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Sentimentalist Magazine’s 2007 Staff Picks… The Year’s Best
Madeline Virbasius-Walsh (Editor):
PJ Harvey - White Chalk
Blonde Redhead - 23
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
Interpol - Our Love to Admire
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
Babyshambles - Shotter’s Nation
Carrie Alison (Asst. Editor):
1. Albert Hammond, Jr. [...]
Kills to Detonate a ‘Midnight Boom’ in March ‘08
The Kills like it sexy. They like it dark. But imagine the surprise to critics when press copies of Midnight Boom began arriving on our desks just weeks ago containing a song called “Cheap and Cheerful,” and then imagine further if you will, that upon listening to the entire newie, realizing that yes, indeed, [...]
The Bravery, Bowery Ballroom NYC 12.17.07: Sentimentalist Magazine Live Review
I love this time of year, and I love it even more when radio station K-Rock puts on their annual shenanigans. They always know how to do Christmas right. Seeing that this packed room of K-Rock employees and overzealous fans rushed to the front lines to see The Bravery take the stage at this homecoming [...]
Attention New Year’s Eve 12 Hour Party People: Are you ready?!
Is it wrong to put our hands in the air and say, “Ain’t No Pahty like a Crashin’ In Pahty’? Probably. So we’ll keep our cool, and with much excitement tell you about the fantastic New Year’s Eve shindig Crashin’ In has put together for you party animals! We’re talking guest DJ sets by Sune Rose [...]
Von Bondies to Release New Album and Tour in 2008
There isn’t much in the way of concrete details for the Von Bondies’ follow-up to 2004’s Pawn Shoppe Heart, but what is known is that the new album will be called Love, Hate, and Then There’s You, and is due for release in Summer 2008. Tracklisting and record label is TBA. Lead Von Bondie [...]
Switches to Release Debut in March, Tour with The Bravery
These Brits, known as Switches, have almost more pop swagger than audiences can handle, creating giddy fan mayhem wherever they go. Their debut album, Lay Down The Law, coming out on the venerable Interscope label on March 18th, 2008, is perfectly timed to coincide with a US national tour, kicking off in January with [...]
Annuals - “Frelen Mas EP” : Sentimentalist Magazine Review
Whatever ‘Frelen Mas’ means, these eight tracks could have easily been tacked on for a double-disc, Be He Me proper. If only fresh indies-to-watch were so ambitious. Opener “Nah Keseyi” – another title oddity, said to mean only something to singer Adam Baker – fits the debut’s quiet-and-playful-gone-feverish mode with tribal, vocal overdubs and [...]
New Franz Lyrics Surface?
Glaswegian lit-rockers Franz Ferdinand haven’t been in the news for a while, but in their official fan magazine, they’ve just let a wee cat out of the bag in the form of some lyrics to a new song. No, they’ve not even played the song yet, but who are we to complain? The lyrics [...]
Neimo, Pianos, NYC 12.12.07: Sentimentalist Magazine Live Review
Neimo: Pretty Parisian Garçons Take On NYC
It’s a Wednesday..It’s a cold night in December, and Pianos was even more of a nightmare than usual.. but this band can definitely pack a room! America needs to take notice. Neimo, the latest import from the Parisian underground, have landed on our doorsteps.
Justice and Mos Def, The FADER/Cornerstone Party, Bowery Ballroom, NYC, 12.10.07: Sentimentalist Magazine Live Review
Justice conjures a moody party mode
To celebrate their 50th issue, The FADER outdid themselves even by their usual lofty party standards, bringing White Williams, DJ Enuff, DJ Tony Touch, Justice, and Mos Def to the stage a the Bowery Ballroom on Monday, December 10th. Combining forces with Cornerstone, who were celebrating their 100th [...]
"Poetic" and overwrought, I like this though: "In the husk of a new construction " 
The show was sensational and everyone was in top form both on and off stage! Backstage gossip revealed that there ...
she came last year with rilo kiley and 2 years ago with the watson twins but i couldn't go to ...
Can someone tell me why she refuses to come to canada? Has she ever played a show here? I live ...
"if the world does come to an end i will be dancing through it…..@ a SYH show!!"
brilliant. I second that. 
