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Track of the Day: Dusted

By Stewart Mason

Lo-fi indie solo debut

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Music Review

Family Perfume Vol. 1

White Fence

Lo-fi gets wise and stays weird.

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Music Feature

Critical Picks: Music for Spring 2012

By Stewart Mason

Five spring releases we can't wait to hear.

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Music News

Track of the Day: Pavement's second gig ever

By Stewart Mason

Full set from Maxwell's, August 12, 1990

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Music Review

Open Your Heart

The Men

Chewing up and spitting out rock's past 40 years.

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Music Review

One Second of Love

Nite Jewel

Wiping away the grime to reveal pop perfection.

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Music Critical Questions

Critical Questions: Nite Jewel

By Anna Graizbord

Ramona Gonzalez gets confident.

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Music News

Track of the Day: That Ghost

By Stewart Mason

Teenage bedroom DIY pop.

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Music News

Track of the Day: Black Tambourine, "What's Your Game"

By Stewart Mason

Showing the kids how it's done.

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Music News

Ty Segall and White Fence to release LP collaboration

By Stewart Mason

Noisy California kids join forces.

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Music Review

Let's Go Eat The Factory

Guided By Voices

That rare reunion album worth the effort.

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Culture Profile

Tonetta

By Anna Graizbord

Mysterious, uninhibited, and sexually charged DIY video artist.

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Music Review

Days

Real Estate

Jangly, rainy-day pop music of the highest order.

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Music Review

Player Piano

Memory Tapes

Chillwaver branches out but loses emotional impact.

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Music Review

Goodbye Bread

Ty Segall

Who's a good lil' doggie? You are!

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Music Review

Eternally Teenage

Tomorrows Tulips

Noise-pop with an emphasis on the noise part.

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Music Review

Sun and Shade

Woods

Fireside folk weirdos get melodic.

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Music Review

Dancer Equired

Times New Viking

Midwestern trio cleans up just a smidge.

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Music Review

Thao and Mirah

Thao and Mirah

A lovely surprise from a spur-of-the-moment collaboration.

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Music Review

Share the Joy

Vivian Girls

Spector-punk trio’s best work so far.

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Music Review

La Sera

La Sera

Vivian Girl gets in touch with her record collection.

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Music Review

He Gets Me High

Dum Dum Girls

Lo-fi fuzzsters' giant leap forward.

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Music Review

Underneath the Pine

Toro Y Moi

The exact opposite of the sophomore slump.

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Music Review

Smoke Ring For My Halo

Kurt Vile

Philadelphia singer-songwriter breaks out of the underground.

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Music Review

Is Growing Faith

White Fence

Darker My Love singer's warped psych-pop side project.

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Music Review

Dye It Blonde

Smith Westerns

Glammy, messy and excellent.

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Music Review

There Are Rules

The Get Up Kids

Old school emo kids search for fountain of youth.

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Music Review

Cloud Nothings

Cloud Nothings

Perfect for pogoing around your teenage bedroom.

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Music Review

Broken Dreams Club

Girls (2000s band)

For the indie record store owner in all of us.

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Music Review

Play It Strange

The Fresh & Onlys

2010's most aptly-titled album.

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Music Review

The Weight’s On The Wheels

The Russian Futurists

Lo-fi Canadian goes big, with inconsistent results.

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Music Review

Matador at 21

Various Artists

Beloved indie treats its fans right.

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Music List

Matador at 21: Matador Records’ 21 Best Albums

By Stewart Mason

In celebration of Matador Records' 21st anniversary and their October… >>

Music Review

Love Remains

How To Dress Well

Brian Eno producing Keith Sweat underwater.

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Music Profile

How To Dress Well

By Jim Allen

Sonic manipulation meets mainstream R&B.

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Music Review

Crazy for You

Best Coast

Lo-fi indie pop with heart.

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Music Review

King of the Beach

Wavves

Nathan Williams grows up...just enough.

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Music Review

Before Today

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti

Longtime underground hero steps into the marketplace.

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Music Profile

Will Oldham

By Jim Allen

Unpredictable, wildly prolific alt-folkie

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Music Review

Infinite Arms

Band Of Horses

Former indie rockers lose what made them special.

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Music Profile

Damien Youth

By Jim Allen

Syd Barrett-inspired cult hero

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Music Review

The Ghost Who Walks

Karen Elson

British supermodel makes surprisingly assured pop debut.

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Music Review

No Singles

Japandroids

All bands should be having this much fun.

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Music List

Critical Roots and Branches: The Magnetic Fields

By Stewart Mason

Stephin Merritt's latter-day persona as indie rock's answer to Irving… >>

Music Review

At Echo Lake

Woods

A giant leap forward.

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Music Review

Shame, Shame

Dr. Dog

Not nearly as much fun as their previous output.

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Music Review

I Will Be

Dum Dum Girls

We've heard all this before, but that's no bad thing.

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Music Review

Real Estate

Real Estate

Suburban melancholy done right.

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Music Review

Wavvves

Wavves

Occasionally daunting noise pop leavened with submerged '60s-derived hooks

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Music Profile

Wavves

A potentially fruitful rebirth of the lo-fi aesthetic, if he… >>

Music Profile

Vivian Girls

By Chris Payne

Brooklyn’s premier noise-pop revivalists.

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Music Review

Slanted and Enchanted

Pavement

Still great, 20 years on.

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Music Review

Stroke: Songs For Chris Knox

Various Artists

Despite its unfortunate circumstances, a most effective introduction to an… >>

Music Review

(a)spera

Mirah

Trenchant lyricism mated with simple, inviting melodies

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Music Review

I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day

Julie Doiron

Canadian singer-songwriter turns heartbreak into optimism

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Music Profile

Sparklehorse

By Eric Schneider

Mark Linkous crafted strangely beautiful songs that often sounded celebratory… >>

Music Review

Life of Leisure

Washed Out

Like an old OMD record that’s been pulled off the… >>

Music Profile

Guided By Voices

By Stewart Mason

Indie rockers with stadium-size inspirations.

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Music Profile

Matador Records

By Stewart Mason

Possibly the best American indie of the last 21+ years.

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Music Profile

Chris Knox

By Stewart Mason

The central figure of New Zealand's fertile indie scene

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Music Profile

R. Stevie Moore

By Stewart Mason

From DIY upstart to lo-fi's Grand Master.

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Music Profile

Pavement

By Ryan Reed

Still the kings of scrappy slacker cool.

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