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...EP: I am writing a series of about eight short stories. They all take place in the same relatively small suburban town, each at a different period in time within about a 50-year range. Some of the characters appear in multiple stories at different ages and life stages. The protagonist or narrator of one story sometimes appears in another story as a minor character, or as a character important to the plot but not as the central figure. There will be a story about a ghost. I wouldn’t say that the work has a theme, they...
Modest Mouse Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks (EP) Epic Records
...Sony Music Entertainment. The result of the trio’s defection was The Moon & Antartica, a much more thoughtful, mellowed down version of the band that one thrashed about doin’ the cockroach. Now Modest Mouse is back with Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks, an EP compilation consisting of the four songs from the out-of-print 12” Night on the Sun, along with three new tracks and “one trippy re-mix of several songs” from Moon...
...Built to Spill-esque tune that spans seven minutes and 38 seconds, and “3 Inch Horses, Two Faced Monsters,” which takes on a country twang, both manage to embody the same listlessness from which the entire first half of the EP suffers. “You’re the Good Things” improves slightly on the formula with a little screaming and a little more of the Modest Mouse energy we’ve come to expect, but this excitement is toned down again...
With the hoopla, the Strokes kicked off their U.S. tour in support of their upcoming album on Wednesday night at Axis to a sold-out crowd. After listening to their EP The Modern Age, the advance international relase of Is This It and then finally seeing them in flesh, it is clear that the Strokes are a live outfit. Their studio-recorded songs attempt to recreate the immediacy and anguish of Julian Casablancas’ vocals, the tight guitar riffs of Albert Hammond Jr. and Nick Valensi, the bouncy bass of Nikolai Fraiture and the aggressive drumming of Fabrizio Moretti...