27 Jan 2015

With great experience comes great passion, which can make for great music. Such is the case for the New Jersey based Spanish punk rock band Bodega Satellite, which formed five years ago in 2010. Their music carries with it the experience of three hard working individuals who know how…

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11 Sep 2014

What happens when the routine, the lights, the sing-alongs all become too much for the pop artist? When Glasgow musician Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit spent the last two songs of a show in Ireland singing in the fetal position, it became the priority of his label to take…

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01 Aug 2014

As an album, ‘Awake’ feels like a breathe of fresh air. The drums and guitar serve to host the subtle arrangements that Tycho brings to the table. This being his first album with a full band, the experience is bound to be fresh. But this album feels more like…

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23 Mar 2014

The consistent glue of this outing is vocalist/guitarist Teri Gender Bender (Bosnian Rainbows, Le Bucherettes) and percussionist/bassist/vocalist Nicole Turley (Swahili Blonde, WEAVE!). Swahili Blonde members Dante White and Laena Geronimo round out the cast of characters, providing bass and extra instrumentation, also on separate songs. Got it? Good. The…

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19 Feb 2014

Taking the sound of the saxophone itself, recorded at a variety of angles, and manipulated to the point where a new sound emerges, Sleepers Work (William Flynn) produced a glowing dream of a track. More of a sci-fi ambient trip than a remix per se, the track serves as…

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14 Dec 2013

It’s all there: syncopated sixteenth notes, the blending of awkward time signatures, low end bass-lines meandering, all set to that bewildered haze that made Flying Lotus a household name. He IS a household name, right? It will always depend on who you ask but Samiyam’s Wish You Were Here…

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12 Nov 2013

“I love the way you take a walk,” Angel sings on Acrobat. Her songs unfold like those walks, which lead you down paths, and circle back through life while you were lost in thought. Angel Olsen’s simple lyrics become pure wordplay, reflecting the rustic, earnest quality of her powerful…

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10 Oct 2013

It’s a hard fact, in this reviewer’s opinion, that listening to anything twice will embed it into your musical memory. Think of any toy commercial, those horribly catchy jingles, and you’ll get what I’m talking about. What we choose to do with this uncanny human ability – to enjoy what we…

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04 Sep 2013

Let yourself be lured in to this ominous landscape, and you might find familiar territory – if you’re a fan of guitar-noodling done right. “They Are Out For Blood” is resplendent with the sound of washed-out retro synthesizers and twangy old guitars driven through fuzzed-out tube amps, and filled with…

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09 Aug 2013

For the seemingly depraved depths to which Thought Forms reach on their bold second album, “Ghost Mountain,” they sore equally high in magnificent swells on songs that seem to breathe life even where there is no air. Having taken five years between albums definitely shows, as the band has carefully constructed…

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