If there was a name for each week out of the year, this week would be called “wtfmusic week”. The Spies are no exception. The Spies fall into that category I mentioned not-so-long ago where they are playing music that sounds fun to play but I wouldn’t necessarily want to listen to it. Check...
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I won’t spend too much time fluffing this album up. I seriously can’t stand it. This came through my mailbox earlier this month and was recommended as “energetic indie pop from The Netherlands”. I gave it a chance. I seriously did. Her voice is good. No need for post-production magic for her. That’s the...
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Smoosh, once girls now young ladies, have been an on-going work-in-progress since their inception in 2004. Since their very older-than-their-age-of-10 release in 2004, fans seem to have been looking for the next step from innocent indie-pop to something… bigger. Maybe bigger isn’t the best word, but even if that were the case… they seem...
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Usually, starting out with something that targets a specific group of readers is not good… but imagine this: have you ever been in a situation where you see a band rocking out and you think to yourself that’d be fun to play but I don’t think I’d want to play like that all the...
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Who better to play with than your relatives? Meg and Dia do it. The Brady Bunch? Jackson 5? Van Halen? My loves Tegan and Sara? Usually, it’s not too difficult to find yourself playing with the people closest to you. CocoRosie, a duo of sisters, have found themselves existing in this world for… well…...
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Where do I begin… Here We Go Magic seems to be a former solo project turned band. The lo-fi music meets passive vocals means one thing to me: scenester love. That doesn’t necessarily make that insta-good or insta-bad does it? ….. Progressive and lo-fi. That’s what the scene is all about right now. What...
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Mr. Bordello, aka Eugene Hutz, and crew have been writing music and playing this gypsy punk thing for over a decade now. It’s fun, carefree, sing-a-long-y type music that can seemingly be played by either Mr. Hutz himself or his band of nine or more members. The intensity in the vocals and music can...
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I just got back from KFC with Ryan Tamborski (one of the other owners of 402 Productions) and had a Double Down. I decided that it was so… life changing that I’d review it. So, if you haven’t heard (and I know you have), the Double Down is basically a double chicken sandwich with...
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Maybe one of the more overlooked bands of the past decade, Matt Pond and his group is kind of like Ben Folds of the indie scene. Some might remember this guy from shows where he was the supporting act for some other headlining band. Some might remember one of their last seven albums, six...
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When I was in high school, a teacher of mine named Mr. Yaeger would hand us our books and tell us, “Now, before you read anything about this book… what can you infer from just the cover/art work/title/etc?” Being a disciple of his studies, I try to take his approach to albums as well....
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