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Anthem Recommends: the Crêpes, "What Else?"
- Ever since the soothing, spacey, and always irresistibly bouncy Balearic disco jams of Sweden's Studio hit our ear drums a few years back (remember wh...
07/27/09 - 1 comment
On Track: the Vaselines
- A couple EP's and one LP does not normally make a band's reputation, but in the case of the Vaselines, it was more than enough. The Glasgow duo is abo...
05/11/09 - 0 comments
Arthur Russell's Pop and Country Efforts Coming Out on Audika Records
- It's often said, but certainly worth affirming once again: Arthur Russell was a musical genius who died an untimely death from AIDS in 1992, a mere fo...
10/24/08 - 1 comment
Rockabilly Russians Hit the East Village
- A big man in a shiny, silver zebra suit is singing with a Russian rockabilly accent and playing smoking guitar licks. The bass player is rocking out o...
10/20/08 - 5 comments
Q&A with Shugo Tokumaru
- Shugo Tokumaru sprung onto the pop music scene in 2004 with the critically-acclaimed yet unfortunately under-exposed Night Piece LP (Music Related). R...
08/21/08 - 155 comments
Golden Animals
- Tommy Eisner, clad in a paisley V-neck top, black trousers, and penny loafers, leans back against a railing close to a DSW outside the Knitting Factor...
07/09/08 - 0 comments
White Hinterland
- Casey Daniel released a solo album when she was just 19, but her life in music goes back even farther than that. "Honestly I have more memories playi...
06/23/08 - 13 comments
Metabolismus
- New York City's The Social Registry has a nice selection of releases coming out this holiday season -- perfect for the unorthodox nephew, uncle, or in...
11/19/07 - 1 comment
Never Forget: The lovely Feist on scavenger hunts, heart balloons and the Church of Me
- She’s one talented head on the amorphous hydra known as Broken Social Scene. She turned the Bee Gees’ disco hit “Love You Inside Out” into a p...
02/28/07 - 0 comments
