Mark Desrosiers

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Bigmouth Strikes Again: Eight Mistakes that Music Critics Make

[19.Mar.03] :. We rock critics should have leathery skins and sore throbbing eardrums and calloused typing fingers, and we should accept little in return but the possibility of more great new tunes coming our way.

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On Fire Like Old Dry Garbage

[15.Jan.03] :. He was an over-saturated, pungent, weed-choked swamp of words.

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Can You Dig It? Yes I Can!

[6.Nov.02] :. This was a band that thrived despite being jeered and pissed on by critics, hipsters, jazzbos, even its own ex-members.

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Hello Cruel World: Blogs and Tunes One Year Later

[18.Sep.02] :. . . . (S)houldn't we be celebrating our collective vain, ironical stupidity just to bug that humorless sobersides Osama bin Laden and his fellow fanatics?

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A Random Walk Down Pirate Street

[7.Aug.02] :. Indeed, American book pirates of yesteryear are pretty much the same as Asian tape pirates today. The captains of industry hate 'em, but why else do you think damn near every citizen of Jakarta knows the lyrics to Don McLean's 'American Pie'?

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Danielia Cotton: Rare Child

[5.Jun.08] :. My hope is that Cotton will become a reverse Rod Stewart -- starting out bland and commercial and then getting looser, more intuitive, and riskier as her career goes on.

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The Lady Tigra: Please Mr. Boombox

[29.Jan.08] :. Call it Pinkberry music, or call it electroclash: either way, it's great stuff.

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ASG: Win Us Over

[28.Jan.08] :. Simply put: another decent snowboarding soundtrack.

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Hammer No More the Fingers: Hammer No More the Fingers

[25.Jan.08] :. These songs seem like simple alchemy at first, but they do stick with you, kinda like how the Go-Betweens or the Plastic Constellations worked their magic.

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Gnotes: Rhymes and Beats

[9.Jan.08] :. A decent, humane, almost ego-free hip-hop record.

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Federation: Its Whateva

[26.Nov.07] :. A nonstop drunken-master thizz-dance that careens from post-crunk, to R&B Dramamine, to screamo-rock, to gospel, to some scatterbrained hybrid of all these, for eighty short minutes.

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Old Time Relijun: 2012

[27.Oct.05] :. Old Time Relijun are in many ways the anti-White-Stripes, an authentic and healthy alternative to the snake oil that Jack White is selling.

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