Review: The Killers – Pressure Machine
The Killers’ seventh country-fied album Pressure Machine is about as far as you can get from the bright lights of Vegas
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Review: Kings of Convenience – Peace or Love
You’ll be glad Kings of Convenience are back after 12 years, but Peace or Love doesn’t surpass the duo’s 2000s releases.
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Review: Bright Eyes – Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was brings all the aspects of past Bright Eyes together at once, and then turns everything up to 11.
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Review: Stephen Malkmus – Traditional Techniques
For all his musical unpredictability lately, Stephen Malkmus certainly sounds like he knows what he’s doing on the folksy Traditional Techniques.
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Review: Beirut – Gallipoli
Gallipoli might promise visions of European sophistication and exoticism, but its already well-explored musical terrain makes it feel much more familiar.
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Review: Conor Oberst – Salutations
Ah Conor Oberst. Feels like it was just the other day that I was writing about him… Oh wait, that’s because he only released the album Ruminations in October of last year. If you’re thinking five months is a relatively short gap between albums, realize that Ruminations was a fairly bare bones release. It consisted
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Review: Conor Oberst – Ruminations
Conor Oberst is a man of many faces. He’s best known as the founder and frontman of the band Bright Eyes, whose angsty, acoustic guitar-driven “emo” songs reached peak popularity in the early to mid-2000s. This of course oversimplifies the band’s music, which mellowed and matured significantly over the years, but the association remains. There’s
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Review: Bon Iver – 22, A Million
It’s been nearly a decade since Bon Iver first released music that made their name a cultural touchstone, or at least an indie music touchstone. If that seems like a strong word choice, realize that many see frontman Justin Vernon as the perfect indie music archetype or stereotype (depending on who you ask). In a
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