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...throughout the 90s, had—along with The Apples in Stereo and Neutral Milk Hotel—served as a pillar of the Elephant Six Recording Co., a sprawling collective of indie rock bands based in Athens, Ga. With two of that decade’s finest albums??1996’s “Dusk at Cubist Castle” and 1999’s “Black Foliage”—under their belt, co-songwriters Will Cullen Hart and Bill Doss parted ways. Doss went on to pursue solo projects under...
...most of the oughts, drugs and alcohol meant that his shows would be either the best or the worst concert you’d seen in a long while.All this has made Adams one of the most frustrating musicians around. Between 2003 and 2005 he recorded five purportedly-mediocre albums??and countless other unreleased tracks still confined to his vaults, which supposedly also contain a song-for-song cover of the Strokes’ “Is This It?”–that produced a lot of critical whining. And exhibit number...
...Great chiefly because it’s an album.Sort of. It’s not a CD—there’s no jewel case or liner notes. But as a pay-what-you-want download, it’s perfectly representative of what modern “albums?? are. Plus—oh yeah—it’s got music.Thom Yorke evidently got all his bleep-blips out with last year’s solo outing, “The Eraser.” On “In Rainbows,” Radiohead...
...according to NME—flooding the music scene? Remember how the Libertines, fronted by Pete Doherty, set themselves apart from the Strokes and the Vines and the Hives with an exquisite sense of rock history, harmonic sophistication, and fantastically nihilistic lyrics? Remember how both the Libertines’ albums??first “Up the Bracket” and then their eponymous “The Libertines”—offered Americans a raw, exciting view into a drug-addled cockney underground where Sid Vicious still swaggered? If you do, you better not to listen...
What’s the deal with all these “remix albums?? today? When I was a lad, the only artists who released discs with remixes of entire albums were…Linkin Park?But now, it’s the “indie” thing to do! Earlier this year, Bloc Party put out a sliced-and-diced “Silent Alarm,” Death From Above 1979 gave the thumbs-up to a supefluous retooling of their last jaunt, and now, everyone’s favorite genius-posing...