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Interview: Sam Rosenthal of Black Tape for a Blue Girl
In a day and age where indie record labels appear and then wither away in a matter of months, it is an amazing feat that Sam Rosenthal’s Projekt Records has been going since 1983.
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Rediscover: Perhapst: Perhapst
John Moen is probably best known as the drummer for the Decemberists, but he’s worked with a number of different acts since the ’80s, including his ’90s band the Maroons, Elliott Smith and, later,
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Concert Review: Phoenix
(Photos: Annisa Rizky Amalia) It’s always a risk to tour in support of a new record before said album has been released. While some concertgoers enjoy hearing unfamiliar songs in a live setting for
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Concert Review: Lee Fields & the Expressions/Lady
(Photos: Matt Conzen) The evening started promisingly, with a tingle of anticipation suffusing the room. It was an early-arriving crowd, something of a rarity for a +21 weeknight show here but that wasn’t entirely
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Holy Hell! Anodyne Turns 20
For many people Uncle Tupelo’s legacy will always be as the group that gave birth to Wilco and Son Volt. It’s easy to forget that at the time of their final album, 1993’s Anodyne,
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Concert Review: Excision/Paper Diamond
As a long time proponent of hyper-bass music, even I must admit that the genre is by no means the most technically challenging to produce. Like all genres, the artists within bass music run
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PLAYLIST: Depeche Mode
Our last entry was in July with the eccentric country collective Lambchop, so this time we went in a completely different direction and chose a true icon of electronica: Depeche Mode. Between the band’s
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Concert Review: Django Django
(Photos: Beth Crook) There’s often an underlying sliver of apprehension when one sees a much loved band for the first time. Django Django, whose self-titled debut became the soundtrack to the second half of
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Holy Hell! Painful Turns 20
Yo La Tengo had been around for nearly a decade before Painful was released on October 5, 1993 but with an endlessly shifting personnel lineup, they had yet to develop a consistent, recognizable identity.
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Concert Review: Mount Moriah
(Photos: Allison Hussey) The Monday night crowd at Schubas might not have been huge, but they were certainly vocal about their love of Mount Moriah’s music. The North Carolina-based alt-country/Americana/rock outfit had just come
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