Category: Classic Reviews
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Romantico by 800 Cherries | Album Review
You stumble upon a song that you like. Nice! You check out the rest of the album. Well-listened! You look up the band. Knowledge! They have a few other albums. Can’t wait! One of them was only available on cassette. Rough! No new music in over twenty years. Classic… Everyone has at least one of…
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Panda Bear & Sonic Boom: Reset Album Review
I recall listening to an episode of the hit internet radio show Time Crisis, hosted by Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig and American painter and musician Jake Longstreth, where the pair interviewed guitarist Johnny Marr of The Smiths fame. When asked about the influences behind writing some of the most iconic guitar riffs of all time,…
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In Rainbows by Radiohead | Album of the Week
Twitch. BandCamp. OnlyFans. The un-deleteable U2 album on your phone. Bedroom pop. Lofi beats to relax/study to. The Tupac hologram. MLM schemes. What connects each of these cultural concepts? All are innovations in content and payment exchange, and all derive from Radiohead’s 2007 release of their seventh studio album, In Rainbows. Coming off of 2003’s…
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Conduit by machinegum | Album of the Week
In the wake of 2016’s Future Present Past, all looked finished for The Strokes. The EP’s standout “Threat of Joy” lamented the end of the band’s good old days, now living with, “the dice on parole.” With their obligations to The Strokes behind them, each band member pursued solo projects, chasing creative freedom that wasn’t…
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Album of the Week: “Highway 61 Revisited” by Bob Dylan
July 25th, 1965 – Bob Dylan is set to perform at the Newport Folk Festival alongside fellow stars of the folk music genre. A year prior, Dylan appeared at the 1964 edition of the festival, experiencing huge national exposure for the first time. His folk ballads and protest songs from “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” and…
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What if Peter Walsh was a Sad Indie Girl?
One of our early interactions with Peter Walsh’s consciousness in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway comes after he leaves the titular Clarissa’s home. Following his tearful French exit, Peter walks the streets of London, haunted by the half-hour chime of St. Margaret’s clock tower. Peter battles thoughts of aging, death, anxiety, and failure – all interrupted,…
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Album of the Week: “Bluffer’s Guide to the Flight Deck” by Flotation Toy Warning
Every once in a listen, we encounter musical pieces that hold in them some innate sense of familiarity. Perhaps an artist’s musical style is reflective of another you’ve heard, or you encounter some forgotten sound which, when sampled, rings a nostalgic bell within your memory. Regardless of the reasoning for your recognition, familiarity brings with…
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Album of the Week: “Unleashed” by Toby Keith
Following 9/11, the country music genre experienced a massive shift in tone and subject matter, powered by rampant blind nationalism drudged up by the attacks and subsequent unjust wars of Bush’s United States. Gone were the soulful ballads of working class struggles and in came ramped up anthems of pride and praise for American hegemony.…
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