Archive | February, 2011

Band of the Day: Wye Oak – “Hot as Day” {from FaceCulture.com}

Posted on 25 February 2011 by Mylynda Guthrie

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Band of the Day: The Veils video for “The Stars Came Out Once the Lights Went Out”

Posted on 23 February 2011 by Mylynda Guthrie

The Veils’ Finn Andrews is one of those rare artists whose passions and eccentricities stretch so far that you cannot simply hope to understand him, you just have to sit back and enjoy the end product. One of the hallmarks of their stage shows is Andrews possessed stage performance, convulsions and speaking in tongues oft […] Continue Reading

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O’Death Live Session – “Home”

Posted on 23 February 2011 by Mylynda Guthrie

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Album Review: The Decemberists – “The King is Dead”

Posted on 21 February 2011 by Mylynda Guthrie

by Gray Bouchard I didn’t want to like one, I really didn’t. My reasoning, of course, flawed, through perhaps not in the way you might think: I actually like the Decemberists quite a bit. In fact, it’s my enjoyment of their last album, The Hazards of Love, which had me rooting against their latest work, […] Continue Reading

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The Habitual Adventures of Zak Freed

Posted on 06 February 2011 by Mylynda Guthrie

I was on my way to cash an incredibly insignificant check when instead I got stuck listening to this old man at the stop playing a Ruan lute. He looked the part for the sounds that it made, too... Mustaches like the one this guy had have got to hold some kind of ancient, magical power - and judging by how old this instrument in particular seemed to be to me, it probably took him two hundred thousand years to really be able to harness its glory. Continue Reading

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DeVotchKa – “100 Other Lovers”

Posted on 03 February 2011 by James Gentry

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The Good Life: Album of the Year

Posted on 01 February 2011 by Mylynda Guthrie

I was there. It was awesome. Continue Reading

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