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Song review: Bad Books – You Wouldn’t Have To Ask

Singer-songwriters Kevin Devine and Andy Hull team to produce "You Wouldn't Have To Ask." Check the review and grab the MP3 here! The post Song review: Bad Books – You Wouldn’t Have To Ask appeared...

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Les Savy Fav @ The Echo, L.A. Ca, 1/28/11

"what concerns me is how different the songs are now that they are accompanied with the harsh visual of Harrington's glistening man-breasts as he hangs from the stage lights wearing only a rainbow...

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Rural Alberta Advantage ‘Departing’ Album Review

Upon my introductory listen, the first half of the album seems in danger of falling flat; repetitive in musicality, predictable in dynamic, and relying too heavily on the forward delivery of working...

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The Dears ‘Degeneration Street’ Album Review

When it comes to drama, frontman Murray Lightburn delivers it with a heavy hand, and Degeneration Street especially leaves little room for redemption. At nearly an hour in length, the record leans...

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Loch Lomond ‘Little Me Will Start A Storm’ Album Review

Sometimes I fantasize about my college T.A's, high school band geeks and a selection of East Hollywood baristas all hanging out as adults in a garage somewhere in the Pacific Northwest wearing...

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. @ the Troubador

Venue: Troubador Date: 3/12/2011 My dad isn’t at the show with me but I’m thinking of him because he loves NASCAR and he loves America. I have a thing for pretty singing Jewish boys with bass guitars,...

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ROBOTANISTS ‘Plans in Progress’ Album Review

Label: Overhead Records Release Date: February 15th, 2011 Los Angeles east-siders might recognize the ROBOTANISTS from their February residency at The Silverlake Lounge, a local dive notorious for...

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Broken Bells: “Meyrin Fields” EP Review

Broken Bells- \"Meyrin Fields\" Side project supergroups make me more nervous than anything, and this probably stems from my taste in relationships in general. They have the potential to be either...

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KITTEN: Sunday School EP Review

I first heard fifteen year old Chloe Chaidez of Kitten two Decembers ago. I remember it was raining. I remember hoping it looked as cinematic as it felt, as I closed up shop on Hollywood Boulevard to...

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Rubik “Solar” Album Review

I always imagined Finland to be this really cold place with cool architecture where really tall girls in trench coats and pentagram tattoos talk in exotic accents and listen to a lot of metal. But this...

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Of Montreal’s “thecontrollersphere” EP Review

Now we find ourselves in the third installment of Of Montreal’s trilogy with thecontrollersphere EP, a progressive extension of False Priest and darker examination into Kevin Barnes’ frighteningly...

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. “It’s a Corporate World” Review

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. seems to still be riding the momentum of debut EP Horse Power right up until their full length release of It’s A Corporate World (which features three of the five EP songs). Josh...

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Interview with Nate Ruess of Fun

Fronted and assembled by indie power pop icon and mastermind, Nate Ruess, the history behind fun. may sound more or less like the makings of any other offshoot-outlet rather than a supergroup side...

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Kitten at the Echo (With a Whip)

The Echo- Los Angeles, CA June 28, 2011 After following the 15 year old frontwoman, Chloe Chaidez, for a year and a half now (I think that makes her sixteen, now), I still can’t decide if I want to be...

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The Elected at The Echo

The Echo, Los Angeles- July 22, 2011 I had been looking forward to this show since I received the Elected’s third and latest release back in May, Bury Me in Rings. Front man Blake Sennett is undeniably...

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Diary of a FYF Fest Survivor

The morning after FYF Fest is a morning where you make a personal promise to never put yourself through that kind of brutal agony again. Yet every year you find yourself back at the end of this ungodly...

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Andrew Dost of FUN. has a Delicious Conversation

Andrew Dost is one-third of the supergroup pop-rock outfit, FUN. and probably one of my favorite most talented and hilarious individuals that exist on the Internet and/or in real life. If you haven’t...

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The Pixies: Live at The Music Box

November 18, 2011- Los Angeles, CA Maybe it was the weather. When it rains, people in LA get weird. I, for one, don’t know how to dress or drive in these conditions, and those are two things I’m...

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Album Review: Big Harp –‘Chain Letters’

Though true to its predecessor’s intimate, soulful narrative and sensibility, Chain Letters is Big Harp’s louder, more electric, sophomore approach after their debut, White Hat. While foreshadowed by...

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Watch: Seth Wood –“Losing Streak”

I never considered myself a feminist, but when I came back, all these pictures of Jenny Lewis in that rainbow pantsuit were depressing me, and so was every other white girl with bangs in line at the...

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