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<title>Modest Mouse</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Under the close tutelage of indie rock kingpin Calvin Johnson, Modest Mouse have cultivated a twangy, folk-tinged rock sound that is nothing less than inspiring. Blending grainy, high-pitched vocals catchy guitar hooks and an aversion to traditional rock song structures, this humble threesome churn out track after track of gut-wrenching emotive romps. Not afraid to soar from melodic acoustic ballads to screeching digressions that verge on jam rock, Modest Mouse strike a balance between musical energy and expressive candor, finding an angsty, melancholic purity that eludes other indie bands.]]></description>
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<title>Smashing Pumpkins</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Billy Corgan and his Chicago cohorts arrived just as the alternative sea-swell was crashing ashore in the early 1990s, doing so with shiny, super-produced alt rock far removed from the Pacific Northwest's guttural Grunge rumblings. Corgan's obsessive, perfectionist nature helped rear an omnipresent triumvirate of crucial albums between 1991-95, each of which grandly built upon the scope and sound of its predecessor. <I>Gish</I>, <I>Siamese Dream</I>, and <I>Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness</I> -- in addition to the myriad songs released as non-album tracks during that time -- were chiefly characterized by Corgan's vocals that could whisper one moment and wail the next, Corgan and James Iha's overdriven, buzzing, these-go-to-11 guitars, and Jimmy Chamberlin's propulsive, overwhelmingly powerful drum work that thrust "Silverf*ck," "Bury Me," and "Geek U.S.A." into fifth gear. Lineup changes and an electronica-embracing sound muddled the band's late '90s efforts, and the Pumpkins called it quits in 2000. After years of near-constant speculation, Corgan and Chamberlin partnered to reform the group in 2007, releasing the bombastic <i>Zeitgeist</i> and returning to the world stage.
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<title>Pixies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the alternative rock family tree, a big fat line runs from the Pixies directly to the chart-smashing noise pop and grunge that Nirvana broke with in 1991. <i>Surfer Rosa</i>, the Pixies' 1988 full-length debut of skronked-out, surf-damaged punk-pop, was a revelation to just about everyone who heard it. At first listen the remedial chord progressions, utterly nonsensical lyrics, and bizarre delivery sounded like the flailings of inept college rockers with a psychotropic casualty for a lead singer, but once the hooks were in, there was no escape. The Bostonians reminded everyone how to write a perfect, repetitive song that you knew by heart two seconds in. With wonder-twin powers Black Francis and Kim Deal writing paeans to sexually charged dementia, an idiosyncratic guitar sound, and what sounded like the Jolly Green Giant playing drums, the Pixies took the alt-rock world by storm, releasing four near-perfect records before self-destructing under the weight of their own talent, in 1993, after opening U2's Zoo TV tour. In their wake, Deal went full-time with her side-project the Breeders and began working on <i>Last Splash</i>, which would eventually go gold in the U.S., and Black -- as Frank Black -- starting penning a solo eponymous debut, which didn't fair so well. In 2004 -- with disparate and storied careers -- Deal, Black Francis, Joey Santiago and David Lovering reunited for a North American tour and several dates at European summer festivals. The group is currently rumored to be working on a new studio album, the first since 1991.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Band Of Horses</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 1 Jan 2010 10:23:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Band of Horses formed after the demise of Seattle favorites Carrisa's Wierd, an orchestral indie band with melancholy folk roots. Together for 10 years, they had a devoted following, but never managed to extend that local adoration beyond the edges of the Pacific Northwest. After the bust up, drummer Ben Bridwell (who had never written a song, ever) started writing and playing around town as simply Horses, eventually convincing former Carissa songwriter and frontman Mat Brooke to join him when he opened for an Iron & Wine gig. That event solidified the bearded duo, as the core members of Band of Horses, along with tipping them off (via I&W's Sam Beam) to their eventual new home at Sub Pop Records. With former drummer Bridwell now stepping forward to take the lead, with Brooke on bass, Band of Horses manage to retreat from any previous band memories by ditching their former dark orchestrations to expose an aching waft of twanging guitars that drift effortlessly into dream pop. While compared to groups like My Morning Jacket (who also choose not to shave, create a similar musical mood and wear their Neil Young influences proudly), Band of Horses lean much heavier on the positive, with an inspirational reverb that elevates even their more somber subjects. Their full-length Sub Pop debut,<I>Everything All The Time,</I> was released in 2006, and that's more than enough reason to start a stampede.
- Michele K-Tel]]></description>
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<title>Spoon</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 1 Jan 2010 10:23:44 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Austin, Texas-based Spoon began as an indie rock band heavily influenced by the jarring melodic dissonance and loud-soft dynamics of the Pixies, but by the early 2000s had developed its own sound and style owing as much to angular British punk-era bands like Wire and Gang of Four as to the music of the Nineties alternative boom. The band is known as much for its heroic perseverance in the face of major-label abandonment when it became a mainstream success after moving back to an independent record label.
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Singer, guitarist and primary songwriter Britt Daniel formed Spoon &#8212; named for a song by the German experimental band Can &#8212; in 1993 along with drummer Jim Eno, guitarist Greg Wilson and bassist Andy McGuire. The following year, the band released a seven-inch EP, <I>Nafarious</I>, on the small indie label Fluffer Records. Spoon caught the attention of the larger indie label Matador Records, on which the band released its first full-length disc, <I>Telephono</I>, in 1996. The album was hailed by critics and fans of indie rock, and the band soon found itself being courted by the major label Elektra Records. The group’s 1998 Elektra debut, <I>A Series of Sneaks</I>, was an artistic leap for the band and that album, too, was championed by critics. But Sneaks didn’t sell as quickly as Elektra wanted, and the label abandoned Spoon just four months after the album’s release. Disheartened by Elektra executives Ron Laffitte, who had signed the band, and CEO Sylvia Rhone, Spoon wrote two songs questioning their ethics: “The Agony of Laffitte” and “Laffitte Don’t Fail Me Now.”
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Spoon’s major-label woes didn’t stop Daniel and company from continuing to write and record, and in 2001 the band signed with North Carolina indie label Merge Records. Spoon’s first Merge album, <I>Girls Can Tell</I> (Number 46 Top Independent Albums, 2001), and its follow-up, <I>Kill the Moonlight</I> (Number 23 Top Independent Albums, 2002), both outsold the band’s previous two discs. When one of <I>Moonlight</I>’s tracks, “The Way We Get By,” appeared in the popular teen TV show <I>The O.C.</I>, Spoon got a measure of mainstream attention. <I>Gimme Fiction</I> (Number 44 pop, 2005), the group’s highly anticipated follow-up, was three years in the making and wound up selling 160,000 copies. The next year, Daniel co-wrote the soundtrack for the Will Ferrell comedy <I>Stranger than Fiction</I>. Also that year, Merge reissued the group’s first album together with its 1997 EP, <I>Soft Effects</I>. When <I>Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga</I> (Number Ten pop, 2007) came out to raves, Spoon went on the late-night TV circuit, including an appearance on <I>Saturday Night Live</I> where they performed the single “The Underdog” (Number 26 Modern Rock, 2007) and “You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb.” A second single, “Don’t You Evah,” reached Number 33 on the Modern Rock chart in 2008.
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<title>The Flaming Lips</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Seven years into their career, things changed monumentally in 1990 for Oklahoma City's the Flaming Lips with the release of their seminal <i>In a Priest Driven Ambulance.</i> Fusing only bits of their endearing, off-kilter indie rock into a sonically intense and more innovative fuzzcraft of mid-tempo songs and walls of neo-psychedelic guitar drone, <i>IPDA</i> offered up such memorable pop thunder as "Unconsciously Screamin'" "Rainin' Babies" and "Mountainside." Their songwriting having drastically improved, each completed song brought new, succinct arrangements and different chord progressions -- yet the album as a whole had an incredibly loud, distinctive sound. Subsequent albums like <i>Hit to Death in the Future Head</i> and <i>Transmissions from the Satellite Heart</i> began yet another chapter in the Lips' ever-transforming career, employing more selectively the relentless yet blissful bombast of <i>IPDA</i> into beautifully orchestrated, stripped-down mega-productions of pristine guitar twinkle and LSD-impaired Beach Boys harmonies. (<I>Transmissions</I> also spawned the Lips' big moment in the mainstream sun with the ubiquitous "She Don't Use Jelly.") Since the untimely departure of guitarist/noise enthusiast Ronald Jones, the Flaming Lips have resembled more a pop-deconstructionist science fair than a rock band, with drummer Steven Drozd and founder Wayne Coyne working as synched-up visionaries rather than contributing members of the same band. 1999's <i>The Soft Bulletin</i> found them again on the cusp of disciplinary mastery, incorporating their bent inclinations and atmospherics even more subtly into their strangely familiar and narcotic brand of pop, while donning character costumes on stage. Their next release, <i>Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots</i> followed the same path, albeit with even brighter production and a greater attention to detail. At its core, however, the record was a mediation on love, death and the assurance is life after almost unendurable psychic pain. On the Oklahoma City band's 2006 opus <i>At War With The Mystics</i>, spiritual leader and sonic ringmaster Coyne shows the sheer depth of his profundity when he casts his baleful eye outward, focusing his laser vision on current events; pointing a sharp stick at frothy pop icons, superficial thinkers, the abuse of power-both personal and political-and fanaticism wherever it shows up in culture. Their songs show that there's a lot more going on underneath those pink bunny suits than we ever imagined.
- Rachel Devitt]]></description>
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<title>Dinosaur Jr.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Many folks believe that Dinosaur Jr were responsible for bringing Classic Rock influences to the Indie Rock realm. From the band's earliest works (when Sebadoh's Lou Barlow was still involved and the "Jr" had yet to be tagged onto the band's moniker) to their more recent releases, Dinosaur Jr have always featured a blistering, tube-burning, fed-back lead guitar layered over sonic landscapes. Following Barlow's publicly melodramatic departure, Dinosaur Jr began to grow in a more interesting way: the music matured toward well-crafted song arrangements and slack-anthem melodies and left behind the Punk-influenced temper tantrums. Frontman and six-string strangler J. Mascis is the core of Dinosaur Jr -- his lackadaisical voice and enervated vibe breathe character into the band's gritty tones. With his high-pitched crooning and leads that break up when the pick hits the string, Mascis has been dubbed by many the bastard son of Neil Young.
- Chris Slater]]></description>
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<title>Pavement</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pavement's 1992 debut LP <I>Slanted and Enchanted</I> was an instant sensation, helping to establish Lo-Fi as one of the preeminent subgenres of Indie Rock. Their unique, raggedly endearing sound -- shambling vocals attached to both pop hooks and discordant, repetitive rhythms colored by low fidelity production and bursts of noisy guitar -- has elevated them to deity status in the Indie community. They've done much to promote the Lo-Fi sound in the meantime, gaining an increasingly widespread cult following while occasionally breaking into the alternative mainstream.
- Will Lerner]]></description>
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<title>The Jesus and Mary Chain</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On a list of the most influential records recorded in the '80s, someone would be hard pressed not to include somewhere in the top five the Jesus and Mary Chain's staggering debut, <I>Psychocandy</I>. Influential beyond measure, it threw together walls of white feedback with angelic Beach Boys and Byrds-ian harmonies and the independent music world is still aping it. Their growth since that record has been marked by ups and downs and some might say, by a lack of growth at all. They've gone from confrontational noise to sample-heavy alterna-hits, to acoustic bliss and back to noise again. The brothers Reid (Jim and William) have not been known to deny their influence and continue their onstage feuding: drunken assaults amidst a smattering of occasional strung-out brilliance and too-often sameness.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>The Breeders</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As a band, the Breeders never seemed to equal the sum of its parts. Originally containing former Throwing Muse Tanya Donelly and erstwhile Pixie Kim Deal, the band's first album was an eccentric diversion through Noise Pop terrain that included a stab at Lennon/McCartney's "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" and the guitar pop pleasers "Glorious" and "Iris." After Donelly's departure, Deal and company recorded a second full-length album which, though less consistent, turned out to be the band's commercial breakthrough. The stop and grind guitars and Deal's now giddy/now testy vocals in "Cannonball" were the toast of the mid-'90s girl band revival.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Sloan</title>
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<category>Power Pop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 1 Jan 2010 10:23:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When it comes to perfect pop songs -- the kind that make you want to hum along and nod agreeably with each tantalizing chord -- Sloan have produced some of the best this side of the Beatles. Over the course of their evolution, they've made modest forays into noise pop (<i>Smeared</i>); produced hooky, true-blue classic pop (<i>One Chord to Another</i>); and delivered classic rock-influenced, slightly dirtied power pop (<i>Navy Blues</i>) with the same satisfying end results. Once their secret gets out, maybe Sloan will achieve the success they so deserve outside of their native Canada. Until then, they remain Halifax's most wonderful, engaging secret.
- Kali Holloway]]></description>
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<title>Nada Surf</title>
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<category>Noise Pop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 1 Jan 2010 10:23:16 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Though they practice restraint by not letting the vocals and guitars explode with the edgy energy that's clearly present, Nada Surf's songs are tightly wound balls of nervous electrons, constantly moving, buzzing and colliding. The hushed vocals and swarming guitars build an added anxiousness that make it impossible to turn away once you let yourself become engulfed in their music.
- Mark Murrmann]]></description>
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<title>Husker Du</title>
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<category>Noise Pop</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:24:37 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In 1979, three Minneapolis record store kids formed a punk band and named it after a Swedish board game. Husker Du never made wheelbarrows full of money, but their importance and influence far outstripped the band's nine-year lifespan. Husker Du's first album, 1982's <I>Land Speed Record</I>, initiated their uncompromising sonic assault, and they never let up. Bob Mould and Grant Hart wrote tight pop gems, covering them with a guitar noise that other bands are still trying to imitate. Mould battered and strummed his Flying V guitar and shouted his frustration to the world, Hart pounded double time and stretched his vocal chords from behind the kit, and Greg Norton built a wide foundation of buzzing, relentless bass.<br><br>They seemed to get better with every passing year, and after a slew of exceptional records they signed with a major label, Warner Bros., for 1986's <I>Candy Apple Grey</I> and '87's double-LP <I>Warehouse: Songs and Stories</I>. But the group disintegrated within a year and a half as drugs, self-destruction and tensions within the group took their toll in classic rock 'n' roll fashion. Wrapping angst, abandon, and well-crafted pop songs up in a furious guitar squall, Husker Du unwittingly created the template for indie rock -- they made a sound and a legend that continues to haunt the alternative rock world to this day.
- Chris Slater]]></description>
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<title>The Fall</title>
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<category>Post-Punk</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:24:10 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Mark E. Smith & Co. (aka the Fall) have managed to maintain a twenty-two-year career, a legion of rabid fans, a host of challenging and influential albums, and serendipitously have dipped their little toes into the mainstream of the mighty music river. Possessing a deadly wit, scathing sociopolitical commentary, and a sing-speak vocal style that is one of the most distinct in rock 'n' roll, singer-songwriter Smith surrounded himself with like-minded provocateurs. Simple, yet extremely edgy beats spur on minimalist riffs and off-kilter melody lines develop through dissonant, atonal harmonies that always maintain a spirit of exuberant mischief. Even when the music was at its most abrasive and noisy, bassist Steve Hanley and ringleader Smith managed to keep the songs driving and danceable.
- Will Lerner]]></description>
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<title>Tripping Daisy</title>
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<category>Noise Pop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 1 Jan 2010 10:23:44 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I know the Flaming Lips. I've met the Flaming Lips. And you, sirs, are no Flaming Lips. But you get bonus points for ambition: Baroque creations featuring stacked guitars, sweet harmonies, several sections within each song and assorted odd noisemaking devices.
- Tim Quirk]]></description>
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<title>Beulah</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:55:44 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[San Francisco's pride and joy, Beulah keep hope alive for lovers of pure pop and its resulting euphoria. Combining shrewd songwriting and a youthful wide-eyed energy with arrangements culled from the songbooks of everyone from the early Bee Gees to latter day peers like the Apples in Stereo, Beulah maximize their laidback interplay of sweet vocals, trombones, and tablas to glorious results. Whereas their peers can be caught up in focusing on a niche (i.e. psychedelia or quirkiness), Beulah's songs seem a natural extension. Possessing that great songwriting ability that lends itself to familiarity but is ultimately original, Beulah write pop songs that you always knew existed; you just didn't know where to find them.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>The Notwist</title>
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<category>Krautrock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:20:38 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Though few Americans heard of them until they buffed down their most clattery Teutonic edges, the Bavarian-bred Notwist have long been a definitive German band, serving as an intersection of any number of sprockety sonic streams. Revolving around brothers Markus and Michael Acher, the band materialized near Munich at the end of the '80s as an only slightly off-kilter punk power trio. But by 1995's <i>12</i>, the Notwist were putting fanciful dystopian machine worlds on their CD covers, stretching song lengths, and creating an intermittently string-sectioned and increasingly spacious species of doomsday art-rock, as indebted to early Metallica as to Can; an impossibly sad and sweet 1994 cover of Robert Palmer's forgotten electro-pop track "Johnny and Mary" proved a clear turning point. In 1997, the band added a keyboardist, and before long was collaborating with techno artists. As they upped the glitch quotient on 1998's <i>Shrink</i> and especially 2002's critic-approved <i>Neon Golden</i>, indie fans outside Europe took notice. If <i>The Devil, You + Me</i> got less attention six years later, that says more about hipster fickleness than any slippage on the Notwist's part.
- Chuck Eddy]]></description>
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<title>The Whigs</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:06:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Deerhoof</title>
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<category>Noise Pop</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:55:01 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[San Francisco sugar and spazz noise-pop band Deerhoof formed in 1994 from Nitre Pit guitarist Rob Fisk and drummer Greg Saunier. Their quirky No Wave sound was augmented in 1996 by the addition of Japanese singer and bassist Satomi Matsuzaki, who contributed a childlike timbre that makes or breaks many a potential Deerhoof fan. They released <I>The Man, The King, The Girl</I> in 1997 and <i>Holdy Paws</I> in 1999. Fisk then left to form 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, prompting <I>Half Bird,</I> a rarities album of material from their earliest years. John Dieterich took over guitar duties and recorded 2002's <I>Reveille</I>, the first of the band's albums to reach a sizable indie audience. Second guitarist Chris Cohen joined in time for 2003's <i>Apple O.</i> <i>Milk Man,</I> the band's 2004 album, was a concept album about a banana-wielding character drawn by artist Ken Kagami. An MP3-only record, <I>Bibidi Badibi Boo</I>, and EP </I>Green Cosmos</i> followed. In November 2005, <i>Runners Four</i> was released.
- Daphne Carr]]></description>
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<title>Frank Black</title>
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<category>Noise Pop</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:43:20 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Former head honcho of the influential Pixies, Frank Black has experienced hit-and-miss success since breaking up his old band in 1993. Though prolific in terms of his overall solo output, Black has yet to surpass expectations thrust upon him at the outset of his solo career. That's not to slag the quality of his post-Pixies material, however -- Black has concocted some of the most criminally underappreciated, guitar-spiked alt-rock of the '90s, often lacing his songs with sneaky hooks and odd tempo changes here and there to keep the indie crowd on its toes. Black may not command the same star presence that he did in the Pixies' heydey when he went by the more abrasive moniker "Black Francis," but his solo music is still out there on the edge, taking chances and causing its creator to sweat up more of a storm than ever onstage -- no small feat.
- Charles Hodgkins]]></description>
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<title>Sebadoh</title>
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<category>Lo-Fi</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 2 May 2009 10:10:59 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Credited for bringing 1990s Lo-Fi culture into the mainstream, Sebadoh was one of the more prolific and engaging bands of this media-inspired movement. The influence of their off-the-cuff, bashed out fits of heart-on-your-sleeve pop juvenilia and pot inspired, noisy experimentation cannot be understated. Held in such high regard at one time, tunesmith Lou Barlow -- the tortured bard of Indie Rock -- penned some truly engaging, intensely personal songs with disarmingly direct and poignant boy-meets-girl lyrics. Predictably enough, many of those once obsessed with the broken down charm of such pop anthems such as "Rebound," "Social Medicine," and "Soul and Fire" have left the building, leaving Barlow & Co. right back where they started: Lo-Fi.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Remy Zero</title>
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<category>Contemporary Hard Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:13:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Largely overlooked Los Angeles by-way-of Birmingham, Ala., Remy Zero have always been a dark horse in the ÃÂ90s race for guitar-driven world domination. Crafty, bent guitar melodies weave themselves around singer Cinjun Tate's weepy croon and the spirit of Polvo steers the bass and drums' research into loose but intricate rhythms. Their melodic, effects-driven innovation points and shoots angularities without hesitation, creating in their best moments disarming, warped bits of picturesque pop without insulting the sensibilities of those fans of post-rock experimentation or prog-rock anti-groove. If you felt the pop magic of Polvo's earlier, more straightforward approach or Chavez's hidden love for neo-psychedelia, it's not a stretch to speculate you may find merits here.
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<title>Mum</title>
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<category>Noise Pop</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 3 Oct 2009 10:44:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The quirky, child-like melodies of mum (pronounced <I>moom</I>) are difficult to put into any one category. Like fellow Icelandic artist Bjork, mum defy labels by simply creating experimental pop music that they enjoy instead of focusing on mass appeal. Gunnar Orn Tynes and Orvar Smarason formed the Reykjavik-based ensemble in 1997. Through the years, the duo has collaborated with other Icelandic musicians and has taken an experimental approach to creating quirky music. Mum's swooning arrangements are dotted with all types of strange instruments, but they also use piano, harp and other strings to build their musical collages. Along with extensive touring around the globe, the band has taken time to remix for Goldfrapp and recently joined the National Dutch Chamber Orchestra for a live performance. Embracing their ever-changing roster of musicians, mum view themselves as a musical collective rather than a traditional band.
- Jamie Sanchez]]></description>
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<title>The Juliana Theory</title>
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<category>Emo/Hardcore</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:54:24 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Buffalo Tom</title>
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<category>Noise Pop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:23:33 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[At one point the darlings of the guitar-driven, Chuck Taylor-clad set, Buffalo Tom heralded the underdog with their heartfelt Noise Pop. Blisteringly loud guitars, struggling vocals, and an exhausted rhythm section spent their formidable years bent on making it to the finish line -- borrowing on fans' souls and sleeping on their floors along the way. Their brilliant <I>Let Me Come Over</I> LP embraced a cleaner production style, and found the band in an only slightly more controlled state of bedlam; the euphoric thunder of "Staples" and heart wrenching melancholia of "Taillights Fade" stand as testimonial. The Buffalo Tom of late has sacrificed the distortion pedals for cleaner amplification, offering miles of spotless guitar melodies and leaving room for Bill Janovitz's refined vocals. While they are no longer the Converse call-to-arms of college radio past, even BT's most lackluster efforts will always shine brighter than most.
- Kelly Bauman]]></description>
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<title>Catherine Wheel</title>
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<category>Shoegazer</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:13:27 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Catherine Wheel's six records are noisy, blissful displays of excellent pop songcraft and tasteful yet explosive guitar textures. Though the band has been largely ignored since <i>Ferment</i> (1992), their ensuing albums have shown the band moving into more complexly rhythmic, jaggedly percussive territories and embracing guitar-driven pyrotechnics with more fervency than ever. From this era of whitewashed beauty comes the outfit's most simultaneously beautiful and abrasive work to date. Sadly, without the attention and unassailable status enjoyed by the genre's definitive acts (see: My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Swervedriver), Catherine Wheel continue to evolve in the shadows for a small but devout group of fans.
- Kelly Bauman]]></description>
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<title>Team Sleep</title>
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<category>Dream Pop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:55:08 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Mclusky</title>
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<category>Noise Pop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:03:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Superchunk</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:55:24 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With Sebadoh continuously tripping themselves up, Superchunk remain one of the sole inspirations for the Indie community. Arguably one of the finest Punk-Pop bands of all time, they've been honing their craft for the past decade. Not that the sound has been polished much-- <I>No Pocky for Kitty</I> still reeks with as much energy and inventiveness as the more recent <I>Hello Hawk</I>. Fronted by Mac McCaughan's timid vocals and urgent guitars, Superchunk are one of the best realizations of the punk rock aesthetic coupled with prolific pop. No music enthusiast can exist without the powerfully anthemic "Skip Steps 1&3" or "On the Mouth." Same goes for the yearning "Throwing Things" or "Driveway to Driveway." Pretty much inventing the currency "indie-cred" by virtue of ignoring all major label advances and focusing on growing their own successful label, Merge, Superchunk have forged a career on sheer talent and will alone.]]></description>
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<title>The Waitresses</title>
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<category>New Wave</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:42:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Early New Wave band that achieved minor mainstream success in the early '80s. A solid guitar-based band, fronted by a sexy yet ferocious female vocalist.
- Erin Geiger]]></description>
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<title>Microphones</title>
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<category>Lo-Fi</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:00:06 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Phil Elvrum is the Microphones, or at least the leader who gathers together enough talented cronies to make some stunningly beautiful, twisted and simple recordings. What's one to think when a song is nothing more than two-and-one-half minutes of painfully vulnerable male/female vocals, gently picked guitar and simple rhythms underscored by scorching guitar noise that seems to be welling up from the pit of the songwriter's stomach? Other tunes find Elvrum in a more mechanistic mood, sort of like a poor man's Gary Numan: creepy, crawly Casio sounds drift across the speakers, buoyed by Moog madness and even a guitar chord here and there. But the singer's laconic voice is still there for your enjoyment and, mostly, your contemplation. Can the Microphones have fun? Well, they're certainly not afraid of having their audience dance, as one number is propelled by vaguely Latin rhythms that shift to breakbeat proportions as the female singer intones an ode to a woman named Anna. An extremely clever use of sounds, arrangements and emotions.
- Will Lerner]]></description>
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<title>Quasi</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:55:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In addition to recording and playing their own spirited, hard-hitting brand of Indie-Pop, you may recognize Quasi from their brief stints backing up Elliott Smith live, or have seen drummer Janet Weiss pounding out songs in her other band, Sleater-Kinney. Those familiar with Weiss' sharp, enthusiastic timekeeping in Sleater-Kinney get a healthy dose of it in Quasi as well. Singer/organist/guitarist Sam Coomes, propelled by both the heart on his sleeve and a wryly humorous, peculiarly morbid disposition, playfully sings through clenched teeth: "You f*cked yourself" and "We went through hell, just to get to hell." Luckily Quasi's quick, focused approach doesn't constitute a therapy session -- these songs linger only as long as it takes Coomes to whip his "Rocksichord" (overdriven organ) into a spectral swirl and Weiss to snap him out of it.]]></description>
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<title>Mercury Rev</title>
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<category>Baroque Pop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:08:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Always on the coattails of (and suffering constant comparisons to) associates the Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev have, in their own right, creatively produced cerebral, sometimes darkly atmospheric Indie Rock. Relying on orchestrations of guitars, clarinets, drums, and Jonathan Donohue's breathy, Dylan-inspired melodic rambling -- Mercury Rev stretch spatial arrangements into hyper-melodic, neo-psychedelic free-form.]]></description>
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<title>Wheat</title>
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<category>Dream Pop</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:51:48 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Wheat's music blankets the listener in womb-like comforting layers of moving sounds. Every song seems to be rooted in heartfelt laments and lovelorn longing. The band emit majestic soundscapes of samples, percussion, strings, keyboards, and otherworldly noises that are intricately arranged in a sonic escapist's fortitude. Wheat successfully blend subtle rootsy influences with sheer innovation in both studio production and song arrangement. Their songs unleash an honest and effortless poetry that drips from Scott Levesque's mouth like heaven-spun honey. Perfect music to put on a mix tape for someone who's been careless with your heart.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Sugar</title>
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<category>Noise Pop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:21:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[After the demise of Post-Punk superband Husker Du and the release of two solo records, Bob Mould formed Sugar, his most commercially successful project to date. Along with bassist David Barbe and drummer Malcolm Travis, the trio continued in the direction Husker Du were pursuing with their final two records. Though by no means soft -- earplugs were an absolute necessity at any Sugar performance -- their sound is toned-down compared to Husker's screeching desperation. Marked by shimmering, overdriven guitars met halfway by Mould's introspective monotone vocals, Sugar's songs are Mould at his best, wise but still full of angst. <I>Copper Blue</I> had a sparkling debut and earned the band a pair of radio hits; and though the harsher <I>Beaster</I> and final <I>File Under: Easy Listening</I> never quite reached the overdriven Power Pop brilliance attained with the first record, both are nonetheless testaments to the band's unique and touching songwriting style.
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<title>Shudder To Think</title>
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<category>Post-Punk</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:05:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Swervedriver</title>
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<category>Shoegazer</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:23:33 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Shoegazers Swervedriver give the Noise Pop blueprint a clean, pure pop injection. The result is music with the same delicacy, but with underlying catchy melodies. Churning guitars circle high above spacey tinklings and distant white noise echoes, and somewhere beneath, a guitar strums. Unlike music that you merely hear, Swervedriver's lovely noise surrounds you and leaves you floating in trance-inducing soundscapes.
- Kali Holloway]]></description>
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<title>Archers of Loaf</title>
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<category>Noise Pop</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:08:04 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Chief insurgents in the 1990s North Carolina guitar revolution, the Archers kicked out some of the catchiest, most ferocious pop anthems this side of Superchunk's "Throwing Things" and Guided by Voices' <i>Bee Thousand</i>. The short, sweet "Web in Front" introduced the world at large to the Archers' chiming, warped guitars (see: Polvo, Pavement) and singer/guitarist Eric Bachman's nasal, nice-punk vocal grit. Ingratiating and abstractly sociopolitical, songs like "Lowest Part is Free," "Audiowhore," and "Harnessed in Slums" qualified as full-fledged calls-to-arms for the Chuck Taylor-clad set. But even as early as their second album, songs began to foreshadow aversion to the sometimes cold waters of mainstream success. In <i>Vee Vee</i>'s "Greatest of All Time," Bachman offers a sympathetic hand to "the front man of the world's worst rock 'n' roll band" who's been placed on trial by a bunch of cigarette-smoking hipsters. The chorus resounds gravely as the jury decrees: "Throw him in the River, throw the bastard in the river." With each succeeding release the band seemed to shrink away from the accessible, eventually calling it quits altogether.
- Kelly Bauman]]></description>
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<title>Jets to Brazil</title>
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<category>Emo/Hardcore</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:30:48 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The party line on Jets to Brazil is that they're much more than a simple amalgam of the members' former bands (Jawbreaker, Texas is the Reason, Handsome and Van Pelt); in this case, those at the party have nailed it. Forging a fresh musical identity from the earnestness of Emo, the eccentricities of Indie Rock and the darker elements of pop, this NYC quartet's (originally a trio) 1998 debut sucker-punched anyone expecting a retread of Jawbreaker's visceral Punk-Pop. Blake Schwarzenbach's choppy, thirty-weight guitars, early 1980s New Wave keyboard textures (think New Order's <i>Movement</i>) and sharp, mature songwriting play catalyst for the band, providing a platform for screaming chug-alongs ("Morning New Disease"), cathartic anthems ("I Typed For Miles"), moody dirges ("Sea Anemone") and even acoustic, slightly bent love songs ("Sweet Avenue"). Finally, Schwarzenbach's shrewd lyrics continue to amaze with their graceful buoyancy, demonstrating a certain imagistic focus the Punk poet laureate began to realize on Jawbreaker's criminally underappreciated swan song <i>Dear You</i> (1995).
- Charles Hodgkins]]></description>
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<title>The Anniversary</title>
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<category>Noise Pop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:34:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Anniversary make bipolar Noise Pop that can have you sharing lollipops with your best friend one minute and pulling out her ponytails the next, and songs with moods that seesaw from bubbly New Wave/Synth Pop to cacophonous Indie Rock. You never know what's around the corner for this band, which is exactly what makes the ride such a fun one.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Jawbox</title>
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<category>Emo/Hardcore</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:40:24 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Formed from the ashes of Government Issue in 1989 by singer/guitarist J. Robbins, Jawbox broke away from the sound of their Dischord labelmates by creating dynamically diverse music that relied on start and stop bursts of music and poetic verse. Their first two full-length releases, <i>Grippe</i> and <i>Novelty</i>, would set the standard for the band's songcraft: a dual dissonant guitar attack, pounding bass and jittery drum patterns that supply the soundtrack for Robbins' disjointed, enigmatic lyrics. In 1994, the band shocked the D.C. Indie scene by leaving their independent label for major label Atlantic. The subsequent <i>Savory+3</i> EP saw Robbins turn up the intensity, using a combination of low volume passages with explosive displays of emotional intensity. The full-length follow-up that same year, <i>For Your Own Special Sweetheart</i>, displayed the band at their diverse best, but also challenged the listener. The band was at their pinnacle, often mixing Power Pop melodies with noise band sensibilities. The group disbanded in 1997.]]></description>
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<title>The Wrens</title>
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<category>Noise Pop</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:35:34 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>1990's</title>
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<category>Noise Pop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:14:22 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The 1990s are a Glasgow trio fronted by singer and guitarist Jackie McKeown, who leads the group through gritty, '60s-influenced rock and power pop. McKeown formed the project with bassist Jamie McMorrow after the demise of their former band, Yummy Fur, and eventually filled the drum seat with Michael McGaughrin. Their first single, "You Made Me Like It" was released in May of 2006 and it was followed a year later by the debut full-length LP, <i>Cookies</i>. The group dropped their sophomore album, <i>Kicks</i> in 2009.
- Nate Cavalieri]]></description>
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<title>Idlewild</title>
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<category>Brit Rock</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:32:34 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The members of Idlewild met while at a college party in Edinburgh in late 1995 and by early into the following year, the band were successfully packing student hangouts. Eventually they were given a residency at Edinburgh's Cas Rock Cafe, where each month they'd debut new songs in front of doting audiences. Armed with a newly pressed single and a handful of rave reviews about their chaotic live shows, Idlewild cemented their reputation as "ones to watch" when their record started getting airplay on Radio Scotland. Soon after, Radio One's Steve Lamacq began playing "Self Healer," and in the summer of 1997, Idlewild played their first gig in London. One-off recordings on Deceptive and Fierce Panda were followed by an avalanche of glowing press. Idlewild started 1998 on the road, which is where they spent the majority of that year. In fact, the band only stopped touring long enough to record their debut album, <I>Hope Is Important</I>. Released in October of 1998, <I>Hope Is Important</I> was supported by another U.K. tour, as well as a quick tour of the United States and Japan. With the momentum still building, the band closed out 1998 the same way they started: on the road. And when they were "toured-out," the band started writing and demoing new songs, and spent the rest of the year in the recording studio. Released in the U.K. on April 15, 2000, Idlewild's sophomore effort, <I>100 Broken Windows</I>, entered the album charts at No. 15, while its first single, "Actually It's Darkness" entered the Top Forty, garnering Idlewild the first of many appearances on <I>Top of The Pops.</I> European festival appearances were flanked by yet more tours (is this band ever at home?), and just when the year started to wind down and thoughts were turning to the next album, <I>Spin </I> proclaimed <I>100 Broken Windows</I> "the No. 1 album you didn't hear" in 2000. That was enough to finally get Captiol Records in America on board, and <I>100 Broken Windows</I> saw the light of day Stateside in April 2001. And what came next? More tours! The band finished up their American tour with a sizzling performance of "Little Discourage" on <I>The David Letterman Show</I>, and headed back home to work on songs for album number three. Idlewild spent the remainder of 2001 in the Scottish highlands writing and demoing songs, which were recorded the following year. In the end, our road warriors had taken an unprecedented year-and-a-half break from touring! <I>The Remote Part</I> hit record store shelves in March, 2003 and was bolstered by a stunning video by acclaimed German filmmaker Wim Wenders. Massive tours with both Coldplay and Pearl Jam exposed Idlewild to their largest live audiences to date, and ended up being excellent practice what came next: no sooner were Idlewild back in the U.K. for the summer festival season when the Rolling Stones came knocking. Idlewild opened for the Stones in Glasgow that September, capping off one of the most exciting and fruitful years for the band. As is their habit, Idlewild started of 2004 in the Scottish highlands, writing and demoing songs for the next album, which was recorded in Los Angeles over the summer of 2004. <I>Warnings/Promises</I> was released in America in August 2005.
- Linda Ryan]]></description>
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<title>Mr. T Experience</title>
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<category>Pop Punk</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:28:26 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Longtime staples of California's East Bay Punk scene, the Mr. T Experience has been cranking out hyperactive Punk Rock with just the right dose of pop. Sharp, frenzied guitars and catchy hooks are the basis for their exhilarating songs; the sometimes silly lyrics about girls, being young and disdain for popular culture make their sound irresistible. A perfect, underrated sparkplug for a sputtering Punk scene.]]></description>
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<title>Crooked Fingers</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:34:24 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Eric Bachman's latest appellation, Crooked Fingers, finds him working in a lower-volume, Barry Black vein while embracing the dark, broken spirit that gave rise to such Archers of Loaf classics as "Greatest Of All Time" and "Underachievers March and Fight Song." Bachman's lyrics rally both joy and misery, sounding as though the music's been built around them rather than added post-guitar. The resulting mix constitutes Bachman's most succinct work since the Archers' <i>Vee Vee</i>. A new, rich collection of work-intensive anthems bent on drinking themselves to death or world domination -- whichever comes first.
- Kelly Bauman]]></description>
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<title>The Twilight Sad</title>
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<category>Noise Pop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:35:59 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Jealous Sound</title>
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<category>Emo/Hardcore</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:00:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[During the course of a three-album career as Knapsack's
singer/front-personality, Blair Shehan wrote some of the catchiest, sharpest
Emo-Pop songs this side of the Promise Ring. His most phenomenal attribute
is probably his voice. Its dynamic, jet fighter-like shrieks and seething
yet calming tones have been the focal point of all his music for good
reason -- no one sounds like Blair Shehan. Jealous Sound, his new solo
effort, offers a bit more method and a little less madness, and possibly
picks up where Knapsack's final and best album, 1998's <I>This Conversation
Is Ending Starting Right Now</I>, left off. Jealous Sound's crafty songs --
featuring piano and patient, mature songwriting and arranging, in addition
to the usual bass, guitar and drums -- hint at great things to come.
- Kelly Bauman]]></description>
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<title>Bettie Serveert</title>
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<category>Noise Pop</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:54:33 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Mid-90s Indie pop sensation Bettie Serveert scored big with the jangly, combustible guitar work of radio hits like Tom Boy, the tasteful, yet fiery rhythms of Palomine, and the ever present smolder of Carol van Dijk's whiskey-flavored alto. While they haven't created the sounds and shapes of the future, so to speak, they have imbued their three full-length albums with songs that possess a genuine sincerity oft sacrificed to the calculating, cold spirit of innovation. Bettie Serveert took special care to preserve warmth in their chemical, kinetic musical equation; leaving a rich legacy of enduringly heart thawing melancholia and explosive fits of pop juvenilia.
- Kelly Bauman]]></description>
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<title>The Delgados</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 11:39:37 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sad, unassuming, but beautiful in its own way, the Delgados' music is cute as can be on first inspection; but get closer and you notice the frown lines and tear tracks. Male and female singers alternate singing responsibilities, and a menagerie of instruments from strings to horns to synths are used to paint delicate watercolor songs from a motley palette.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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