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Album Review : Bill Callahan’s ‘Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest’

Bill Callahan is one of America’s best modern songwriters. Like contemporaries Will Oldham, Damien Jurado, Phil Elverum, and the late Vic Chesnutt, Callahan paints pictures of worlds of long ago…

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Album Review: Lettuce – Elevate

“This album definitely stretches the boundaries,” says chief composer and percussionist Deitch of New York funk sextet Lettuce, before pretty much summing up the album succinctly, saying “The idea was…

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Album Review : Tim Heidecker – What The Brokenhearted Do…

It took me a long time to find an “in” with Tim Heidecker. In-particular, the comedy he created with Eric Warheim. Watching Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job on…

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Album Review: Hackney Colliery Band – Collaborations Vol. 1

I have to declare my prejudices. One of the best nights of my life was spent in the company of the Hackney Colliery Band (HCB). We turned up disgracefully early,…

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ALBUM REVIEW: MOTIONLESS IN WHITE- DISGUISE

Motionless In White made waves in 2012 with their scene-shaking Fearless Records debut Creatures, and have since become the burgeoning goth princes of modern metal. Their latest effort Disguise has…

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Album Review: House and Land – Across the Field

It’s always this way for me, with music like this. Everything about it evokes the country; but not the country seen from far away of slow rolling slopes, soft meadows,…

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Album Review: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – And Now For The Whatchamacallit

Perth’s Psychedelic Porn Crumpets new album, And Now For The Whatchamacallit, puts them on a pedestal with their fellow countrymen King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard (I figured I wouldn’t…

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Album Review : Paul Gilbert’s ‘Behold Electric Guitar’

I first discovered Paul Gilbert when I was a freshman in high school. Somewhere around 1988 or 1989 I picked up the Racer X album Second Heat and I was…

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