If you didn't know it, the most anticipated indie album of 2011 has been from Animal Collective member Noah Lennox's solo incarnation, Panda Bear. Continue Reading...
Sleigh Bells. Derek Miller. Alexis Krauss. Good band. On tour. Go see them. Don't ask questions, just go! Full tour dates after thee jump. Continue Reading...
In his 20 or more years as a songwriter and band leader, Greg Dulli has tried time and again to answer a couple of questions: Where am I right now, and what the hell is Satan doing here whispering in my ear?
Through every incarnation of Afghan Whigs and, now, The Twilight Singers, Dulli has successfully used the raw soul of his voice as a mechanism, allowing his songs and their lyrics the freedom to pick at the scabs of his world, mismanaging his emotional stability and his relationships -- with women, with the bottle, with himself. In ...
Last year, I procrastinated heavily. I think there were a lot of good records that came out the last couple of years, but I started to think that for every record that came out, there was an equal number of these "best-of" lists being bandied about. At first I thought, "Wow, it's finally happened. Everyone's a music critic." Then, with this pervasive thought entrenched in my gourd, I started reading these other lists before making my own.
I suddenly felt small.
So deadlines for the "best of 2007" rolled around, and I was in a tailspin, dogged by ...
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