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Now Hear This: Sarandon: No Cardigans Please, Twee is Simply Awful

The UK’s Sarandon like to call themselves a pop band with a short attention span.  The name of their latest album, Kill Twee Pop, (released in the U.S. on Slumberland Records), seems to say it all: this is no cutsie neo-folk act, but rather, a spastic, twitching garage punk act that delights both in mashing […]

24 Jun 2008 | More
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The Kooks: Recording with ‘Big’ Grit

The Kooks have come a long way from our first interview in the winter of 2005. I first met the then-unknown band at John Henry’s Rehearsal Studios in King’s Cross, a ramshackle section of London. Our interviews launched from there to a snazzy rooftop in Brooklyn and now to a hotel room in Kansas City. […]

10 Jun 2008 | More
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Spiritualized: Everything in its Right Space

Jason Pierce has this clever go-to riff when faced with the suggestion that his lyrics are overwhelmingly autobiographical. It’s certainly not a stretch to come to such assumptions over a canon so mired in self-destruction and dripping with narcotica.
“I say in every interview that when you listen to Ray Charles singing, ‘I Can’t Stop Loving […]

4 Jun 2008 | More
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Bloody Social: Who Needs Labels Anyway?

Bloody Social is a downtown NYC act that plays by their own rules, without feeling the need to cozy up to a coddling publicity rep or bow down to the first label throwing them a bone. They might just be one of the few real rock and roll bands based in this glitzier-by-the-minute city. For […]

4 Jun 2008 | 10 comments | More
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Supergrass: Lasting like Diamonds

Life is confusing, and the UK’s super-darlings known as Supergrass are the first to admit it. In fact, their latest album, Diamond Hoo Ha, applauds that fact. As drummer Danny Goffey describes the loose concept behind the release, “You’re never quite in control of what you’re doing. We’ve all got calamities and stuff but you’ve […]

4 Jun 2008 | More

Album Reviews

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Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Self-titled

8 Jul 2008
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Conservative Man - ‘Mirabel and the Hikikomori’

8 Jul 2008
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Loene Carmen - ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Tears’

19 Jun 2008
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The Kiss-Off - ‘Brace’

19 Jun 2008
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The War On Drugs - ‘Wagonwheel Blues’

19 Jun 2008

Live Reviews

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Bloody Social at Pianos, NYC 7.03.08

4 Jul 2008
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The Fratellis at Webster Hall, NYC, 6.13.08

26 Jun 2008
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The Futureheads at Pianos, NYC, 6.18.08

23 Jun 2008
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The Kooks at Terminal 5, NYC with The Morning Benders 6.11.08

12 Jun 2008
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The Wombats at the Blender Gramercy Theater, NYC, June 3, 2008

6 Jun 2008