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Lightning Dust

On their third haunted outing, Amber Webber (guitar, vocals) and Joshua Wells (synths) reel in their tempos to a barbiturate-induced crawl as the former’s trembling…

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Moonface

Fast Peter Moonface is the solo project of Spencer Krug, who is also known for his work with Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown. Organ Music…

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Okkervil River

Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe Okkervil River seem to have a flair for the dramatic which has never been more apparent than…

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Small Black

02 search party When Casio first introduced their line of keyboards and samplers in the early ‘80s, they were intended mostly as a toy—especially when…

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Peter Wolf Crier

Hard As Nails Peter Pisano and Brian Moen are the duo that operate under the name of Peter Wolf Crier. The Minneapolis-based pair have released…

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Sunset Rubdown

For anyone who has been following recent developments in the career of Spencer Krug, Dragonslayer won’t come as much of a surprise. Like his recent…

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Dinosaur Jr.

Farm is Dinosaur Jr.’s second album since the original lineup reunited in 2005, and it finds the trio revisiting the sound that made it such…

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Julie Doiron

If only there existed a genre of music for “easy listening” that wasn’t tainted by implications of soulless dirge and AM radio. How easy it…

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Swan Lake

Swan Lake’s 2006 debut, Beast Moans, was a classic example of a supergroup that was less than the sum of its parts. Almost every track…

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Sunset Rubdown

In the past couple of years, the indie music scene has increasingly given the impression of a snake eating its own tail. In a relatively…