The Pains Of Being Pure Of Heart: The Echo of Pleasure
Kip Berman’s band The Pains of Being Pure of Heart long name evokes a belief that one is about to invest in emotionally driven…
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LCD Soundsystem: American Dream
If it’s frustrating being a LCD Soundsystem fan, one can only imagine what it’s like being a member of mercurial frontman James Murphy’s electronic…
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Lee Ranaldo: Electric Trim
If you’re a fan of Sonic Youth, you ought to be familiar with the guitarist and prolific musician, Lee Ranaldo. From day one, Ranaldo…
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The War on Drugs: A Deeper Understanding
Time does strange things to the ears of a contemporary music aficionado. What’s in style today inevitably goes out of style only to come…
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Beaches: Second of Spring
I asked a friend of mine if he’d heard the new Beaches album and he hadn’t. I asked, “You know them though right?” “I…
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Freedom Fry: Strange Attraction
It’s always been possible to dance to Freedom Fry’s music, but their new release forces you to dance. The French and American duo’s latest…
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Tera Melos: Trash Generator
There was once upon a time when I’d write about Tera Melos being some mathy band with a voracious appetite for badass guitar licks,…
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Oh Sees: Orc
2016 saw the tireless, multi-monikered California garage rock act Thee Oh Sees release two full-length LPs less than four months apart. When played sequentially,…
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Tobacco: Ripe and Majestic
Man, I love Tobacco –don’t you? No other musician has captured the vibe of ‘sundried soda on the hood of a car’ like Thomas…
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DieAlps!: Our City
When you go to a museum and you look at a piece that puzzles you, you often look to the left of the artwork…
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