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Monthly Archives: April 2011
The meaning of Quartertonality
I’ve had this blog for a few years now, but only really been seriously writing for it for just under a year. The real beginning was in July 2010 when I began writing for groovemine.com. Mark, the owner of that … Continue reading
Posted in 2011, action, miscellaneous, music, personal, philosophy, thoughts, writing
Tagged classical, concert music, ives, musicology, pop, quartertonality, reviewing, serious, thoughts
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Figurines
This post originally appeared on tympanogram.com on April 7, 2011 here. Figurines is a poppy rock trio based out of Denmark that has been touring fairly relentlessly since their formation. Their latest self-titled release is 11 tracks of tight songwriting, … Continue reading
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Tagged band, danish, figurines, hanging from above, rock
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New album: tUnE-yArDs – “w h o k i l l”
This post originally appeared on tympanogram.com on April 20, 2011, here. There has been much talk online about w h o k i l l, the 2nd full length album from Merrill Garbus’ near-solo project tUnE-yArDs. Every review places it … Continue reading
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Tagged 4AD, merrill garbus, music, tUnE-yArDs, w h o k i l l, whokill
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Album review: Sloan – “The Double Cross”
Halifax natives Sloan are celebrating their 20th year as a band with an album full of hook laden power pop perfection. As usual the album title serves as a double meaning. Double cross meaning 2 xs, the Roman numeral for … Continue reading
Album review: Colourmusic – “My ______ is Pink”
Go ahead: admit the first thing that popped into your head when you read the title. Yeah, that’s what I thought, sicko. Well that’s not how this reviewer read it at all. I read it as “My blank is Pink” … Continue reading
Posted in 2011, albums, groovemine, music, reviews
Tagged colourmusic, dance, groovemine, heavy, pink, review, rock, spectral
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Jerseyband Kickstarter project
This post was originally published at here at Tympanogram.com on April 15, 2011: Jerseyband is a unique group. They play a style of music that they have dubbed “lungcore” – a hard-edged version of prog-metal fronted by a horn section. … Continue reading
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Record Store Day, 2011
Record Store Day this year is April 16th, this coming Saturday. In case you aren’t aware, it is the annual celebration of independent music stores. If I remember correctly it started out as a pretty small endeavor with only a … Continue reading
Posted in 2011, albums, miscellaneous, music, news, personal, thoughts, Uncategorized
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Album review: Dag För Dag – “Boo”
I used to own a cassette when I was a kid. Well, I owned several. Having grown up in the 80’s means I went through a lot of cassettes. Blank tapes became canvases that I recorded memories onto. They contained … Continue reading
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Tagged american, dag, dag for dag, dark, haunting, snavely, swedish
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New Grand Lake single
Grand Lake, having recently released their truly wonderful EP “Leaves Ellipse” has now put out the 2nd single from that EP. “Christmas, California”, described perfectly by Grand Lake bandleader Caleb Nichols as “drenched in springtime sunshine, total California ear-candy.” It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged caleb nichols, california, download, ep, grand lake, leaves ellipse, single, song
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