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Made in the Dark
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:32:04
Hot Chip's Made in the Dark is brimming with robot love, but it's far from being the work of slick automatons. On this, their third album, the British fivesome play sentimental, spastic robots. The record weaves (sometimes violently) from gorgeous, melancholic ballads into bursts of ... more
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P.D.A. (US Bonus Track)
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:09:12
Hey Willpower began as something of an elaborate inside joke, sprung from late-night conversations between San Francisco indie rockers Will Schwartz (of Imperial Teen) and Amy Linton (The Aislers Set), who shared a closeted love of '80s pop music and '90s Top 40 hip-hop records. The joke took on a ...more
The Black and White Album
Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:12:57
George Carlin once wondered aloud how it was possible to be nostalgic about a concept like "a little while ago," but if any band proves it to be possible, it's The Hives. The Hives were leaders of the garage-rock explosion in the early 2000's, along with The Strokes and The White Stripes, and while ...more
Buckle in the Bible Belt
Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:36:26
Ha Ha Tonka aren't shy about flaunting their Southern influences on their debut album, Buckle in the Bible Belt. Based out of Missouri, the band blends rockabilly and folk with an indie-rock mentality, even throwing in some elements of gospel on the album's first single, "St. Nick on the Fourth in a ...more
Halfway to Hazard
Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:39:24
Jesus, the great American outdoors and the love of a good
woman—Kentucky duo Halfway to Hazard know their core material by
heart. A Southern rock act, their dusty cowboy boots walk the line
between the full production of Rascal Flatts and the steel guitar
riffs of latter-day Bon Jovi, ...more
The The Walk
Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:28:28
The release of Hanson's fourth album may come as a surprise to the
music-buying majority for whom the brothers are no more than an
Mmmbopping footnote in chart history; in fact, ever since their 1997
hit, the trio have been delivering their own brand of melodic pop rock
to an apparently ...more
Hellyeah
Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:23:05
Hellyeah is a metal semi-supergroup born of noble intention. Following the 2004 murder of his brother and longtime Pantera/Damageplan bandmate Dimebag Darrell, drummer Vinnie Paul eventually sought a new band to make his return to music, recruiting Mudvayne's Chad Gray (vocals) and Greg Tribbett ...more
Boys and Girls in America
Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:40:53
Asbury Park has Bruce. The Twin Cities have Craig Finn, lead "singer"/lyricist of The Hold Steady, currently a Brooklyn band. Their third LP, Boys and Girls in America, is reminiscent of old school horns and swagger Springsteen but with a little dirtier mission. Imagine Hootenanny-era Westerberg at ...more
The Warning
Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:30:24
Hot Chip is one of those bands that's clearly learning on the job. Their first album, Coming On Strong, was a charmingly geeky, lo-fi exercise in British white-boy funk, full of primitive beat programming and cheeky lyrics about 20-inch rims and shiny Escalades delivered with decidedly un-gangsta ...more
No Word From Tom
Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:04:45
They are words that make diehard fans swoon and casual fans groan: "Outtakes, Covers, Demos, Live Recordings & Rarities." Such is the subtitle of Hem's No Word From Tom, an odds-and-sods collection that finds some new angles on old songs and reemphasizes the graceful beauty of the band's earlier ...more
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