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Getting to know someone is hard. Family, friends, lovers — you can spend your whole life with someone and still not know them utterly and completely. People are intricate beings, a whir of emotions... Lees meer

When I first received An Airing of Grievances, the titanic 2008 debut by New Jersey reprobates Titus Andronicus, the album spent a solid and uninterrupted week in my stereo (“stereo,” in this i... Lees meer

Consisting largely of cock rock signifiers, Free Energy's debut record Stuck On Nothing might initially come across as a pointless exercise in derivation. Despite the obvious rockist pastiche, Free... Lees meer

Rebounding from the emotional morass of their last album, Frightened Rabbit have emerged defiant, but more than a little muddled. The sense of confusion is palpable; as its title connotes, The Wint... Lees meer

If "What's in the water in Olympia?" is not yet a music review cliché, I would like to officially register it. Arguably, the water is simply refreshing and clean, and so Olympia and the Olympians ... Lees meer

Identity is a construct. It's a story we tell about ourselves. Sometimes the story becomes too much of a burden, and we spend more time trying to make it coherent than actually being able to go abo... Lees meer

There's a lot of talk these days about the "new normal." It's a sugar-coated way of referencing America in decline, of underlining a potentially permanent new reality of lowered expectations. Much ... Lees meer

Rhys Chatham claims he hasn't made an album like The Bern Project since his Die Donnergotter work in the 80s. That bold statement only approximates the connection between the pioneer of electric g... Lees meer

The Blood Brothers were a post-hardcore group, one that flirted with the kind of popularity that groups like Modest Mouse has held down in spades. While most bands recording intricate guitar melodi... Lees meer

It’s an epic quest — one with teeth bared, vocal cords strained, and eyelids drooped. One with seven-minute opuses, blown-out walls of sound, and evenly harmonized boy-girl vocals, where stage li... Lees meer