Monthly Archive:: October 2014
reissue
On December 2, to celebrate the band’s 30th anniversary, Matador Records will release Extra Painful, a deluxe reissue of the 1993 Yo La Tengo album Painful. Painful was the band’s sixth
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Pollard
Here’s where we highlight our favorite song titles from the fantastic and prolific Robert Pollard. A new one every weekday! “Sir Garlic Breath” closes side one of Guided
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new music
30 years after the formation of Screaming Trees, the mighty Mark Lanegan has just released his ninth solo album, Phantom Radio. Lanegan’s growling, irascible voice seems barely changed
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new music
Maybe it’s because I’m sitting in a coffeehouse smack-dab in the middle of an ivy-town collegiate setting and they’re streaming my youth over the sound speaker (ahhh: Simple
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new music
Here’s a new feature where we highlight our favorite song titles from the fantastic and prolific Robert Pollard. A new one every weekday! Lifeguards is Robert Pollard and
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video
Don’t think too hard, just enjoy this new video and song from Perth’s finest rock band Pond. Their new record Man It Feels Like Space Again comes out
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new music
Line & Circle pretty much has it all for a guy like me. First off, like me, they’re from Ohio. Secondly, they relocated to Los Angeles, just like
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Pollard
Here’s a new feature where we highlight our favorite song titles from the fantastic and prolific Robert Pollard. A new one every weekday! “Everywhere With Helicopter” is on
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new music
One of the going theories on the prevalence of love songs in popular music has to do with the sheer lousiness of language. The word “love” just kinda
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new music
Isn’t it time you left this world today? Jane Weaver fires up the rocketship on “The Electric Mountain,” laying sunny vocals and sci-fi tones atop a repetitive two-chord
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