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Track Review: Fleet Foxes – “Battery Kinzie”

For fans of Fleet Foxes, it has been an especially long wait for their imminent sophomore LP, Helplessness...

Brendan Frank·March 29, 2011

Jamie Woon’s debut alubm has been a possibility for a few years now; the inactivity that followed “Wayfaring...

Philip Cosores·March 28, 2011

When given the task to write about one of your favorite bands, which The Mountain Goats are, at...

Chase McMullen·March 28, 2011

The story is a simple one. A young, relatively charismatic rapper, following two somewhat overlooked independently released albums,...

Given that a recent trend in popular music has seen newer bands look to the past for their...

In 2008, The Low Anthem, then Ben Knox Miller, Jeff Prystowsky, and Jocie Adams, took to a small...

Daniel Rivera·March 24, 2011

It wasn’t initially common knowledge that Donald Glover (of Derrick Comedy, “30 Rock,” and “Community” fame) was an...

While writing about oneself is anything but an original idea, well executed autobiographical works can make listeners experience...

Luke Winkie·March 23, 2011

Retrospectively, shoegaze came and went pretty quickly; a burgeoning squall in the mid 80s, peaking with critical adulations...

Daniel Rivera·March 23, 2011

On “The Words That Maketh Murder,” the fourth track from PJ Harvey’s eighth album Let England Shake, there...