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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Braid re-releases on Polyvinyl
Braid was a band from Champaign-Urbana, Illinois that can be categorized with other early 90′s acts with a guitar driven, aggressive sound. They have the energy and abrasive timbre of Snapcase, the edgy stop-start math rock leaning of Polvo and … Continue reading
Posted in 2010, albums, groovemine, music, news, reviews
Tagged 2010, braid, champaign, groovemine, hard core, illinois, polyvinyl, re-release, recordings, rock, urbana
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Album review: Women – “Public Strain”
Women’s latest release, “Public Strain”, is artier and more experimental than much of what is out there right now. The album leans towards an early Sonic Youth aesthetic with its use of ambiance, noise, feedback drones and aggressive guitar attacks … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, album, band, calgary, groovemine, guitar, music, public strain, review, rock, women
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A by no means complete list of emotionally devastating lyrics
Musicians are of that breed of individual that wear their emotions on their sleeve. They seem to feel them more intensely than others, or are at least worse at hiding their emotions than everyone else. So many musicians, that didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in 2010, miscellaneous, music, songs, thoughts
Tagged andrew bird, depressing, honesty, hurricane bells, lyrics, pain, songs, steve schiltz, titus andronicus, tom waits
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Working for a Nuclear Free City – “Jojo Burger Tempest”
Every once in a while an album comes along that can only be described as “massive”. Working for a Nuclear Free City’s double-disc “Jojo Burger Tempest” is one of those albums. Eighteen tracks that clock in at nearly an hour … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, albums, electronic, groovemine, jojo burger tempest, music, prog, review, WFANFC, working for a nuclear free city
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New Hurricane Bells video and EP
Hurricane Bells is the latest project from Steve Schiltz, of Longwave fame. After releasing their album “Secrets are Sinister” in 2008 Schiltz began working on some songs by himself at his home with nothing but a Macbook and an M-box. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, hurricane bells, longwave, monsters, music, steve schiltz, tonight is the ghost, twilight new moon
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Shellac at the Ninth Ward at Babeville, Buffalo, NY (September 2, 2010)
I have been waiting to see Shellac for several years now. The opportunity came and I seized it. I didn’t even have to go to Chicago, like I planned on doing back in 2007. Shellac came to Buffalo on their … Continue reading