Depeche Mode Live @ Orlando Arena 11/14/98 By: Eric G. Besides the multiple near death experiences of it's lead singer Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode suffered a more permanent blow with the departure in 1995 of keyboardist Alan Wilder, who had been in the group for over thirteen years and was the band's most accomplished musician. […]

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Edith Frost Telescopic Drag City By: Eric G. This is Edith Frost's second full-length album, in which she refines her fuzz-laden, roots indie rock stylings with a clearer vision and better songwriting. The album is laced with country sounding instruments, though, Frost rarely allows herself to become a cliché. Her voice is a tamer version […]

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Momus The Little Red Songbook Le Grand Magistery By: Eric G. Momus is a bit of a freak. He is a clever wordsmith with an ear for a catchy tune in the vein of Jacque Brel; however, his subjects know no boundaries. He asks the world-weary question "what is the cultural meaning of coming in […]

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Velvet Goldmine Music From The Original Motion Picture London By: Eric G. The new film by Todd Haynes (Safe) purports to recreate the sex, drugs, and debauchery of the Glam movement of the 1999's with Ewan McGregor and Jonathan Rhys Meyers playing human amalgams of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, and T-Rex. The soundtrack, […]

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The Cardigans Gran Turismo Mercury By: Eric G. The Cardigans have shed their sixties kitsch in favor of a darker, more atmospheric sound leaning towards trip-hop. This will, invariably, stave off loyal fans of the band’s bubblegum pop while, perhaps, garnering some credibility and respect from those who were put off by the obviousness of […]

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Portishead Roseland NYC Live Go!beat/london By: Eric G. The success of Portishead’s debut, Dummy, single-handedly enabled the spread of trip-hop across the globe even though Massive Attack probably deserves the credit for getting the ball rolling. It took three years of painstaking studio obsessiveness to create a self-entitled follow-up, but Geoff Barrow’s eccentricities paid off […]

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Grooverider Mysteries Of Funk Higher Ground / Columbia By: Eric G. Grooverider is credited as being one of the pioneers of drum n’ bass in the early 1990’s, so it’s kind of odd that his first solo album hasn’t come out until now. Mysteries Of Funk fuses several breeds of the drum n’ bass genre […]

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