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Tag Archives: rock
Introducing: A Happy Death
(This post originally appeared on Tympanogram.com on November 16, 2011) It’s really great to be a music blogger. I get the chance to listen to a ridiculous amount of music that I would normally not have any clue existed. Sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in 2011, EP, music, reviews, tympanogram
Tagged garage, happy death, nazi zombies, portland, psych, review, rock, tympanogram, vinyl
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Album review: We Were Promised Jetpacks – “In the Pit of the Stomach”
Sometimes it just feels great to have some loud music blasting into your ears. It’s better if the sonic assault isn’t something that is relentless, rather persistent but giving and taking in all the right places. The band has a … Continue reading
Posted in 2011, albums, groovemine, music, reviews
Tagged indie rock, jetpacks, loud, pit, pit of stomach, rock, scottish, stomach, we were promised jetpacks
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Album review: Chad VanGaalen – “Diaper Island”
As a musician, and as someone that listens to a ridiculous amount of music, sometimes I am listening just for sounds. Sometimes the melodies and whether or not they are catchy take a backseat to the atmosphere that an album … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011, calgary, canadian, chad van gaalen, diaper island, flemish eye, gaalen, indie, rock, tympanogram
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Album review: Wild Flag – “Wild Flag”
The much anticipated album from indie rock “super group” Wild Flag has finally arrived, giving everyone something to shout about. One could practically hear the reviewers proclaiming the, at that point unnamed project, “Best of the Year” after Carrie Brownstein … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011, best of 2011, brownstein, cole, guitar, indie, pacific northwest, portland, rock, sleater-kinney, timony, weiss, wild flag
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Album review: Wooden Shjips – “West”
Wooden Shjips’ drone of ultra fuzzed out guitars aligns them with the trend of retro sounding new-music that seems to have exploded in the past couple of years. They are taking the psychedelic/early hard-rock sound and very much running with … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011, drone, guitar, music, psych, psych rock, psychedelic, rock, thrill jockey, west, wooden shjips
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Album review: Joan of Arc – “Life Like”
The Chicago based math-rock outfit with steady lineup changes, Joan of Arc, adds to their already frighteningly prolific repertoire with their latest effort, “Life Like”. You know that you are in for a serious journey when an album begins with … Continue reading
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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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
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Tagged colourmusic, dance, groovemine, heavy, pink, review, rock, spectral
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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
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Tagged 120 minutes, british, indie, mtv, rock, sebadoh, shoegaze, sloan, sonic youth, thrush hermit, yuck
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