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Tuesday, April 27 2010

Cars & Trains: The Roots, The Leaves

Sounding like a mixture between indie darlings Sufjan Stevens and Why?, Cars & Trains creates a lush and textured environment full of idiosyncratic lyrics and a sense of melancholia that charms its way into your life.


Friday, March 12 2010

Josiah Wolf: Jet Lag

Why? drummer goes solo, lays his broken heart on the line, and bores us to tears.


Tuesday, October 20 2009

Why?: 26 September 2009 - New York

Yoni Wolf entertained by dancing oddly about the stage and at times speaking to the audience about random things, things which perhaps only Wolf himself fully understood.


Monday, August 3 2009

Themselves: theFREEhoudini

"Party Rap Sucks", goes the title of one track here, but if anything this sounds like a wholly celebratory record.


Sunday, March 23 2008

Presidents of the United States of America, Fern Knight, Ssion…


Friday, March 14 2008

PHOTOS: SXSW Music Day 1

Pics from the event at Emo's including The Wedding Present, Why?, The Mae Shi and YACHT.


Wednesday, March 12 2008

Why?: Alopecia

If Elephant Eyelash is Why?'s most upbeat work, Alopecia is its evil twin; dark, disillusioned and unrelenting, it serves as the messy breakup to Elephant Eyelash's honeymoon.


Thursday, October 6 2005

Why?: Elephant Eyelash

With so many references to semen, suicide, and jerking off, how could this be anything but one of the best records of the year?"


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