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Album review: Terry Malts – “Killing Time”

Taking the garage punk aesthetic to unexpected places and mixing it with an early rock and roll sensibility for melodic pop hooks, Terry Malts succeeds in making fun, catchy noise with the occasional biting social commentary. It’s all apropos of … Continue reading

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Favorites albums of 2011

(Originally posted on Tympanogram.com on December 22, 2011) It’s hard to tell whether this was a really great year for music or if I was just paying attention more than last year. That sums up my feelings at the end … Continue reading

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Album review: Priestbird – “Beachcombers”

Priestbird is the new moniker of former instrumental indie-prog outfit Tarantula A.D. It seems that tensions within the band came to a breaking point such that they didn’t feel they would be able to continue making music together. They split … Continue reading

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Album review: Psychedelic Horseshit – “Laced”

For those of you out there that feel like White Fence’s release “Is Growing Faith” was a little too “mainstream” and accessible, you’ll be happy to know that Psychedelic Horseshit’s latest release, “Laced” is neither of those things. Psychedelic Horseshit … Continue reading

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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

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Album review: The Two Koreas – “Science Island”

Sometimes a straight forward rock album is exactly what the doctor ordered. Noisy, sloppy, balls to the wall rock has the power to erase any traces of trend-mongering buzzbands that exist only to grab a quick piece of the action. … Continue reading

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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

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Album review: Deerhoof – “Deerhoof vs. Evil”

Deerhoof, the ultra-quirky indie math rock/pop/irony heavy band is back with an album cheekily titled “Deerhoof Vs. Evil”. To me Deerhoof is a band that I am constantly curious about. They seem to be combining things that one wouldn’t necessarily … Continue reading

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Album review: The Insane Warrior – “We Are the Doorways”

Music has the ability to take on a character of its own and often the musicians that are creating it feel that they are a different person while in the studio. This much is quite true for hip-hop producer RJD2 … Continue reading

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Album review: White Fence – “Is Growing Faith”

For the past few years the retro-60′s sound has been featured very prominently in several albums that have made a lot of music fans stand up and take notice. Take for example Best Coast, Caribou, Deerhunter, MGMT and the list … Continue reading

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