Category Archives: Music Review
Review: Beach House – Teen Dream
Any way you run, you run before us. Black and white horse, arching among us. Continue reading
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Review: Los Campesinos! – Romance is Boring
Since their first record, Hold On Now, Youngster, opens with the bombastic “Death to Los Campesinos!” and their follow up “EEP” We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed starts with the bouncy “Ways to Make it Through the Wall,” one would … Continue reading
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Review: Spoon – Transference
Austin-based Spoon have been critical darlings for a long time but in 2007, they released Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga and broke out as much as is possible for a band to do in this day and age. Somehow simultaneously … Continue reading
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Review: Vampire Weekend – Contra
In formulating my review of Vampire Weekend’s new record Contra, I found myself unable to figure out how to address the record. There’s a lot to be said about Vampire Weekend outside of the actual music on the record, which … Continue reading
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Tangled Up in Wires Goes to Free Week
The first week in January is not traditionally a particularly exciting time for concerts so here in Austin, a few clever concert promoters came up with the idea to liven up business by hosting a week of free music with … Continue reading
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Live Review: Land of Talk – Radio Radio 12.11.2009
Elizabeth Powell and Land of Talk are a kind of indie rock conundrum. They had a great debut with Applause, Cheer, Boo, Hiss, followed that with the terrific Justin Vernon-produced Some Are Lakes, and just recently released the TUIW approved … Continue reading
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Review: Los Campesinos! – “There Are Listed Buildings”
And woe betide your listed heaaaaarts Continue reading
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Review: R.E.M. – Live at the Olympia in Dublin
In the last two years, R.E.M. seems to have been revisiting their desire to release live material. Prior to 2007, the only official live R.E.M. recordings came through concert films, obscure b-sides, and bonus tracks. But in 2007, the band … Continue reading
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Review: Atlas Sound – Logos
What did you want to see? What did you want to be…when you grew up? Continue reading
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Review: Land of Talk – Fun and Laughter
When I was working as Assitant Music Director for WDUB, my college radio station, a copy of Land of Talk’s debut, Applause Cheer Boo Hiss was in my review pile. The promoter of the album boasted it was for fans of … Continue reading
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