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Witch
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Self-Titled
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Label: Tee PeeRelease Date: 03/07/06
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J Mascis’s stoner-rock band is here, thank God. It’s classic-rock influenced stoner-metal, so they obviously sound like Sabbath, but this somehow doesn’t come off as a ripoff or idolozation. Somewhere between the riffage you realize that these are […]
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Spitfire
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Self-Help
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Label: GoodfellowRelease Date: 02/28/06
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Virginia Beach’s Spitfire returned to the metal/hardcore scene just under a year ago, playing old songs with a veteran lineup. 12 months later their new LP is out, and a few personell changes have taken place. If you catch […]
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The Elected
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Sun, Sun, Sun
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Label: Sub PopRelease Date: 02/21/06
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A few weeks back, The Elected had the distinct misfortune of being the other indie release along side of Jenny Lewis. Jenny Lewis has received a lot of hype for her record and successfully overshadowed […]
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Local artist and musican, Todd Webb, has just dropped off his latest comic journal, Valentine (a cautionary tale). He returns this time with a handful of black and white illustrations of being rejected, on the loneliest of holidays, Valentines Day. His work, as always, is adorable, funny, and irresistible.
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Todd also performs in a band called, […]
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The Loved Ones
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Keep Your Heart
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Label: Jade TreeRelease Date: 02/21/06
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“Melodic punk rock with a hardcore sensibility.” I hate when record reviewers say shit like that. Whether it’s in Ninevolt or MRR, Rolling Stone or Portfolio, it’s vague and usually from a skewed perspective […]
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Upside Down Cross
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Self-Titled
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Label: Self ReleasedRelease Date: 02/07/06
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The Upside Down Cross album is a barrage of carefully arranged noise from members of Sparrows Swarm and Sing, and Bad Business. This isn’t any kind of sonic assault on the senses, it’s ambient, experimental, and […]
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I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness
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Fear is on Our Side
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Label: Secretly CanadianRelease Date: 03/07/06
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Austin, TX’s I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness are like a darker, moodier Spoon. Doomed to be lumped in with other \’e2\’80\’9cnew-wave\’e2\’80\’9d revivalists, they are certainly influenced […]
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The new issue of Adbusters just hit the shelves. Behind the cover:
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MEET YOUR NEW MOMMY
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A special technology feature on the past, present, and imminent future of our lives alongside androids and artificial intelligence.
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A NEW MODEL FOR NON-PROFITS
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Michael Shuman and Merian Fuller explain why the secret to being as radical as we want to be is […]
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Baroness
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Second
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Label: HyperrealistRelease Date: 11/04/05
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Much to our delight, Savannah Georgia’s Baroness have finally released their second “LP”. These four dudes play stoner-punk in the same vein as their friends in Kylesa, but with an earnestness I don’t hear in so many of their […]
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Das Oath
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Mini LP
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Label: Dim MakRelease Date: 02/21/06
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In case you’re not familiar with them, Das Oath are formerly “The Oath,” an American/Swedish hybrid punk/hardcore monstrosity. Members of a random assortment of big name bands (Charles Bronson, Devoid of Faith, Monster X, Mainstrike, Oil, […]
