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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Second Look: Strata – Strata Presents the End of the World

Andrew BaileyMay 24, 2012

Strata are no longer making music together, but back when they were, I saw them share bills with the likes of Finger Eleven, Chevelle, Smile Empty Soul, and Tra...

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Second Look: Pink Floyd – The Division Bell

Jason HirschhornApril 27, 2012

As one of the two post-Roger Waters albums Pink Floyd released, The Division Bell remains difficult to contextualize. Much had changed in the years since the fi...

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Second Look: Pink Floyd – Ummagumma

Will RyanApril 23, 2012

Ummagumma is a pretty good snapshot of where Pink Floyd was in '69. "Ummagumma" is a colloquial slang for sex (maybe). The album sleeve is a sort of pointlessly...

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Second Look: Pink Floyd – Meddle

Daniel GriffithsApril 19, 2012

Every band has their cult album; an album that is revered in critical circles and fan circles, but, for reasons unknown, will never be the first album that’s re...

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