syncretism of global music.
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PopMatters @ SXSW 2008
[20.Mar.08] :. Fifty-eight bands and two aching ear canals later, Jennifer Kelly offers up some guiding lights for next year.
PopMatters @ SXSW 2008
Music
[19.Mar.08] :. Kinski guitarist Chris Martin says he'll never be nervous again after the summer's last-minute, arena-sized tour with Tool. His Seattle four-piece may be the only band ever to open for Tool and record a split with Acid Mothers Temple.
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[19.Feb.08] :. Bon Iver's Justin Vernon holed up in the north Wisconsin woods to try to get his life and his music back on track ... and, in the process, almost by accident, made one of this year's most hauntingly beautiful folk-rock albums.
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Reviews
Music
[17.Jul.08] :. Tim Lee's eponymous trio hitches skanky roots rock riffs to paisley underground drones in a more predictable, sentimental take on the psych-country experiments of Dream Syndicate and True West.
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DVDs
[16.Jul.08] :. Johnson is a new breed of television heroine: smart, driven, successful and about three-eighths of an inch away from unlikeable.
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Music
[14.Jul.08] :. Like Will Sheff, The Boy Bathing's David Hurwitz sometimes has to talk double-time to cram all his ideas into lilting pop lines. Still when it works, as it frequently does, the combination of buoyant choruses and lyrical difficulties is like a gymnast sticking a perfect landing.
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Music
[10.Jul.08] :. Melbourne's Skybombers take a ride on the time-honored rock 'n' roll hit mobile ... a fun enough trip through familiar scenery.
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Music
[2.Jul.08] :. Back after assorted lifestyle problems, the Garza brothers crank a slick slab of '70s hard blues rock and southern boogie. Great news if you're looking for a lifeless imitation of Hendrix, Vaughan and Santana.
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PopMatters Pick
 Music
[28.Mar.08] :. Massive three-disc reissue reintroduces the jangle-punk, goofball geniuses of Big Dipper to the world, including all three Homestead releases, and the long lost-in-limbo big label and assorted unreleased tracks.
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 Music
[21.May.07] :. Brooklyn's band of brothers spins dark, sardonic songs about love and life, adorned with orchestral flourishes and aching with romantic desperation... an early bid for album of the year.
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Blog posts
Consuming Consumables
[27.Nov.07] :. Brooding, dark, hopelessly romantic, superlatively rock when it wants to be, and almost baroquely classical when it gets tired of that, this is an album to learn to love, track-by-track,...
Consuming Consumables
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