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Album Stream: folk meets psychedelia on Mars Waters’ <i>Tempus Fugit</i> <small>[MP3s]</small>

Album Stream: folk meets psychedelia on Mars Waters’ Tempus Fugit [MP3s]

Jordy Kasko August 6, 2012 0

I’m lovin’ this album from Portland musician Ponny Kosmas, a.k.a. Mars Water.  I found it through Dance Yrself Clean, who aptly called it “Tame Impala meets Fleet Foxes.”  This label suggests beautiful harmonies and folky

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Review & Download: Digits & Bad Passion – <i>Death and Desire</i> mixtape

Review & Download: Digits & Bad Passion – Death and Desire mixtape

Jordy Kasko April 4, 2012 0

Release date: Apr. 2, 2012 1. Death and Desire 2. Because It’s Wrong 3. Lost Dream 4. Rockin’ Your Beats (Bad Passion) 5. The Face of Desire 6. Liquid Fire (Bad Passion) 7. Service

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Review: Soulfly – <i>Enslaved</i>

Review: Soulfly – Enslaved

Jordy Kasko March 15, 2012 1

What we have is their heaviest record to date, one that owes a debt to death metal and grindcore while still being quintessentially Soulfly.

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Review: AFTER – <i>Edges of the World</i> EP

Review: AFTER – Edges of the World EP

Jordy Kasko March 15, 2012 1

Razor-sharp alternative rock with a heavier focus on mood than your average radio fare. The riffs riff and the hooks hook in all the right places.

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Review: Julia Holter – <i>Ekstasis</i>

Review: Julia Holter – Ekstasis

Edie Adams March 14, 2012 0

The thing that gives me the shivers about Ekstasis is Julia Holter's voice. Forget that it's always heavenly and gentle whether it's lilting along a Middle Eastern scale ("Four Gardens") or getting electronically bent

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Review: Kaiser Chiefs – <i>Start the Revolution Without Me</i>

Review: Kaiser Chiefs – Start the Revolution Without Me

Jordy Kasko March 14, 2012 0

The tracklist for Start the Revolution Without Me is better than the British version of the album, and is only missing two or three of the best tracks from the 23-song project that Kaiser

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Review: Miniature Tigers – <i>Mia Pharaoh</i>

Review: Miniature Tigers – Mia Pharaoh

Jordy Kasko March 13, 2012 0

Miniature Tigers have repeatedly shown that they have the talent to produce quality music, but since their debut LP both full-lengths have overflowed with near misses

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Review: Said the Whale – <i>Little Mountain</i>

Review: Said the Whale – Little Mountain

Dave Nestoff March 12, 2012 0

For all of the bright-noised catchiness that is the uphill hike on these songs, the way down is never the same

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Review: Sinéad O’Connor – <i>How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?</i>

Review: Sinéad O’Connor – How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?

Jordy Kasko March 9, 2012 0

On her best album in 12 years, O'Connor is nothing less than brilliant – as strong a woman and as strong a voice as you've ever heard

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Review: Yellow Ostrich – <i>Strange Land</i>

Review: Yellow Ostrich – Strange Land

Edie Adams March 7, 2012 0

The best part? Schaaf claims to have been more "open and personal" with his lyrics on this album, trying not to go for the big metaphor all the time, and because of this, this

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Review: We Have Band – <i>Ternion</i>

Review: We Have Band – Ternion

Jordy Kasko March 7, 2012 0

Ternion places itself in that uncomfortable middle area between present quality and future potential, that uncomfortable middle area between loveable and middling

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Review: WZRD (KiD CuDi + Dot Da Genius) – <i>WZRD</i>

Review: WZRD (KiD CuDi + Dot Da Genius) – WZRD

Jordy Kasko March 6, 2012 0

WZRD may not be the revolutionary statement that it was meant to be, but it is certainly an interesting new direction for one of pop’s hardest-to-define stars

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