Various Artists At Home With The Groovebox Grand Royal By: Eric G. At Home With The Groovebox is a higher-minded concept album than all those run of the mill tribute records that flood the market this time of year. Only Grand Royal could put out a tribute to the Roland MC-505 Groovebox; otherwise, known as […]

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Low Christmas Kranky / Chair Kicker's Union By: Robert H. In a year sponsoring releases by apparently infallible talents like Luna, Beck, and The Magnetic Fields, a band consisting of an undistorted guitar, a plodding bass and a snare drum might seem likely to fall through the cracks. But, damn, if Low isn't a surefire […]

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Club 8 Missing You: The Remixes Ep March By: Eric G. Swedish dance pop outfit Club 8 returns with an EP to fill the time between albums, showcasing two new mixes of its minor club hit “Missing You.” The band made some new friends in America at its CMJ showcase last year and the resulting […]

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Jim O'rourke Halfway To A Threeway Drag City By: Eric G. After years of experimental deconstruction in bands like Gastr Del Sol, Jim O’Rourke has joined forces with the other side- blatant, unabashed pop music. Halfway To A Threeway is a far cry from O’Rourke’s days of playing the guitar with an electric drill or […]

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Supergrass S/T Parlophone By: Eric G. This is classic British pop music on the same level as early Rolling Stones and even Abbey Road-era Beatles. "Moving" kicks off Supergrass' third album with a schizophrenic tone: the moody, string-laden intro slips effortlessly into the kind of funky rocker only Supergrass could pull off. Vocalist Gaz Coombes […]

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Those Bastard Souls Debt And Departure V2 By: Robert H. So there's a mixed bag of good news and bad, Grifters fans. First, some bad: word has it that the Grifters are, at least, temporarily, on hold, if not permanently disbanded. Dave Shouse evidently feels that his songwriting is going in a direction other than […]

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Andrea Parker Kiss My Arp Mo' Wax By: Eric G. Kiss My Arp is an amazingly stylized and brilliantly crafted debut album by DJ and sometimes vocalist Andrea Parker. She began her career as a DJ back in 1993 and released her first single for Mo' Wax almost four years ago, entitled "Melodious Thunk." Parker […]

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