Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Better the Devil You Know
On the day in late winter that I catch up with Robert Levon Been of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club there are connection problems. He’s in a place, likely somewhere in California near the band’s home base, with bad reception. Somehow this seems like the perfect backdrop…
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Anton Newcombe on the Latest Brian Jonestown Massacre: When Everybody’s an Artist, Nobody is
The newest Brian Jonestown Massacre album, the band’s twelfth studio release, helmed, as usual, by Anton Newcombe, is a multi-cultural, unexpected exploration of beats, genres and tempos, far from any BJM psych-folk you’ve heard before. But don’t call Who Killed Sgt Pepper? a world album, per se.
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Liars: Unravelling the Fringe of a Sisterworld
Liars have come a long way since the release of their debut full-length, They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top. That 2001 album, rife with sublime, herky jerky dance beats, was recorded in a mere two days. Critics were quick to peg Liars as one among the pack of revivalists of the NYC post-punk, art/dance rock scene.
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These New Puritans: Breaking Their Own Sound Barriers
These New Puritans’ latest art rock opus, Hidden, grabs you like an angular installation of Banks Violette proportions (both minimal and epic at once), yet built with orchestra and electronics rather than meager fiberglass and fluorescent tubes.
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