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Album Review: Buffalo Rodeo – Home Videos

Album Review: Buffalo Rodeo – Home Videos

Buffalo Rodeo released their newest effort Home Videos at The Twisted Tap here in Bowling Green last night. Their sound is rock heavy, featuring reverb washed vocals and the added bonus of some beautiful male/female harmonies. You’ll hear a little synth too, which we can all get…

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Album Review: The Neighbourhood – I Love You.

Album Review: The Neighbourhood – I Love You.

From “Sweater Weather” to “Wires” and a reworked “Female Robbery”, I’ve spent some time covering these LA gentlemen called The Neighbourhood. They’ve had some great singles, they’ve got an awesome logo, and they live their lives in black and white. It’s taken a long time,…

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Album Review: Gospel Gossip – Gospel Gossip

Album Review: Gospel Gossip – Gospel Gossip

Gospel Gossip’s self-titled LP is here today in all it’s shoegazing, soaring glory. It’s everything you loved about the Atlantic Blue 7″ and “Except You” in full length form. For me, it’s a great day. This Minneapolis based outfit hasn’t released a bad track since…

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Album Review: Lightouts – Want

Album Review: Lightouts – Want

It’s been a long wait, but Want has finally arrived. I interviewed these guys in August of 2011 and we were talking about Want all the way back then. I naively asserted in that discussion with Gavin and Greg that we’d be laying ears on this LP…

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Album Review: The Tontons – Bones 7″

Album Review: The Tontons – Bones 7″

Something about the mail that contained Bones prevented me from sorting it and therefore potentially missing it. I have a process I run through – 90% of PR stuff goes straight to “QUEUE” or “SHORTHANDED GOALS” after a quick smell test. For some reason, I didn’t…

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Album Review: Magic Shadows – Sunburned Mind b/w Under The Stairs 7″

Album Review: Magic Shadows – Sunburned Mind b/w Under The Stairs 7″

Cathartic, noise-y, ass-kicking – that’s Hamilton, Ontario based Magic Shadows. Their 7″, Sunburned Mind b/w Under The Stairs is dirty, grimey garage rock woven together with wailing vocals and dark undertones. Somewhere beneath all those chugging riffs and pounding drums you’ll also find a surprisingly…

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Album Review: Manicorn – We’re Manicorn

Album Review: Manicorn – We’re Manicorn

We all have those things we find irresistible  The opposite (or same) sex, money, a certain type of food, nicotine, alcohol, thrill seeking experiences…they pull at us with a gravitas that we struggle to understand. They make us do strange things, say weird shit, or generally…

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Album Review: Bill Times A Billion – Say It Nicer

Album Review: Bill Times A Billion – Say It Nicer

Husband and wife garage-pop duo Bill Times A Billion are what I would call highly efficient. How else could you describe an eight track EP that clocks in at a mere fourteen minutes? Some might label that blistering, breakneck music; that’s not the footprint that…

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Album Review: Nerves Junior – Craters EP

Album Review: Nerves Junior – Craters EP

It’s different. You might find yourself saying that when you load the latest Nerves Junior EP up on your iPhone. Opening track “Craters” packs away the oomph that marked previous efforts from the Louisville, KY band – this time the group have placed the emphasis…

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Album Review: Nacosta – Without Limits/Paradise Cough

Album Review: Nacosta – Without Limits/Paradise Cough

“Fascinated by the chaotic point where the sprawling beauty and unrestrained wilderness of nature collides headlong with the isolating yet enticing expanse of the urban world,” Los Angeles based Nacosta was born. Combining folk and psychedelic soundscapes into a sometimes haunting, yet oddly stimulating composition, these three…

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