BELLE & SEBASTIAN TAKE THE EASY WAY OUT ON ‘PEACETIME’
Fans have spent many years, many desperate conversations defending Belle & Sebastian. And, really, there’s a lot to defend. Sure, the music is utterly testosterone-free, but who doesn’t love a swe...
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WEEZER GOES BACK — AND FORWARD — ON ‘EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT IN THE END’
Weezer. Just saying the name in conversation with music junkies garners a passionate response; nowadays people either love ’em or hate ’em, but the in-between is long gone. How did we get here? Twenty...
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TUNE-YARDS TACKLES THE ODDITIES OF EXISTENCE
By Emily Votaw Merrill Garbus has made a lot of odd records that somehow manage to mesh the ever-important aspects of catchiness and playful weirdness into something that is incredibly gratifying and...
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THE HOLD STEADY DELIVERS ANOTHER KNOCKOUT PUNCH
By Michael Lello There was never any question about the quality of The Hold Steady’s swaggering brand of beer commercial guitar riffs and barstool sermons. But it never seemed like an aesthetic that...
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