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By Rebekah Goode-Peoples & Ryan Peoples
The first track on Soulo’s third album, Sun Valley on Plug Research Records, starts out with intermittent studio chatter, the nuts, bolts and aggravations of recording music, the underbelly of the polished finished product. Gradually the melodic finished layer takes over, growing from chaos into song. And the song “Up [...]
By Alex Brenner
Just in time to coincide with the much anticipated Pavement reunion comes a greatest hits package from Matador Records. I don’t know if I’d call them “hits” but it’s definitely a decent best of compilation. For those of you unfamiliar with Pavement this is a great introduction to the band.
The tracks range from [...]
By Alex Brenner
While most people think of treadmills when they think of OK Go, I think of hooks. This band could always write a great hook like “Get Over It” or “Lately It’s So Quiet”, and while they never seem to be able to settle on a sound of their own, their albums are still [...]
By Alex Brenner
While transferring all of my CD collection over to my new 1.5 TB drive, I noticed that although I consider myself to be well-versed in all that is indie rock/punk, I own a lot of metal. While I know it’s not cool to like metal anymore, I’m talking about some real unknown metal. [...]
By Alex Brenner
It’s hard to be a female singer-songwriter. Usually they fall into three categories for me. You have the quirky Regina Spektor type, the poppy Lisa Loeb type, or the introspective Tift Merritt type. Dawn Landes falls into none of the above.
While her sound is definitely familiar, she really puts a new [...]
By Alex Brenner
While it’s impossible to write about every record that comes out, I found myself reflecting on 2009 as not a great year for music. Looking at the top 10 lists of 2009, I almost wanted it to be 1994 again when people made mind blowing records and alternative was alternative (Crooked Rain, Crooked [...]
By Alex Brenner
Surfer Blood has been getting some well deserved hype lately. From the opening chords of “Floating Vibes,” I have to say believe the hype. It’s about time another band came along and just played some good old fashioned 90’s indie rock. Why you ask? Because listening to a band sing harmonies over bloops [...]
