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Sometimes a record’s appeal is more about a mood or an overall sound than any specific elements. The last two records from The War on Drugs (Lost In
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Look, I have no space left in my iTunes for another “Beach” group. Beach House, Dirty Beaches, Beach Fossils, Nude Beach — when is this going to stop?
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These Chicago lads—and by lads I mean just that: tight-knit hanging with attitude—make a certain sound that belies their young age. Although initially on hearing “In the Morning
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Even in England, famous for its eccentrics, nutters and rabble-rousers, Julian Cope stands out. After establishing his neo-psychedelia bona fides with short-lived group The Teardrop Explodes, chasing the
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I’m so jazzed that one of the 2015 releases I’ve been especially looking forward to is now in sight: Lower Dens‘ third album, Escape from Evil. The Baltimore
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Dan Deacon is a highly prolific and relentlessly energetic creator/performer of electronic music. He started releasing records as a college student in 2003 and has since accumulated an
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Indie-rock guitar hero John Reis has had his hand in so many projects over the last two decades — most recently, last year’s returns of post-hardcore innovators Drive
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Let’s talk about John Hughes movies. I used to have a theory that straight chicks of a certain age and indie-leaning disposition would always go to bat for
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That was a close one. For a second, I thought we might have lost The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle to the world of literary fiction with last year’s
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I have a list of “artists to learn about”, and Obnox has been at the top of it since the summer. I encountered his single “Sit Yo Ass
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