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The recent swell of interest in “Americana” music has proven to be a really interesting and exciting development within the context of pop music because it has signaled a shift in values. Once again, the vacuous nature of the North American Top 40 pop tart...

Sunday, 03 July 2011
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The last few years have been both good and strange for Matt Good. Since the release of Avalanche in 2003, the singer's manner has seemed to cool off and become more reflective; no longer hissing about “turning shit into solid gold” through clenched...

Saturday, 02 July 2011
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Over the last few years, Motorhead singer/bassist Lemmy Kilmister has seemed to have held a vested interest in playing against his image as a black leather-clad, snarling, hard-rocking beast and showing a lighter, campier and loveable side. Making cameo appearances in...

Thursday, 30 June 2011
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Arightcha bum-rushin', no account junkies,Yeahyeahyeah, I know I'm late gettin' you yer fix, but I was laid up. Some junkie jumped me inna alley down on Avenue B witta knife an' laid me up fer a coupla days. Mangy bastid won' be doin' 'at...

Thursday, 30 June 2011
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Now twelve years after breaking away from Thrush Hermit and striking out on his own, there's no arguing that Joel Plaskett has established himself as one of the best songwriters in Canada. Since 1999, the singer has successfully managed to translate the small...

Thursday, 30 June 2011
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Easthampton, MA – The Chicago rock band Wilco release their eighth studio album – The Whole Love – on September 27 through their newly launched dBpm Records. It follows the band’s 2009 Grammy-nominated Wilco (The Album) and was recorded at the...

Wednesday, 29 June 2011
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It's been a while (about ten years – give or take) since trance-y, ambient electronic music and trip hop really commanded much of a presence in the mainstream (the late greats of the explosion that happened in the Nineties included Propellerheads, Sneaker...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
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Last Sunday night, Brooklyn’s North Side Music Festival featured an appearance by YACHT at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. Blog readers were out in droves, as the nautically acronym-ed group from my beloved Pacific Northwest did their best to look and feel like a...

Monday, 27 June 2011
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Is there still time for Limp Bizkit to reclaim old glories? As of right now, it has been six years since Fred Durst and company released a new album (Results May Vary was the last one, if you missed it), but about ten since the band blew so hard with Chocolate Starfish...

Sunday, 26 June 2011
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'Ey youse,Awright, so, this week, we're gonna go whole hog on gettin' ya some free SWAG cuz half the world ain't workin'. I dunno if ya heard, but there's a mail strike goin' on in Canada, annat means'at ol' fi'dollar Billy's...

Thursday, 23 June 2011
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