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Album Review: Weyes Blood and the Dark Juices – The Outside Room

Josh Becker·July 7, 2011

“She sounds just like Nico!” will probably be many listeners’ first thought when Natalie Mering starts singing on...

Earlier in the year, Cut Copy released an album to both praise and criticism (cough), with one talking...

FM Stringer·July 6, 2011

Okay, so if you’ll allow me to be obtuse – and really you’re going to have to –...

Will Ryan·July 5, 2011

Recorded in a church has a kind of nice ring to it. More often than not it’s a...

Ray Finlayson·July 5, 2011

The last we heard of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah was the somewhat obtuse and impenetrable single “Statues,”...

Ray Finlayson·July 5, 2011

Quiet Lights are the kind of band who make music that matches their name. At their most apt...

Will Ryan·July 4, 2011

Many of us first heard Clams Casino peaking out from behind some of hip-hop’s more blog-centric figureheads –...

Henry Hauser·July 4, 2011

After passing on Nebraska, Springsteen’s claustrophobic chronicle of rustbelt stasis and suffocation, along with a few warped Phil...

Rob Hakimian·July 3, 2011

The Rosebuds are still just as much a band as they’ve ever been, even if they’re no longer a couple.

Ad Mehta·July 1, 2011

Hip hop began as a reaction to the insipid, glossed-over disco that dominated radio in the ’70s. The...