I was bound to review Spacemaker no matter what genre the band was thanks to the intriguing information that Microtia create their own instruments and that this album cover and…
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Michael Parr
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The Silver Seas are back with Chateau Revenge, which Michael Parr thinks might be the best record released so far this year.
Dave Steed
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There’s kind of an interesting back story behind these old-school Swedish death metalers. They formed in 1988 as Beyond, released three demos and ended up breaking up in 1994 having not…
Ken Shane
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Quick, name another band whose lineup has been intact for 26 years. Not that easy is it? Not these days, not any days. Los Lobos can claim that distinction. Steve…
Dave Steed
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My fellow metal lovers, I am here to preach to you — to preach the truth! Proghma-C’s debut full length Bar-Do Travel has been out since 2009 oversees, but just…
Pete Chianca
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When Arcade Fire turned up in 2004, it was with nothing less than the most uplifting reflection on mortality ever put to record, the elegiac yet hopeful Funeral. Their 2007…
Michael Parr
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The Haus of Gaga has unleashed another look at Lady Gaga’s hits, Michael Parr braves the little monsters with his review.
Ken Shane
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“These are the days I remember.” With these words, Mark Olson opens his latest solo venture Many Colored Kite. These are good days for Olson, particularly coming as they do…
Dave Steed
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I don’t do too many non-metal reviews these days. I generally have a hard time coming up those creative $2 words to describe how moved I am by anything that doesn’t…
Matt Wardlaw
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30 years. Jesus. Really? I was in Chicago earlier this summer and had a brief visit with my longtime frenemy and Popdose colleague Robert Cass. During conversation, I was expressing…
Ted Asregadoo
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For me, working in the radio industry has its hazards, and one is being bombarded with music from artists who are clearly more product than performer. In early 2001, coming…
Dave Steed
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It’s about time Early Man put out a new full-length album. Their last one was Closing In, released close to five years ago on Matador records, which really wasn’t the…
Dave Steed
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There are certain things that draw me to metal records from bands I’ve never really heard of before. The first is the name of the band — and we all…
Dave Steed
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I feel the need right up front to warn you to brace yourself before you listen to The Body’s All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood. I could…
Mike Heyliger
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While his partner in OutKast, Andre ”3000″ Benjamin, indulged increasingly bizarre flights of fancy, ranging from grass skirts and shoulder pads to Beatlesque jangle pop, Antwan ”Big Boi” Patton was…
Michael Parr
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In a time where anyone with a laptop can churn out a record, it is difficult to know where to stop and listen. Michael Parr has one that deserves your time.
Dave Steed
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It’s been 7 years since a Meltgsnow record, with the group having released their debut in 2003 and only getting to the follow up now. They are based out of…
Jeff Giles
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Great Big Sea is one of those bands that fills a particular niche — in this case, traditional Newfoundland folk with a modern pop twist — so completely that no…
Michael Parr
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Michael Parr takes on the latest Prince record, 20Ten, and promises not to “just fill your head with numbers.”
Jeff Giles
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Curtains for You’s publicist pitched us What a Lovely Surprise to Wake Up Here as “The Beatles meets vaudeville meets The Muppet Show,” a bizarrely promising description that led Way…
Ken Shane
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A new Crowded House album is always cause for celebration, and Ken Shane thinks their latest is one of their best.
Bob Cashill
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Warner Bros. Records sent me Hans Zimmer’s soundtrack to this week’s much-anticipated blockbuster Inception. Cards on the table: While I certainly respect writer-director Christopher Nolan, I wasn’t crazy about The…
Michael Fortes
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Michael Fortes reviews one of the year’s best new albums – a folk-pop masterpiece by veteran singer/songwriter and one-time Jewel collaborator Steve Poltz.
Dave Steed
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I’m honestly a little disturbed with myself right now. I don’t know if I’ve just been pummeling myself with so much new music that I can’t seem to tell the…
Ann Logue
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Draumalandid is part of a full-on multimedia expose of Alcoa’s aluminum smelters in Reydarfjordur, Iceland. The company’s first plant was planned in 2002, built in 2005, and became live in…
Matt Springer
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The news spread across my Twitter feed late yesterday afternoon like a pixelated wildfire: 1) Liz Phair had a new single out; 2) It was fucking horrible. These things are…
Dave Steed
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I’m finally getting around to reviewing a mess of albums that have come out in the first half of 2010 that I just couldn’t find the 1000 words needed to devote…
Ken Shane
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I’ll tell you one thing right from the jump; Alejandro Escovedo’s new album, Street Songs of Love (Fantasy/Concord Music Group), may be my favorite album of the year from a…
Jason Hare
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As the story goes, the initial scene backstage at Lilith Fair in 1997 was a somewhat lonely one: many of the featured artists stayed in their individual dressing rooms with…
Ken Shane
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It’s a rare but welcome event for Ken Shane when Jimmy Webb releases a new album.