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Album Review: Jamie Lidell – Jamie Lidell

Brendan Frank·February 26, 2013

It’s getting tougher to find music that isn’t tweaked, touched-up or airbrushed. For Jamie Lidell, the boundary between...

Joshua Pickard·February 26, 2013

Somewhere, in either Arone Dyer’s or Aron Sanchez’s house—maybe displayed prominently in some music room or possibly hid...

Will Ryan·February 25, 2013

Pop music’s recent fetishization by more underground and independent circles of music hasn’t arrived completely without baggage. Nostalgia plays...

Josh Becker·February 25, 2013

It’s been a while. Four years, in fact, since the Swedish disco duo, Sally Shapiro, released their last...

Rob Hakimian·February 22, 2013

The History of Apple Pie’s obsession with the sweetness of life is evident from their name to their...

Zachary Corsa·February 22, 2013

New York’s Psychic Ills are celebrating ten years as a band in 2013, and along the way they’ve...

Brendan Frank·February 22, 2013

Back in December, Phoenix revealed that Bankrupt! will ditch the pop overtones of its well-loved predecessor for something experimental and...

Jason Hirschhorn·February 21, 2013

It was all but chiseled in stone that Loveless was My Bloody Valentine’s final word, its epitaph. Even...

Ray Finlayson·February 21, 2013

Worker, the new release from Brazilian band Cambriana, is one of those records that let you decide whether or...

Josh Becker·February 21, 2013

“Chamber pop” has always struck me as an oddly derisive genre name, one I imagine being delivered with...