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Rachel Pollard's first full-length is filled with delicate, melancholic poetry and winsome reverie. While Pollard often sings about heartbreaking experiences with the...
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Although better known as the backup singers for Jenny Lewis on Rabbit Fur Coat, Chandra and Leigh Watson are no slouches on their own. Having grown up in Louisville, Kentucky,...
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My Feral Kin took root in the artistically fertile DIY soil of Phoenix, Arizona, and is currently one of the promising groups across the country tapping into a more tropical...
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Because singer Malgorzata Wacht moved to the United States from Poland before the term "alternative" became synonymous with "grunge," she never had to be saddled with that...
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The latest release from A Shoreline Dream is an exploration of broader sonic vistas than those of the dream-pop wunderkinds' three excellent previous efforts. Essentially a...
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With emo becoming a justifiably maligned quantity in recent years, especially in the flush of odious subgenres, it's easy to forget that there used to be worthwhile bands that...
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In the past decade, a thriving noise scene has emerged in direct aesthetic opposition to the tanned, fake pretty faces most often associated with the city of Los...
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The grandeur and cosmic intensity of a band like Bright Channel are both nearly impossible to live up to. But somehow, Jeff Suthers and Shannon Stein have assembled an...
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As a composer of lush, ambient soundscapes in the vein of mid-era Tangerine Dream and the later recordings of Slowdive, German-born composer Ulrich Schnauss has made quite a...
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With so many syllables in the band's name, you would totally expect it to be an emo band or purveyors of instrumental post-rock. Although there is a bit of the former in its...
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With a name borrowed from the journal of wholesome living habits and literary good taste, Good Housekeeping plays music that is both good and good for you. Displaying an...
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Another twenty-something singer-songwriter from Los Angeles? No way? Really? For his part, Johnathan Rice is more than a cut above most. His songwriting, in fact, is strong...
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One of the furthest edges of avant-garde underground music at the moment is inhabited by the harsh-noise-and-bent-circuit contingent and its proclivity for making interesting...
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Gloam's online bio references Carlos Castaneda's notion — undoubtedly culled from his mystical experiences and practices — that on the borderlands of night and...
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This deluxe re-release of the VSS's final album probably would have benefited from some remastering, since the levels seem somewhat uneven and often flat. However, these flaws...
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The origins of Sleepercar's music is said to date back to the last days of At the Drive-In. The former's oldest song is said to have been written during a sound check at one...
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With the demise of Motheater last year, the Denver scene lost one of its brightest lights. Because of its artier, more adventurous use of sound and volume, the outfit never...
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Denver has long been a home to intelligent, sophisticated pop music. In their relatively brief time together, the Pseudo Dates have established themselves as purveyors of...
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You know your band is in trouble when it's being covered by MTV and lumped in with a movement called "Lo-Fi Punk." Fortunately, the music of Columbus, Ohio's Times New Viking...
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When I'm a Boy kicks into its set, you may start to wonder exactly what year it is. Not because the music is dated, but because the band's music has the lean, focused quality...