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The Maxines: Drugstore EP

The Maxines: Drugstore EP

The Maxines Drugstore EP will remind you why baby-you had a crush on rock ‘n’ roll in the first place.

December 7th, 2011 | Posted in Music Reviews | Read More »

Bill Callahan: Apocalypse

Bill Callahan: Apocalypse

It’s no rock opera, no concept album. But each track gives the impression of a story, a feeling, and each subsequent track feels like an extension or modulation on that feeling.

October 24th, 2011 | Posted in Music Reviews | Read More »

Clearlake: Cedars

Clearlake: Cedars

Clearlake’s Cedars, opens with a sweet, chugging guitar-driven number (“Almost the Same”) that conjures up visions of Duckie from Pretty in Pink. From 2003.

August 8th, 2011 | Posted in Music Reviews | Read More »

Twin-Peaks-Black-Metal, Mount Eerie’s New Native Genre

Twin-Peaks-Black-Metal, Mount Eerie’s New Native Genre

Tom De Beauchamp reminds you that Phil Elverum reminded you (two years ago!) of the natural world’s warm and haunting vigor. Mount Eerie, Wind’s Poem in review.

July 18th, 2011 | Posted in Music Reviews | Read More »

Burial: Street Halo

Burial: Street Halo

You’re in the back of a van with your hands bound and a hood pulled over your head. Light slips in, muted through the rough weave, leaving impressions of..

June 10th, 2011 | Posted in Music Reviews | Read More »

Gold Panda with Dam Mantle, Graintable

Gold Panda with Dam Mantle, Graintable

Dudes with laptops never had it so good. Ben Wills reviews a live performance by Gold Panda, Dam Mantle and Graintable at Rotture in Portland, OR.

April 25th, 2011 | Posted in Music Reviews | Read More »

Little Wings Album Release with White Rainbow and Michael Hurley

Little Wings Album Release with White Rainbow and Michael Hurley

Little Wings’ Black Grass album release tour kicks off in Portland with disparate acts White Rainbow and Michael Hurley. Check out a review of the show here.

March 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Music Reviews | Read More »

The “Raga/Folk/Drone Axis” of Ilyas Ahmed

The “Raga/Folk/Drone Axis” of Ilyas Ahmed

Tom DeBeauchamp reverse-engineers the narratives of Ilyas Ahmed’s first two avant-folk masterpieces. Smalldoggies Magazine albums in review.

January 15th, 2011 | Posted in Music Reviews | Read More »

Oblio: Principle of Discovery

Oblio: Principle of Discovery

Benjamin Wills revives an old Italo-disco album, Principle of Discovery by Oblio, and talks us through the finer points.

September 12th, 2010 | Posted in Music Reviews | Read More »

The Libertines: Up the Bracket

The Libertines: Up the Bracket

In “I Get Along,” a song from The Libertines’ Up the Bracket, the lead vocalist spits out a drunken “fuck ‘em.” And then other stuff happens. From 2003.

August 25th, 2010 | Posted in Music Reviews | Read More »

Grandaddy: Sumday

Grandaddy: Sumday

With Sumday, Grandaddy moves back and forth between stories set in the digital realm, and stories of sadness in the human landscape. From 2003.

August 25th, 2010 | Posted in Music Reviews | Read More »

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