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Codeine Announces Full Reformation Tour

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:00:54 +0000

The freshly-reformed Codeine have announced a full reformation tour. The slowcore originators had already been announced as playing at Primavera in both ...

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Tune-Yards Announces More 2012 Tour Dates

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:00:44 +0000

After releasing the almighty Whokill back in April, Merrill Garbus spent most of 2011 on tour, riding that buzz 'til Tune-Yards became one of the year's biggest breakout bands.

Come 2012, ...

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Top 10 Tuesdays: Rough Trade Albums

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:00:04 +0000

In their initial incarnation as post-punk co-op turned DIY-empowering independent distributor, Rough Trade Records were there for so many classic indie records: giving the world LPs by The Raincoats, Liliput, ...

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Introducing: Dunes

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:00:58 +0000

Name: Dunes
From: Los Angeles, California
Story: More Ex-Mika Miko summery-pop
Sound: Guitars dangling languid and lazy

Like particularly-buzzy buzz band Bleached, Los Angeleno trio Dunes formed out of the ashes of noisy punks ...

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Free Music Monday: Y La Bamba "My Squawk"

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:00:59 +0000

When Y La Bamba debuted with 2008's Alida St., they were Luz Elena Mendoza's lo-fi home-recording project; the singer half-whispering hushed hymnals for the ...

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Free Music Monday: Elfin Saddle "The Changing Wind"

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:00:26 +0000

"The Changing Wind" sounds like folk-music put through the grinder of history. For all its archaic instrumentage and pantomimed brogues and sea-shanty organ, Elfin Saddle's rattling five-minute lament is clearly ...

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Free Music Monday: Dirty Three "Rising Below"

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:00:50 +0000

Who looks more wild-eyed and crazy these days: violin savant Warren Ellis, with beard down to here; or drum-clattering percussion genius Jim White, with hair out to there? In the ...

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Free Music Monday: Tindersticks "Frozen"

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:00:26 +0000

"If I could just hold you, hold you," Stuart A. Staples sings, again and again, in "Frozen," sounding swept up in sweaty desperation; pining for an opportunity to hang onto ...

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Free Music Monday: Moonface "Teary Eyes and Bloody Lips"

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:00:40 +0000

Spencer Krug knows opening lines. "Teary eyes and bloody lips/make you look like Stevie Nicks," he sings at the beginning of his latest Moonface single; introducing a refrain whose initial ...

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From the Vaults Friday: Yoko Ono, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band (1970)

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:00:45 +0000

The Year: 1970
The Album: Yoko Ono, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band
Who it Influenced: Public Image Ltd., Sonic Youth, Boredoms, Deerhoof, Tune-Yards, Gang Gang Dance

It's ...

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