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Spoek Mathambo: Father Cr…
Oh, Sub Pop. For one of the best record labels in the world, your fans have pretty closed ...
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The Pines: Dark So Gold
Michael Ondaatje’s Coming Through Slaughter tells a story centered around the life o...
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Bonnie Raitt: Slipstream
Bonnie Raitt is an interesting artist, albeit one I’ve often been critical of. She began r...
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Lee Ranaldo: Between the …
No band in the history of rock has come up with as many consecutive winners as Sonic Youth...
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Foxy Shazam: Church Of Ro…
What do you think of when you hear the name Foxy Shazam? I imagine a magic trick, or maybe...
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The Magnetic Fields: Love…
The Magnetic Fields are a strange band. Fronted by openly gay Stephin Merritt, who holds I...
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The Ting Tings: Sounds fr…
The Ting Tings, comprised of Katie White and Jules De Martino, are one of those bands that...
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Sleigh Bells: Reign of Te…
When Reign of Terror was released to somewhat negative reviews, I didn’t know what to expe...
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Ben Kweller: Go Fly A Kit…
Ben Kweller has made a career out of the easy going Power-Pop. With his puffy cheeks and k...
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Air: La Voyage Dans La Lu…
La Voyage Dans La Lune is French filmmaker Georges Méliès’ classic film, translated in Eng...
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Paul McCartney: Kisses On…
McCartney is a legend. He is clearly one of the greatest pop musicians of all time. It is ...
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Dr. Dog: Be the Void
It’s getting more and more obvious to me that years, musically, are like the Star Trek mov...
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Leonard Cohen: Old Ideas
At 77 years old Leonard Cohen is a masterful elder. He’s been making music for 44 years...
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Lana Del Rey: Born to Die
Well, I chose to give Lana a shot, and she failed me. Too bad, I guess. I stuck up for her...
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Bill Callahan: Apocalypse
Depending on your previous experience with Bill Callahan, his 2011 album Apocalypse might ...
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First Aid Kit: The Lion's…
A couple tracks into First Aid Kit’s The Lion’s Roar, I decided to start my “best of th...
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The Big Pink: Future This
The Big Pink is an English electro-rock duo who have garnered considerable acclaim for ...
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Guided by Voices: Let's G…
Guided by Voices has never had problems coming up with albums that are packed with many sh...
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tUnE-yArDs: w h o k i l l
In 2009, Merrill Garbus (also known as tUnE-yArDs) released her first album,BiRd-BrAiNs. I...
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Cloud Nothings: Attack On…
Dylan Baldi began Cloud Nothings as a low-fi side project. The music was pop-punk oriented...
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The Torn ACLs: Make A Bre…
At first listen The Torn ACLs might not sound like the most impressive band on the radio. ...
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Foster the People Torch G…
In May 2011, Foster the People released their first studio album Torches, which moved soun...
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Magnolia Electric Co.: S/…
This is one of those albums you might purchase for the sole reason of the amazing cover ar...
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Grouplove: Never Trust a …
We’ve all heard the song on the Apple iPod Touch television commercial, you know, the one ...
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Kimya Dawson runs rampant…
Kimya Dawson’s newest album Thunder Thighs goes beyond the Kimya we know and love to disco...
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Travel Through Time With …
Bob Dylan’s latest album Beyond Here Lies Nothin’: The Collection is a collection of the v...
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Amy Winehouse: Lioness: H…
Lioness is not Amy Winehouse's long-lost gem or interrupted follow-up album, nor is it a...
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We Were Promised Jetpacks…
Unrelenting, gut punching in your face rock n' roll. That's what WWPJP offers on their sop...
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Plants and Animals: Parc …
Straight out of Montreal, this trio brings a unique sound into the world. Being their fir...
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EMA: Past Life Martyred S…
EMA: Past Life Martyred Saints (Souterrain Transmissions) Early in the year, I listened...
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Please, Please, Please: A…
Love or hate The Smiths, it’s a testament to their songwriting legacy that the B-side ...
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Trent Reznor & Atticus Ro…
Trailers for David Fincher’s adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo present the vie...
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Foo Fighters: Wasting Lig…
As the curtain opens on Wasting Light it is glaringly clear that his album is deeper in th...
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In Utero Remembered
Most know Nirvana to be the parents of the bastard child that became grunge music. The fus...
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The White Buffalo: Lost &…
There are some artists that you hope stay under the radar whether it be wanting to keep an...
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Crystal Stilts: Radiant D…
Crystal Stilts have always been ahead of the contemporary indie pop learning curve. When...
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The Black Keys: El Camino
It behooves us to take 90 seconds here and figure out how this band got so popular and e...
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Wilco: The Whole Love
Wilco has often been characterized by their expansive and eclectic sounds, bouncing from h...
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Childish Gambino: CAMP
It’s almost impossible to find an angle on Donald Glover that hasn’t already been covered ...
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Luke Cunningham: Heart Pr…
While cutting his teeth on the southern tour circuit with his former band Part Time Heroes...
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A Plea For Purging: The L…
Make no Joke about it this is one heavy album. The songs sound like murders and jackhammer...
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The Smashing Pumpkins: Gi…
I remember reading a desert-island-albums list by Billy Corgan in 1993 that was so scari...
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Various Artists: Boddie R…
Do a quick Google search for 12202 Union Avenue, Cleveland, OH. The top result is a Goog...
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Ty Segall: Singles: 2007-…
"When you play music and you're a person on a stage, sometimes people can put you on a p...
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Naomi Psalm: Stare
Naomi Psalm's album Stare is an outstretched hand, offering an invitation to step out of t...
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Circle Takes the Square: …
Seven years. I have waited seven years to hear another album from the revolutionary post...
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Sigur Rós: Inni
I’ve often let the cool, ambient sounds of “Svefn-g-englar”, the expansive opening track f...
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Blind Pilot: We are the T…
A significant number of bands that record their second studio album run into the problem o...
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A$AP Rocky: LIVELOVEA$AP
A$AP Rocky violated rule number one of the 10 Crack Commandments: Never let no one know ...
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Los Campesinos: Hello Sad…
The U.K. band Los Campesinos! makes an ornery and quotable ruckus of the kind that could...
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Atlas Sound: Parallax
Bradford Cox knows a thing or two about creating a schism between his everyday self and ...
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U2: Achtung Baby [Super D…
"If you give a pop star a shit pile of dough and he refuses to self-destruct, I th...
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Cass McCombs: Humor Risk
Say it quickly, eliding the r's that cap the end of the first word and the beginning of ...
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Coasting: You're Never Go…
The charm of Brooklyn duo Coasting's debut, You're Never Going Back, is largely the same...
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Florence and the Machine:…
Grandiose is not typically a word chosen to describe an artist’s second album but, then ...
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King Midas Sound: Without…
For all its eerie qualities as a work of music, King Midas Sound's Waiting for You was j...
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The Antlers: Burst Apart
When the Antlers released their jaw-dropping 2009 album, Hospice, it stood out from the re...
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Puscifer: Conditions of m…
Maynard James Keenan has proven his versatility as the frontman of Tool and A Perfect Circ...
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Pandr Eyez: Eyes on You E…
Hearing Pandr Eyez for the first time recently on Air France's FACT mix was slightly dis...
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The Decemberists: Long Li…
Colin Meloy can read. This fact should surprise no one who has heard the Decemberists, or ...
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Concerts
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Robben Ford and Jon…
There was another very special concert at the South Coasts hottest new venue, the Carpinteria Plaza Playhouse on March 17th. The sold out show featured guitar legend Robben Ford, collaborati...
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Vans Warped Tour Pr…
Vans Warped Tour 2012 Founder Kevin Lyman Throws Massive Pre Party For Lucky Music Fans at Club Nokia. L. Paul Mann The Vans Warped Tour 2012 was officially unveiled at a huge party, ...
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Buckman Coe @ Jorda…
Making the trek up to the Sunshine Coast on March 10th 2012, Vancouver local, Buckman Coe looked and sounded right at home in the colourfully artsy community. Just a ferry ride away from We...
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A Woodstock Perspec…
This week, it was an unfortunate time to be an editor of an Arts & Entertainment paper in Woodstock. I was busy planning a full feature article with our best staff writer abo...
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Three Albums and To…
This year, some of shoegaze and psychedelic music's biggest names are releasing new albums, and are embarking on lengthy tours. Here are three tours and album releases that brin...
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Music You Should Ch…
Hello, VZ readers. I’ve been listening to a lot of music lately, and I can’t think of much for a full review at the moment. So, here is a Consumer Guide-esque column on some music ...
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An Interview with …
The Dandy Warhols are a veteran band who have given their fans almost 18 years of great music. I frankly reached a bit out of my realm to learn from and about ...
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A Big City Intervi…
“International folk hero” Niall Connolly is hosting the Big City Folk concerts on Wednesday nights at the Irish pub, Ceol, in Brooklyn. An Irish traditional fol...
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Michael Gulezian d…
Michael Gulezian has been referred to as having “jaw-dropping virtuosity,” by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and as being “among the pantheon of greats, includ...
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