Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Castanets lore says bandleader Ray Raposa tested out of high school when he was a kid and spent the next few years roaming America on a Greyhound bus. You know, he saw the country, slept on floors, really cut his teeth. […]
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Liars
In 2004, Spin ran one of many disapprovingdisgusted?reviews of Liars’ second album, They Were Wrong, So We Drowned. The album departed from the dance-punk angularity of the then-Brooklyn band’s debut, They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top. People hated that shit: Spin levied the ultimate “unlistenable” criticism, and Billboard […]
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Weedeater
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. • Read Grayson Currin’s feature on Weedeater. Accepting stoner metal on its own terms isn’t the easiest thing. As if taking names like Electric Wizard and Orange Goblin seriously wasn’t already tough enough, stoner metal dudes typically champion bong rips, puke […]
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Marnie Stern
Listen! Listen to Marnie Stern’s “Every Single Line Means Something” from the new album In Advance of the Broken Arm. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. In a March article entitled “Guitar Heros, Make That Heroines, in Indie Rock,” The New York Times‘ Will Hermes breathlessly signed off […]
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Everclear
The chorus on alt.rock benchmark “Santa Monica” made the three Portland slackers in Everclear famous. Some 10 years later, the headliners of the first week of Bud Light Downtown Live have come pretty damn close to watching their own world die. After being dropped by Capitol and filing for divorce and bankruptcy in the same […]
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Yearling
Listen! Listen to Yearling’s “Holiday” from the new album The View From Here. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Read our interview with Yearling guitarist George Hage and drummer Mike Schroeder. Unedited heart. Karo-covered vocals. A guitar that bites, a partner that’s content to twinkle. In all of […]
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Negativland at 28ish
Creative Commons is a post-2.0 nonprofit that offers progressive copyright options to artists who aren’t concerned with battening down the hatches on their work. According to its website, “Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.” With CC […]
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The Rosebuds’ Night of the Furies
Read our Rosebuds feature, “The Rosebuds locks itself at home and emerges with its most extroverted album yet” A new direction isn’t necessarily a bad one. Wife-and-husband duo Kelly Crisp and Ivan Howard proved that with 2005’s sad-eyed Rosebuds record, Birds Make Good Neighbors. An unexpected turn from the ecstatic love-pop of their Merge debut […]
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Selling cool
Game Rebellion is not the best band in the worldby any stretch of the words “best,” “band” or “world.” From their perch in Brooklyn, N.Y., the seven-member collective pimp a kind of “genre bending” that smears Diet Dr. Know guitar solos all over “gritty” Gotham hip-hop beats. Imagine Cypress Hill’s “Rock Superstar” sprayed by a […]
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Making a Mass-todon
Over the past seven years, Atlanta, Ga.’s Mastodon has perfected a brand of more-is-more heavy metal that bowls barriers and defies categorization in a genre that thrives on fine print and substrata. Prog, noise, doom, sludge, thrash or black metal: You’d be hard pressed to dig up an extreme music fan in any niche who […]