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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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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
Posted in 2011, albums, groovemine, reviews
Tagged american, dag, dag for dag, dark, haunting, snavely, swedish
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Album review: Radiohead – “The King of Limbs”
We can always count on Radiohead to change the game from album to album. Because of this I feel that their latest album, “The King of Limbs”, deserves something beyond the usual track by track review. Everything that Radiohead does, … Continue reading
Posted in 2011, albums, music, news, reviews, thoughts, writing
Tagged 2011, albums, in depth, jonny greenwood, king of limbs, phil selway, radiohead, thom yorke, thoughts, vinyl, writing
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EP review: Grand Lake – “Leaves Ellipse”
Grand Lake are following up last years exacting, skilled and expansive album “Blood Sea Dream” with an EP that plays their hand a little closer to their chest. “Leaves Ellipse” features intimate, homespun, heartfelt melodies brought to life with the … Continue reading
Posted in 2011, albums, music, Uncategorized
Tagged 2011, ep, grand lake, leaves ellipse, west coast
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Album review: Yuck – “Yuck”
Finally, after all the hype of indie culture coming to the mainstream, with Arcade Fire winning the Album of the Year Grammy and every band everywhere looking for a unique sound, we get an album that gives us exactly what … Continue reading
Posted in 2011, albums, groovemine, music, reviews
Tagged 120 minutes, british, indie, mtv, rock, sebadoh, shoegaze, sloan, sonic youth, thrush hermit, yuck
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Album review: Colin Stetson – “New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges”
Colin Stetson is a saxophonist that is clearly out of his mind. Sax players, in my experience, are a divided lot. They usually either stay on the side of jazz or classical and never the twain shall meet. More accurately, … Continue reading
Posted in 2011, albums, contemporary classical, groovemine, jazz, music, reviews
Tagged 2011, albusm, amazing, classical, colin stetson, composition, contemporary, groovemine, jazz, music, reviews, saxophone, virtuosic
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Album review: Chikita Violenta – “Tre3s”
Chikita Violenta is a Mexican indie rock band that is trying to make waves in a very crowded scene right now. They have the sound and the songs and, mostly, the production backing them up. Unfortunately they are about 6 … Continue reading
Posted in 2011, albums, music, reviews
Tagged arena rock, arts and crafts, bss, chikita violenta, indie, mexican indie, music, rock
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