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Albert Hammond, Jr: All Aboard the Happy Rocket

The new Albert Hammond, Jr. record was almost called Cockpit Voice Recordings if you can believe it. But the curly-headed guy with the guitar worried it wouldn’t be light enough; too “serious in the wrong way,” even. He worries about these things.

July 8th, 2008 | Continued
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Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Self-titled

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson’s voice lives in the bowels of human existence; it wails and drones through rat-infested dive bars in shady neighborhoods and the squalid homes of sallow heroin addicts. It echoes through the after hours of a sleazy strip club and rusted benches in Washington Square Park, benches that once gave MBAR a […]

July 8th, 2008 | Continued
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Conservative Man - ‘Mirabel and the Hikikomori’

It’s a sunny day in purgatory, a hopeful walk through T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” while impish shadows tug at your conscience. It’s funeral music for grounded transients and energetic fuck-ups, for upbeat nihilists and manic loners; and it all revolves around Ian McCarthy’s meticulously constructed conflict with isolation. The New Hampshire-based multi-instrumentalist writhes poetically […]

July 8th, 2008 | Continued

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