Pavement Terror Twilight Matador By: Eric Greenwood For some ridiculous reason someone associated the term ‘slacker’ with lo-fi music, specifically of the indie rock nature, but there has never been anything slack about Pavement’s music- not even when it was clouded with blistering shards of noise about eight years ago. Pavement is too smart to […]

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Jessica Bailiff Hour Of The Trace Kranky By: Eric G. You don’t have to read her bio to figure out that Jessica Bailiff hails from the school of slow-core typified by bands like Low and Codeine. From the first droning notes of Hour Of The Trace, Alan Sparhawk’s influence is evident, almost overpowering as he […]

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Echo What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? London By: Eric G. The chances that Echo & The Bunnymen would record another album together were slim to none just a few years ago, but the band resurfaced in 1997 triumphantly with Evergreen and defied all the forces against them. The original quartet released […]

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Glamorama Bret Easton Ellis Alfred A. Knopf By: Eric G. Eight years in the making, Glamorama, the new book by Bret Easton Ellis, starts off as a subversive yet highly moralistic take on the frivolous and aimlessly shallow fashion scene in New York, but then quickly and strangely develops into a deliberately self-conscious terrorist caper. […]

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Squarepusher Budakhan Mindphone Nothing/Warp By: Eric Greenwood Squarepusher follows up last year’s fusion-jazz-based Music Is Rotted One Note with another weird foray into live instrumentation. Budakhan Mindphone is less jazzy and more experimental. Ambient electronics replace the relentless snare and fretless bass, but this is still a far cry from Squarepusher’s unique strain of frenetic […]

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Jeff Mueller Fold And Perish Monitor By: Eric Greenwood Jeff Mueller comes from that lineage of bands influenced by the legendary Kentucky band Slint. First there was Rodan, which briefly donned the post-Slint flag before the band disseminated after only one full length, and then Mueller joined June Of 44, whose first LP, Engine Takes […]

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Idlewild Hope Is Important Odeon By: Eric G. Idlewild is a quartet from Edinburgh, Scotland that made its name through a series of blistering live shows in 1995, where the band is said to have evoked the ghosts of Husker Du and early Jesus Lizard. Hope Is Important is the band’s second full-length but first […]

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