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Sholi

While the majority of the indie-rock-centric world is just starting to hear about them, those of us who are clued in to the Bay Area music scene have known about Sholi for nigh on three years. I for...

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Random Walks Through Myspace

In recent weeks, most of my spare time has been consumed by booking a tour for the band I’m in, a side-effect of which is getting to know more about the local scenes in other locales. Myspace is...

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Chores, The Subtle Politics of the Public Hammock

Portland’s Chores is another band with whom I was hoping to play a show while on our aforementioned tour (although it didn’t quite work out this time around), but they didn’t really fit in with the...

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The Hunches, Exit Dreams

I’m a little perturbed by the entry of lo-fi bands into the loudness war over the past couple of years. Times New Viking and Wavves, two fairly high-profile lo-fi bands of late, seem to derive their...

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Dirty Projectors, Bitte Orca

At 2009′s halfway point it appears that the ever-premature debate over Album Of The Year, at least as far as the Pitchforkosphere is concerned, is mostly about three NYC-based art-rock bands. The buzz...

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Polvo, In Prism

2009 feels like the year that I finally got old. It’s been at least five years in coming, but barely anything from the recent crop of Pitchblogosphere-pimped bands/trends is making any kind of lasting...

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Point Juncture, WA, Heart to Elk

Where Bitte Orca is an example of a great album made exceptional by its track ordering, Heart to Elk is an example of a really good album made merely okay by its track ordering. Point Juncture, WA...

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The Monosyllabic Year in Music 2009

Here’s the mix I make every year around this time to try to distill my listening habits of the previous twelve months into some sort of singular experience. Download it here. Boston Spaceships, “The...

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Vampire Weekend, Contra

Since I first saw the title and cover art, I had been kinda secretly hoping that Contra would be a concept album about a Patty Hearst-like figure. Not like I would expect that Vampire Weekend would...

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Surfer Blood, Astro Coast

Astro Coast is the work of a very young band with a good ear for hooks but not a lot of personality. It’s got a lot of up-to-the-minute trendiness working for it— beach/ocean imagery, reverb slathered...

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