Second Look: Rilo Kiley – Rilo Kiley

Jeremy J. FisetteOctober 7, 2020

When Rilo Kiley broke out of the morass of emotional indie rock of the early 2000s, with 2002’s exquisite and assured The Execution of All Things, many people ...

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Second Look: The Divine Comedy – Casanova

Ray FinlaysonSeptember 16, 2020

Like I imagine many others did, I found The Divine Comedy through the Irish comedy series Father Ted. The Northern Irish band ushered in a new set of fans and ...

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Second Look: The Divine Comedy – Regeneration

John WohlmacherSeptember 16, 2020

The idea of time capsules is one always prevalent in music. An album can bring about images, smells, feelings long thought lost. Our memories, filtered through...

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Second Look: The Divine Comedy – Absent Friends

Lauren MullineauxSeptember 16, 2020

Your memory is a powerful thing, but there’s no denying that we often lack the ability to render clear images of the past and that’s where a smell, a sight, a ...

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Second Look: This Heat – This Heat

Harrison Suits BaerAugust 29, 2020

What exactly is progressive about progressive rock? If by “progressive rock” you mean the grandiose classical canon worship of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, not m...

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Second Look: This Heat – Deceit

John WohlmacherAugust 29, 2020

No screams disturbed the silence. A few survivors shuffled through the debris, quietly begging for water. People, houses, factories – reduced to ash. Those who...

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Second Look: Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare

Brendan FrankAugust 17, 2012

As a child, you typically listen to the music that your parents are playing, be it on their stereos or the radio. At the very least, you do this until you’re ol...

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Second Look: X-Ray Spex – Germfree Adolescents

Joshua PickardAugust 10, 2012

The glitz of glam rock had faded away to make room for the noisier, more distorted visions spewed forth from bands like Suicide and The Dead Boys. The free-spir...

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Second Look: Smog – Knock Knock

Andrew HalversonAugust 3, 2012

Bill Callahan has one of the most storied careers of any active musician. There are veterans who have spent more time on Earth releasing records, but Callahan h...

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Second Look: The Replacements – Tim

David WolfsonJuly 12, 2012

Tim is an oddity of an album. Sandwiched between The Replacements' magnum opus (Let It Be) and their first album with pronounced commercial aspirations (Pleased...

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