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Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Music Review

Posted on09. Sep, 2009 by Administrator.

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Although Phoenix’s brand of indie rock is only “indie” in the most contemporary sense—all clean guitar jangle, dance beat and polished pop hook—there’s something about the band’s unrelenting energy and Thomas Mars’ playful and French-accented vocals that should win over even the most critical listener. When album opener “Lisztomania” kicks off with its manically plucked [...]

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Green Day , 21st Century Breakdown - Music Review

Posted on09. Sep, 2009 by Administrator.

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With 21st Century Breakdown, Green Day has fully transformed into the kind of rock band that used to draw hordes of pimpled teens to stadiums during the height of album-oriented rock. Apparently American Idiot wasn’t just a one-off experiment with a more progressive sound, it was a permanent re-shaping of Green Day’s sound for the [...]

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Lindstrom & Prins Thomas, Lindstrom & Prins Thomas II - Music Review

Posted on08. Sep, 2009 by Administrator.

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An instrumental cosmic odyssey like no other. A bit like Pink Floyd and Tangerine Dream teaming together for the soundtrack of your best science fiction dream. Alternately driving and wandering, it’s a jam-out that moves effortlessly from synthesizer to bongos while the band works out your journey to another dimension. Jazz for the year 2094. [...]

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Pink Mountaintops, Outside Love - Music Review

Posted on08. Sep, 2009 by Administrator.

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This album is psych-folk at its finest; haunting male/female vocals layered over a densely packed wall of guitars, strings, and other ethereal bits of instrumentation. The majority of the songs are also serious exercises in lethargy, plodding along warmly like the longest days of summer, allowing only those with patience to be fully rewarded. The [...]

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Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse (with photos by David Lynch), Dark Night Of The Soul - Music Review

Posted on08. Sep, 2009 by Administrator.

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Dark Night Of The SoulDark Night Of The Soul is a collaboration between Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse (Mark Linkous) and a number of top-notch guest vocalists and, amazingly, features a book collection of original David Lynch photographs apparently inspired by and related to the music. With Iggy Pop, James Mercer of the Shins, Julian Casablancas of [...]

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Death…for the Whole World to See - Cult Pick - Music Review

Posted on08. Sep, 2009 by Administrator.

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Death…for the Whole World to See Death was punk before there was punk, when “punk” was just prison slang for the new and soon-to-be abused inmate. You could even argue that Death invented the sound that would be associated with punk towards the end of the 70s. In the early half of that decade these [...]

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Natureboy - Internet Darling - Music Review

Posted on08. Sep, 2009 by Administrator.

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Natureboy—the musical project of Sara Kermanshahi—is laced with the kind of bittersweet instrumentation and longing vocals that could grip even the most detached listeners. The songs merge atmospheric compositions with gently strummed guitar melodies and transcendent vocals that hover ever-so-slightly over the instrumentation. “Famous Sons” opens with a poignant guitar part and Sara’s equally sublime [...]

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On the Firing Range with Gunfight

Posted on22. Jun, 2009 by Administrator.

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by Devoe Yates With their own special brand of beer-soaked post-country jams, Gunfight! has carved out a unique niche in the current realm of indie music. Hailing from Brooklyn, the fourtet has recently risen to the forefront of the underground New York music scene with their wailing heart wrenching tunes about the painful proddings of [...]

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Dan Deacon, the Band? - Music Profile

Posted on20. Apr, 2009 by Administrator.

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words by Bill Dvorak Dan Deacon, the four-eyed mad scientist behind 2007’s electronic noise-pop sensation, Spiderman of the Rings, might be going acoustic soon. “I kind of want to start writing with less computer and less electronics, and more writing for acoustic instruments,” he told h over the phone from his hometown of Baltimore. For [...]

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Vampire Hands, Me & You Cherry Red / Cuz It’s Beach Funeral - Music Review

Posted on19. Apr, 2009 by Administrator.

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When this album begins, you might think you’re dipping into familiar fuzzy experimental rock territory from yet another striving local band, but soon, my friend, about halfway through the first song perhaps, you’ll find that there’s something else going on. A bit psychedelic, and most of all playful and sincere in its rocking, their tunage [...]

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