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<title>Sigur Ros</title>
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<category>Post-Rock</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 7 Dec 2009 10:13:42 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sigur Ros may not realize they're the kings of post-Shoegazer (sorry, Mogwai), but perhaps that's a good thing. This Icelandic outfit creates interplanetary soundscapes that make Slowdive sound like Motorhead. Moaning guitars weep and howl over textured, ether-soaked guitar effects as an androgynous singer coos and croons wistful melodies of pure soul. Sigur Ros create the kind of transcendental music for those who appreciate aural escapism and white noise. Their songs somehow sound and feel like coming down softly upon endless Arctic sheets -- you clear off some snow from the surface to discover blue lights shining from beneath the ice. If ghosts get to listen to music, don't think for a second that they subscribe to the gloomy Goth ethic. It would make sense if Sigur Ros topped the music charts for afterlife listeners.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Mazzy Star</title>
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<category>Dream Pop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:19:29 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[No, Mazzy Star isn't the lead singer. That honor belongs to Hope Sandoval, whose Melanie-on-downers vocals manage to sound at once angelic and abandoned to lust. Hers is a voice that enfolds listeners in warm, velvety wings, rocking them into languid, erotic daydreams. On "Fade Into You," the band's most noteworthy single, Sandoval and guitarist David Roback perfectly realize their attempts to fuse droning psychedelic folk with lonesome cowboy flourishes. By embellishing the abject minimalism of Nick Drake's <I>Pink Moon</I> material with pedal steel and harmonica, Mazzy Star hit upon a sound that is rustic without quite sounding country. It serves as the perfect format for Sandoval, whose mournful, misguided-angel vocals can sound as lonely as a leaf swept through empty streets, or a feather adrift in a world made of rain. This is music you'll want to listen to alone -- with a box of tissue nearby.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>American Analog Set</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:55:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[These post-adolescent Shoegazers might be as exciting to watch as a Low concert, but if you take them home and chill to this music you will be pleasantly surprised. What sets the American Analog Set apart from the new generation of footwear-studying enthusiasts is that they exude a refreshingly original take on Dream Pop and Noise Rock rather than regurgitating what came from Thames Valley, England, ten years ago (sorry, Mogwai). Tripled-up, one-string electric guitar arrangements and hushed vocals work well with wistful tones and melodies you could just cry to.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Pernice Brothers</title>
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<category>Baroque Pop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:25:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With a silky, warm voice similar to the Zombies' Colin Blunstone's richly textured vocal ribbons, Joe Pernice has made one of the best records to come out of Sub Pop's roster since his other band, the Scud Mountain Boys, released <i>Massachusetts</i>. Much like their stylistic peers Wilco, Pernice has left behind the Gram Parsons reference point for pure Pop arrangements that tap into the symphonic studies of Brian Wilson and (more closely) Burt Bacharach. Pernice's songs have a backlit mood that pours out from his changes and heartfelt romantic Pop musings. Where the songs of the Scud Mountain Boys embraced "Know" Depression, the Pernice Brothers play songs that juxtapose optimistic instrumental sounds with melancholy lyrics.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Red House Painters</title>
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<category>Slowcore</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:14 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The palpable sadness that forms the heart of most every Red House Painters song is precisely what makes each of them ineffably beautiful, haunting, and compelling. Mark Kozelek uses his music as a means of emotional purging, turning his own raw feelings into delicately arranged songs that reveal his often dispirited mental state. Weaving sparse, hushed acoustics with minimal piano playing, weary, down-tempo drumming and Kozelek's own sullen, introspective vocals, songs are confessional pieces that subtly convey emptiness and express melancholy. It's ironic that such lovely songs can possess such disquietingly somber feelings.
- Kali Holloway]]></description>
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<title>Mark Kozelek</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:40:55 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Seminal San Francisco singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek of Red House Painters goes solo and spreads out the beauty of toneful guitar wash, releasing lush walls of comforting sonic textures with all the warmth of an electric blanket on a rainy Sunday morning. But it is the unfeigned sincerity of his wistful, breathy and textured vocals that has the power to either melt polar ice caps or birth them (imagine an even more heavyhearted Nick Drake). Kozelek's own pensive love songs often walk the line between poetic revering and bruised, melancholic laments that seem to rise from the heavy repercussions of the heart's trials and tribulations. It is here where Kozelek emits his most intense performances, letting the listener into his "cold, solitary kingdom," as he once sang.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Low</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:00:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Keep on the shelf next to your kava root extract, melatonin and "Sleepy Time" tea. The downy-soft sounds of Low can be soporific, but if you're willing to fend off a few yawns for a closer listen, this band offers a rich return in the purely sublime. Lovely, gossamer fare perfect for marking the southerly migration of raindrops down your bedroom window. Music so delicate, you'll find yourself involuntarily holding your breath lest a mere exhalation muddle its placid surface. Drums consist of little more than a cymbal set atremble and a feather-dusted snare. Guitars stretch themselves, but never fully awake from their Lotus slumbers. Your listening mind slows to endure the chill, curling up next to Mimi Parker's and Alan Sparhawk's breathy vocals for their residual warmth. <I>Long Division</I> (1995) was a defining moment for Slowcore, and since then Low have continued to richen and mature without changing their minimalist approach.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Galaxie 500</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Considered legendary by many Indie Pop purists and record collectors; the sad music of the long-since-defunct Galaxie 500 put the breaks on the pristine, upbeat, Jangle Pop that swept through college radio stations of the late Â80s. Bearing some similarity to contemporaries Rain Parade, Galaxie 500 took the Neo-Psychedelic bent of Los Angeles' paisley underground, slowed it down, and bummed it out. Simple arrangements of somber, dreamy chord progressions and the distinctive warble of singer Dean Wareham's falsetto crawl along, creating sad, slow, emotive songs with a dark sort of kinetic energy. Something of a luminary himself, Wareham put pen to paper again in the more upbeat Luna with members of critically acclaimed Indie Pop bands like the Chills and the Feelies. Decidedly lighter, Luna's brand of shimmery, guitar-oriented pop is noteworthy, but approaches sonically neither the intensity nor sparse desolation of Galaxie 500.
- Kelly Bauman]]></description>
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<title>Songs: Ohia</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:24:33 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Heartbreaking music for heartbroken people who dig wallowing. Songs: Ohia's music isn't so predictably mopey, like the many other bands who try to affect that certain style. In fact, the most charming aspect of their songs is that they seem to just naturally come out this way. The music is pseudo-mathematical in a sly Indie style, but the band's passionate playing goes above and beyond any rhythmically calculated quadratic equations. Jason Molina's fragile, throw-in-the-towel singing is what really gives this music its true soul.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Calla</title>
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<title>Beach House</title>
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<description><![CDATA[With a knack for languid, ambient pop songs, Beach House quickly received national attention after forming officially in Baltimore in 2005. But French-born vocalist and keyboard player Victoria Legrand and guitarist Alex Scully knew each other long before that; they had played and played music together as kids while growing up in Baltimore, Philadelphia and France. For a short time they were members of a Baltimore electro outfit called the Daggerhearts, but the duo soon began writing and recording on their own. They received a boost by having their song "Apple Orchard" included on a Pitchfork compilation, which catapulted their Nico-esqe sensibility into the hearts of music bloggers around the globe. Their eponymous debut was issued in October of 2006 on the Carpark label.
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<title>Lungfish</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There has never been, is not, and likely will never be a band like Lungfish. Though their sound is deceptively simple, they assert a complex, striking presence. Repetitive basslines and drumming snake a rhythm into your head, while the guitar leads the way as it burrows further into your brain. Once firmly rooted, the vocals explode lengthy strings of words -- some call it gibberish, others see it as the ciphered insight of a genius. Lungfish's presence of power is hauntingly beautiful and undeniably unique.
- Mark Murrmann]]></description>
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<title>Scud Mountain Boys</title>
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<category>Alt Country</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 8 Jul 2009 13:08:43 -0700</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">Scud Mountain Boys</rhap:artist>
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<description><![CDATA[Every singer should be jealous of Joe Pernice's voice. Whether he's singing over the medicated Americana soundscapes of the Scud Mountain Boys or on the more Bacharach-influenced Pernice Brothers songs, his whisper-tone inflections bring to mind the bittersweet textured vocals of The Zombies' Colin Blunstone. These are some of the best recordings ever made in the genre of alt country -- so good the genre specification almost seems inappropriate. Although the band prefer to DIY record in someone's kitchen, the warm production here almost seems like it was doctored in a laboratory. Scud Mountain Boys' songs are down-tempo, downcast laments of heartbreak and lovelorn loss. Make no mistake, this music is not so much No Depression as it is <i>Know</i> Depression. For those who appreciate artists who bleed into their songs, here's a wonderful little hemorrhage of pastoral music for you.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Maquiladora</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:25:17 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Fans of the desert music of Giant Sand and Calexico should be drooling all over Maquiladora -- and some probably do -- but chances are the San Diego trio's stealthy profile has evaded their radars. Although the band has released two full lengths, <i>What the Day Was Dreaming</i> and the masterful <i>A House All On Fire</i>, on indie stalwart Darla Records, Maquiladora has remained staunchly DIY and rather media-shy since coming together in the mid '90s. Back then, the group was a loose knit collective, experimenting with a prickly brand of Americana filtered through hushed post-rock. (Or is that the other way around?) By the release of their 1998 debut, <i>The Lost Works of Eunice Phelps</i>, Maquiladora's line-up was set: Eric Nielsen, Phil Beaumont and Bruce McKenzie -- all three singer-songwriters. Over the course of five albums and two EPs, Maquiladora have refined their sound, dipping that post-rock Americana into a cloudy bath rippling with classic West Coast lysergia. There's some Band-inspired twang in there for sure, but ultimately the band likes to venture to the outer rings of Saturn (to visit Pink Floyd?) then return to Earth and land underneath the star-flecked skies of the Mojave.
- Justin Farrar]]></description>
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<title>Idaho</title>
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<category>Slowcore</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:57:24 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This seminal Slowcore band has been together since 1991, serving as a cathartic vehicle for singer-songwriter Jeff Martin (the only original member of the band). His songs are melancholic musings that devour space and time through whispered vocals and chiming guitars in alternate tunings that often harmonize with female backing vocals.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Bedhead</title>
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<category>Slowcore</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:13:22 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Although known mostly as a slow, mournful band that makes music to use depressants by, they can create heavier -- though equally strange -- upbeat, distorted guitar music. They never deviate too far from their sleep-inducing roots, however.
- Will Lerner]]></description>
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<title>Hayden</title>
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<category>Slowcore</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:14:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[More influenced by Neil Young than Palace, Indie Singer-Songwriter Hayden writes gloomy, moody and beautifully paced cathartic songs performed at a snail's pace. His acoustic guitar strums are as hypnotizing as his wistful, watery harmonies and the reverberating tremolo of his electric six-string. Hayden's realm of space and time seems much different from that of his contemporaries; he tends to incorporate silence, ambient sounds and pauses. Using silent bridges and 45 minutes of drizzly rainfall, Hayden's innovative songwriting appeals to listeners willing to take a chance. Some may compare him to Dinosaur Jr.'s J. Mascis or Palace's Will Oldham, but such comparisons are merely a cerebral shortcut. First of all, he can sing. And second of all, he can sing <I>well</I>.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Codeine</title>
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<category>Slowcore</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:13:30 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Codeine's 1990 Sub Pop debut was a seminal document in Slowcore. Predictably, clever critics leapt to the blatantly obvious comparisons between the band's music and the effects of the drug referred to in the band's name -- both were slow, murky, soporific. These same critics neglected to mention, however, that there is nothing analgesic about Codeine's songs. Each is ballasted by a heavy load of leaden remorse and existential gloom. Guitar notes tend to linger like the peals of a funeral bell, while the drumming never achieves any more focus than the random, aimless pops and cracks of an old house on a windy night. Although at times they suffer from a monochromatic grayness, Codeine's songs impact like great tragedy when you're in the right mood for them. At such times, even the lyricist's most mundane observations bristle with a static charge of mystery, and every word leaves his lips pregnant with significance.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Piano Magic</title>
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<category>Slowcore</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:25:13 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Slow, gloomy and overtly arty, Piano Magic lumber along bearing ominous basslines, delicate guitar parts, and image-laden, Ian Curtis-on-a-rainy-day vocals. The singer's high voice sounds as if it could break, giving a sweet quality to the overriding melancholia.
- Will Lerner]]></description>
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<title>Ida</title>
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<category>Slowcore</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:54:19 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Much of Ida's signature sound can be heard in the tight, close harmonies of its founding duo, Daniel Littleton and Elizabeth Mitchell, who started playing together in Brooklyn in 1992. They were soon joined by Karla Schickele and Daniel's younger brother, Michael "Miggy" Littleton, who left the group in 1999, the same year Littleton and Mitchell married. Their discography begins with 1994's <i>Tales Of Brave Ida</i> and continued through the '90s with a number of releases which attracted a wide national following. Discography highlights include 2000's <i>Will You Find Me</i> and 2005's <i>Heart Like A River</i>. Mitchell has also released a small handful of critically acclaimed children's records.
- Nate Cavalieri]]></description>
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<title>Harvey Milk</title>
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<category>Slowcore</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:40:20 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With no affiliation to the slain San Francisco politician, Boston's Harvey Milk deliver enormous drums and even larger guitars that creep up slowly. At times plodding and melancholy, they run the gamut from sparse beauty to full blown classic rock eardrum assault. Vocals oscillate between a bedroom whisper and the roar of an incensed caveman.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>Spain</title>
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<category>Slowcore</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Fronted by Josh Haden, son of jazz legend Charlie Haden, Spain make slow melancholic music for rainy days and Mondays. Sparse tempos give their songs a slow-paced, underwater momentum.]]></description>
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<title>Neva Dinova</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:35:44 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>The New Year</title>
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<category>Slowcore</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:32:27 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Songs Of Green Pheasant</title>
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<category>New Folk</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:51:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Goes Cube</title>
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<category>Alt/Punk</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 08:25:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>The Sonora Pine</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:57 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Sonora Pine are a supergroup side project of sorts, founded by Tara Jane O'Neil (Retsin/ex-Rodan) and Sean Meadows (June of '44/Lungfish), and augmented by members of Pacer and Experimental Rock trio Rachel&#8217;s. Plodding, meandering guitars spawn a cascade of melodies that carry an underlying sense of urgency to each of the songs, while methodical chord progressions are packed with distortion workouts, often tilting and swaying with the percussion. Meadow&#8217;s desperate vocals create an overriding sense of isolation, further focusing the band&#8217;s insistent noise. The track featured here comes from their self-titled debut, released in 1995 and produced by Shellac bassist Robert Weston.
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<title>Christie Front Drive</title>
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<category>Emo/Hardcore</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 7 Jun 2009 07:59:43 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Kind Of Like Spitting</title>
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<category>Emo/Hardcore</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:33:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Choked-up vocals and broken down, drumming-with-tears-in-my-eyes rhythms. These beautiful but hopelessly forlorn songs are suffused with hurts-so-good suffering. Buy a box of Kleenex and leave these folks on continuous play if you have recently been dumped, fired, disinherited or all of the above
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Smog</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 3 May 2009 08:34:06 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Seminal Indie Rock musician and 4-track revolutionary Bill Callahan breathes man-made life into his music that resides under the Smog moniker. Callahan's insulated underworld is animated by his ability to layer disturbing soundscapes next to aural pleasures in a disjointed portal to his pseudo-neurotic, nostalgia-absorbing, melancholic mind and lovelorn way of life. The music here is a sonic orchestra of come-down melodies and splintered atmospheric fragments that are carefully stitched together like a successfully operating, musical Frankenstein's monster. His is the soundtrack for throwing in the towel.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Radar Brothers</title>
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<category>Dream Pop</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:33:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Radar Bros. is the project of Jim Putnam (ex-Medicine, Maids of Gravity) which veers away from the former's noisy soundscapes and ends up more like a stripped-down version of the latter's psychedelic pop. Radar Bros.' winsome, windswept, countrified pop bounces up and down the California coastline with sun bleached harmonies and fading piano keys. Tracks suck you into a free-floating, wistful world filled with hazy, poetic imagery; invoking a sense of fragile eloquence with rhythms so sparse, they border on desolate. The water that's being piped into Los Angeles, allowing bands such as the Radar Bros. and Acetone to grow, needs worldwide distribution.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>Pete Krebs</title>
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<category>Folk-Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:57 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Pete Krebs' often detuned indie Folk Rock is organically comprised of the best songwriting elements. High plains drifting country leads a la David Roback weave in and out of intimately whispered vocal harmonies and heartbreaking lyrics. Krebs' second album <i>Western Electric,</i> was produced by tunesmith Elliott Smith. Much like Smith, Krebs' songs reflect on love gone bad without reverting to simple "woe is me" shortcuts. Although many of his lyrics are a bit obscure and fragmented, they still convey a helpless desperation that is beautifully expressed.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Antarctica</title>
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<category>Shoegazer</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Antarctica's Dream Pop explores the nightmares and unsettled cold of the realm of sleep. Whereas a lot of yesterday's shoegazers brought out the beauty in sad songs, Antarctica beautifully bring out the madness in sadness. Guitar sound-storms squeeze third notes out of two-note intermingling. Harmonics and harmonies lose themselves in a sea of digital delay and soaring melodies.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Victory At Sea</title>
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<category>Emo/Hardcore</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:58:34 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The power of Victory At Sea lies not in an obvious, knock-you-over-the-head guitar attack, but in a more subtle power. Their sound builds: guitars, bass and drums steamroll into a sonic gust big enough to carry you away.
- Mark Murrmann]]></description>
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<title>Sunshine Club</title>
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<category>Slowcore</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The heartfelt, whispery and sometimes droning vocal tone of Sunshine Club's Denise Bon Giovanni carries the same infectious, otherworldly mystique of Colin Blunstone (post-Zombies) or even Dusty Springfield. This down-tempo San Francisco trio create soundscapes characteristic of their foggy city's cold winter air. The band's well-written songs include catchy, lamenting ditties and long, dislocated narratives that slowly bleed into stretched-out notes and chords that come together to create a cold, solitary kingdom (as Red House Painters' Mark Kozelek might say). Perfect music for throwing in the towel.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Migala</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:58:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Jana McCall</title>
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<category>Dream Pop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Jana McCall was a member of the Seattle band Dickless in the late 1980s. While that band was one of the many whose sound predated the Grunge phenomenon, McCall's solo work shows a simpler, quieter creativity at work. Her haunting Dream Pop maintains a slow, heavy pace marked by ragged, introspective guitars and detached, resonating vocals. Waves of reverb leave you isolated on the side of a road marked only by the occasional flourish of a slide guitar. Her gloriously lethargic songs won't let up until everyone has either passed out or run off into the desert.]]></description>
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<title>Spent</title>
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<category>Emo/Hardcore</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[They're from Jersey City (and proud of it). They like sudden tempo changes, pretty boy/girl vocals, and lots of guitar interplay. They are Spent, and you will probably like them.
- Tim Quirk]]></description>
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<title>Kaitlyn ni Donovan</title>
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<category>Slowcore</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:32:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[While many contemporary singer-songwriters rely solely on the merits and wonder of their innate talents, ni Donovan peculiarly steers the attention away from her star quality voice with instrumentally ambitious constructs of interwoven, weeping Gypsy fiddles; loopy, conceptual sorts of rhythms; and a subtle vocal technique. The result is a dusty, disarmingly passionate, antiquated sort of elegance rich in artistic merit. There's no hand wrapped around the microphone stand or glass-breaking soprano to write the checks here; rather, ni Donovan's approach is a more sophisticated one, nurtured with masterful playing and keen attention to quality.
- Rosemary Pepper]]></description>
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<title>Dear Nora</title>
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<category>Slowcore</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:57:24 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Katy Davidson, the only constant member of Dear Nora, started writing songs and singing in 1996 and formed Dear Nora three years later with bassist Ryan Wise and drummer Marianna Ritchey, all of whom were studying at Portland's Lewis & Clark College. They issued a pair of self-released cassettes before releasing a self-titled seven-inch on Portland's Magic Marker Records and an EP, <i>Dreaming Out Loud</i>, which was written and recorded in a single day. In 2001, Dear Nora's debut LP, <i>We'll Have a Time</i>, was issued on Magic Marker and licensed for release in Japan. An EP, <i>The New Year</i> followed a year later. 2004's <i>Mountain Rock</i> had many of the lovely, simple elements of Davidson's early work, but mixed in so-called elements of slow core, folk and shoegazer music. In 2006 <i>There Is No Home</i> appeared, which Davidson announced would be the band's last.
- Nate Cavalieri]]></description>
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<title>Will Oldham</title>
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<category>Slowcore</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:55:26 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Rex</title>
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<category>Slowcore</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Spellbinding country-inflected Slowcore. Steadily building, low-key, Lo-Fi instrumental from cult fave Rex. Jam Rock for people who hate Jam Rock.
- Mark Murrmann]]></description>
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<title>Heather Duby</title>
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<category>Dream Pop</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:35:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">Heather Duby</rhap:artist>
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<description><![CDATA[Duby's material is achingly lovely, conveying a sense of longing and loneliness through slow tempos, spare instrumentation, and her gorgeous vocals with their tremendous range. The song "September," for instance, shuffles along with a Trip-Hop gait, evoking a rain-drenched lonely Wild West with Ennio Morricone-influenced guitar lines.
- Will Lerner]]></description>
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