Feb 06, 2012
Music
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In 1902 French director Georges Méliès released the short film Le Voyage Dans la Lune (aka A Trip to the Moon). It is considered to be the first sci-fi movie, in which, over the course of 14 minutes a group of scientists land on the moon and fight mushroom monsters, before returning home safely. More
Feb 06, 2012
Music
Issue #39 - Best of 2011
With 2009's Exploding Head, A Place to Bury Strangers screeched past the sophomore slump, receiving roughly the same critical response they did for their debut—a handful of music scribes who couldn't handle the obvious influences, and a handful who welcomed another take on the 1-2-3s of JAMCs and MBVs. More
Feb 03, 2012
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Issue #39 - Best of 2011
A departure from the hushed bedroom delicacy of 2009’s Beasts of Seasons, La Grande ushers in a new direction for Portland, OR-based songwriter Laura Gibson. More
Feb 02, 2012
Music
Issue #39 - Best of 2011
It’s nice when an artist seems to realize his own limitations, and instead of attempting to compensate, does his best to navigate the next album accordingly. More
Feb 02, 2012
Music
Issue #39 - Best of 2011
Leila’s rickety electronic bleats, pitter-patter drums, and moody, stargazing atmosphere make her close in kin with some of the hallowed legends on her new label, Warp. More
Jan 31, 2012
Music
Issue #39 - Best of 2011
Singer/songwriter (and guitarist/pianist) Amber Papini has a rueful and luminescent voice that fills up every corner of her debut release with her competent band, Hospitality. More
Jan 30, 2012
Music
Issue #39 - Best of 2011
Claire Boucher, the sole-proprietor of Grimes, is billing Visions as her first “real” album—coming a year after a few extraneous curiosities and flashes of interest. More
Jan 27, 2012
Music
Issue #39 - Best of 2011
In the midst of everything, a heart-in-mouth Matthew Caws proclaims “it’s never too late for teenaged dreams!” This comes on the sixth track of Nada Surf’s seventh studio album, which marks the band’s entry into a third decade of existence (they formed in 1992). More
Jan 26, 2012
Music
Issue #39 - Best of 2011
The Hold Steady’s crunchy bar-rock never really made much sense for frontman Craig Finn’s brand of lyrics-first, reference-laden, recurrent pan-album concepts. More
