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Surround Sound #9: Hodgepodge

[19.Dec.06] :. The latest Surround Sound installment tackles a hodgepodge of kids movies, TV shows, indie flicks, and more.

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Maps: We Can Create

[26.Jul.07] :. Shortlisted for the Mercury Prize, Maps' debut full length is another solid entry into the growing “widescreen sound” oeuvre.

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Montag: Going Places

[24.Jul.07] :. Antoine Bedard's sophisticated electronic compositions provide more than meets the ear.

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Boom Bip: Sacchrilege

[28.Jun.07] :. An ‘80s aesthetic that borders on ironic, and will throw longtime fans for a bit of loop.

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The Locust: New Erections

[26.Jun.07] :. Still going after 12 years, San Diego's most provocative outfit offer their most ambitious record to date.

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Various Artists: Music From And Inspired By Spider-Man 3

[4.Jun.07] :. Featuring exclusive tracks by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Flaming Lips, the Walkmen and the Killers, Spider-Man attempts to court an indie audience.

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Music   Tim Kinsella: Field Recordings of Dreams

Music   Various Artists: Off The Clock Vol. 1: Up And Coming Artists From Starbucks

Music   Stars: Do You Trust Your Friends?

Music   The Narrator: All That To The Wall

Music   Mando Diao: Ode to Ochrasy

Music   Call Me Lightning: Soft Skeletons

Music   Shining: Grindstone

Music   The One AM Radio: This Too Will Pass

Music   Amiina: Seoul

Music   Loney, Dear: Loney, Noir

Music   Acrobat: The Unbelievable Truth

Music   Trans Am: Sex Change

Music   Botch: Unifying Themes Redux

Music   Youth Group: Casino Twilight Dogs

Music   +/-: Lets Build a Fire

Music   Owen: At Home With Owen

Music   Air: Late Night Tales

Music   Born Ruffians: Born Ruffians

Music   My Latest Novel: Wolves

Music   Isis + Aereogramme: In The Fishtank 14

Music   Various Artists: Musics In The Margin

Music   Jeremy Enigk: World Waits

Music   Now It's Overhead: Dark Light Daybreak

Music   The Curtains: Calamity

Music   Brazilian Girls: Talk To La Bomb

Music   Jenny Piccolo: Jenny Piccolo

Music   5ive: Versus

Music   Viva Voce: Get Yr Blood Sucked Out

Music   The Big Eyes Family Players: Do The Musiking

Music   Headlights: Kill Them With Kindness

Music   The Hylozoists: La Fin Du Monde

Music   Hanne Hukkelberg: Do Not As I Do

Music   Think About Life: Think About Life

Music   Bexar Bexar: Tropism

Music   Various Artists: Project: Bicycle

Music   Aleuchatistas: What You Will

Music   Various Artists: Harlan County USA: Songs of the Coal Miner's Struggle

Music   Rye Coalition: Curses

Music   The Love Letter Band: Fear Not My Brothers Fear Not My Sisters, for I Have Seen the Future

Music   Maritime: We, The Vehicles

Music   Matmos: The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of the Beast

Music   The Dan Band: The Dan Band Live

Music   Caroline: Murmurs

Music   The Black Heart Procession: The Spell

Music   Victory at Sea: All Your Things Are Gone

Music   Part Chimp: I Am Come

Music   Built to Spill: You in Reverse

Music   13ghosts: Cicada

Music   Puerto Muerto: Songs of Muerto County

Music   Various Artists: See You on the Moon! Songs for Kids of All Ages

Music   Bound Stems: The Logic of Building the Body Plan

Music   Ester Drang: Rocinate

Music   Corm: Audio Flame Kit

Music   Metal Hearts: Socialize

DVDs    Andrew W.K.: Who Knows? Live In Concert: 2000-2004 [DVD]

Music   Nina Simone: Sings the Blues and others

Music   Ruins: Pallaschtom

Music   Desert City Soundtrack: Perfect Addiction

Music    The Strokes: First Impressions of Earth

Music    Lightning Bolt: Hypermagic Mountain

Music    Embrace Today: We Are the Enemy

Music    Faunts: High Expectations/Low Results

Music    Make Believe: Shock of Being

Music    Holy Fuck: Holy Fuck

Music    Phosphorescent: Aw Come Aw Wry

Music    Mi and L'au: Mi and L'au

Music    31Knots: Talk Like Blood

Music    The Narrator: Such Triumph

Music    The Life and Times: Suburban Hymns

Music    Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Summer in the Southeast

Music    Some Girls: The DNA Will Have Its Say

Music    Nina Simone: The Soul of Nina Simone

Music    M83: M83

Music    Animal Collective: Feels

Music    Charlottefield: How Long Are You Staying

Music    Motion City Soundtrack: Commit This to Memory

Music    400 Blows: Angel's Trumpets and Devil's Trombones

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Hanne Hukkelberg: Little Things

[2.Sep.05] :. Hanne Hukkelberg's debut album heralds her arrival as a major new talent.

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Music    Minotaur Shock: Maritime

Music    Various Artists: 80 Records and We're Not Broke (Yet)

Music    Above This Fire: In Perspective

Music    Settlefish: The Plural of the Choir

Music    Need New Body: Where's Black Ben?

Music    Youth Group: Skeleton Jar

Music    Shipping News: Flies the Fields

Music    Darediablo: Twenty Paces

Music    Franklin Delano: Like a Smoking Gun in Front of Me

Music    Ruins: Vrresto [remastered]

Music    Cartel: The Ransom EP

Music    Shout Out Louds: Howl Howl Gaff Gaff

Music    Various Artists: Bonnaroo Music Festival 2004

Music    Summer at Shatter Creek: All the Answers

DVDs   Around the Bend (2004)

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The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower: Love in the Fascist Brothel

[24.May.05] :. San Diego post-punkers redefine the meaning of the word 'full-length' with a 24-minute long player that swaggers, swoons, stomps, and spits its way into becoming one of the finest pieces of hardcore fury you're likely to hear this year.

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DVDs   Volcano High (2001)

Music    Tim Kinsella: Crucifix Swastika

Music    Blue Merle: Burning in the Sun

DVDs   Dolls (2002)

DVDs   6ixtynin9 (Ruang talok 69) (1999)

Music    Point Line Plane: Smoke Signals

Music    The Black Maria: Lead Us to Reason

Music    Bars: Introducing...

DVDs   I Am a Promise (1993)

Music    Red Eyed Legends: Mutual Insignificance

Music    Jesu: Jesu

Music    The Flesh: The Flesh

Music    Hanalei: We Are All Natural Disasters

DVDs   Nine Good Teeth (2003)

Music    ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead: Worlds Apart

DVDs   A New Kind of Love (1963)

Music    Anadivine: Zoo

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Headlights: The Enemies EP

[27.Jan.05] :. Ex-Absinthe Blind and Maserati members paint their indie rock in black, and their debut is one of the most exciting and breathless releases of the past year.

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DVDs   Wetherby (1985)

Music    Elevator Division: Years

DVDs   The Girl From Paris (2001)

Music    S: Puking and Crying

Music    Call Me Lightning: The Trouble We're In

DVDs   How to Steal a Million (1966)

DVDs    Various Artists: Homesick Vol. 1 [DVD]

Music    The Break: Handbook for the Hopeless

Music    Reeve Oliver: self-titled

DVDs   The Clearing (2004)

Music    Amanda Woodward: La Decadence de la Decadence

DVDs   The Hebrew Hammer (2003)

DVDs    Ray Charles: Live in Concert with the Edmonton Symphony [DVD]

Music    Endicott: The Words in Ink Don't Lie

Music    Various Artists: Song of the Silent Land

DVDs   Mulholland Falls (1996)

Music    Scatter the Ashes: Devout/The Modern Hymn

DVDs   Walking Tall (2004)

Music    Son, Ambulance: Key

Music    Action Action: Don't Cut Your Fabric to This Year's Fashion

Music    Free Moral Agents: Everybody's Favorite Weapon

Music    NormanOak: Born a Black Diamond

Music    Horns of Happiness: A Sea As a Shore

Music    Timewellspent: self-titled

Music    Time in Malta: Alone With the Alone

Music    Down to Earth Approach: Another Intervention

Music    The Six Parts Seven: [Everywhere][And Right Here]

DVDs   The Road to Memphis / Godfathers and Sons / Red, White & Blues - PopMatters Music Review )

Music    Eighteen Visions: Obsession

Music    Pink Grease: This Is for Real

Music    Tara Jane O'Neil: You Sound, Reflect

Music    Ray Charles: Genius Loves Company

Music    Clair De Lune: Marionettes

Music    Gorge Trio: Open Mouth, O Wisp

Music    Black Cat Music: October, November

Music    Rhythm of Black Lines: Human Hand, Animal Band

Music    The One AM Radio: A Name Writ in Water

Music    Atom and His Package: Hair: Debatable

Music    Puerto Muerto: See You in Hell

Music    Rob Crow: My Room Is a Mess

Music    Kill Me Tomorrow: The Garbageman and the Prostitute

Music    Eszter Balint: Mud

Music    Devendra Banhart: Rejoicing in the Hands

Music    The Beautiful Mistake: This Is Who You Are

Music    The Red Eyed Legends: The High I Feel When I'm Low

DVDs    Nat King Cole: Soundies and Telescriptions [DVD]

Music    Mötley Crüe: The Best of Mötley Crüe (20th Century Masters: Millennium Collecti

Music    Decahedron: Disconnection Imminent

Music    Haymarket Riot: Mog

Music    The Standard: Wire Post to Wire

Music    Elf Power: Walking with the Beggar Boys

DVDs    The Dead Kennedys: In God We Trust, Inc. - The Lost Tapes [DVD]

Music    Desert City Soundtrack: Funeral Car

Music    From Ashes Rise: Nightmares

DVDs    Abba: Gold [DVD]

Music    Young People: War Prayers

DVDs    The Black Heart Procession: Tropics of Love [DVD]

Music    Soiled Doves: Soiled Life

Music    The Six Parts Seven: Lost Notes from Forgotten Songs

Music    Arab on Radar: Queen Hygiene II / Rough Day at the Orifice

DVDs    Various Artists: 270 Miles from Graceland: Live from Bonnaroo 2003 [DVD]

Music    Darediablo: Feeding Frenzy

Music    Sunshine: Necromance

Music    The Bloodthirsty Lovers: self-titled

Music    Small Brown Bike: The River Bed

Music    The Three 4 Tens: Taking Northern Liberties

Music    Kid Dynamite: Cheap Shots, Youth Anthems

Music    Glasseater: Everything is Beautiful When You Don't Look Down

Music    Fun Lovin' Criminals: Welcome to Poppy's

Music    Do Make Say Think: Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn

Music    The Pleased: Don't Make Things

Music    Ghosts & Vodka: Addicts and Drunks

Music   Portastatic: Autumn Was a Lark

Music    The Lucksmiths: A Little Distraction

Music    The Fire Theft: self-titled

Music    The Forms: Icarus

Music    The Buttless Chaps: Love This Time

DVDs   The Big Town (1987)

Music    Chromatics: Plaster Hounds

Music    Guns 'N Roses: Welcome to the Videos [DVD]

Music    Thunderbirds Are Now!: Justamustache

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Short Cuts - In Theaters: Black Snake Moan

[21.Feb.07] :. In much the same way he mined hip-hop culture for his acclaimed debut Hustle & Flow, writer/director Craig Brewer turns his attention to the blues for his equally musical sophomore effort...

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Short Cuts - In Theaters: Little Miss Sunshine

[8.Aug.06] :. On paper, Little Miss Sunshine plays like a joke with a punch line no one wants to hear. What do you get when you take a failed inspirational speaker, a suicidal Proust scholar, a heroin...

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Short Cuts - In Theaters: Edmund

[1.Aug.06] :. The early press on Edmond has focused largely on the screenplay’s racial and violent content, but very little on its actual themes. Scripted by David Mamet and based on his 1982 play...

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