Gorillaz Demon Days Virgin By: Eric Greenwood It must feel strangely ironic for Damon Albarn finally to find success in America with his fluke cartoon side band Gorillaz, while his true love, Blur, struggled for a decade only to make a commercial dent with that “woo-hoo!” song ("Song 2" off 1997's Blur), which now only […]

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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Of Natural History Mimicry By: Eric Greenwood At heart, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum is a metal band, but your typical mullet-headed Metallica fan would probably not agree. An easy and honestly lazy reference for the band is Mr. Bungle, whose brand of artsy, pretentious, metal-tinged prog-rock made musically adventurous yet technically superior metal […]

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Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur You're Living All Over Me Bug Merge By: Eric Greenwood It seems like it would have taken so much more than a trio of reissues on Merge to reunite the original line-up of Dinosaur Jr. The notoriously acrimonious split between J Mascis and Lou Barlow has been the stuff of legend in […]

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Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur; You're LIving All Over Me; Bug Merge By: Eric Greenwood It seems like it would have taken so much more than a trio of reissues on Merge to reunite the original line-up of Dinosaur Jr. The notoriously acrimonious split between J Mascis and Lou Barlow has been the stuff of legend in […]

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Nine Inch Nails With Teeth Interscope By: Eric Greenwood Sure, Nine Inch Nails is gospel for self-anointed rejects that tend to wear too much white face paint, oversize black t-shirts, and have too many zippers on their tapered black pants from Hot Topic, but to discerning music obsessives, Trent Reznor is a pretentious schmuck with […]

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Coldplay X EMI By: Eric Greenwood For me, Coldplay has always seemed stuck inside Radiohead's 1995 classic "Fake Plastic Trees." The falsetto, the nuanced acoustic sway, and the general malaise of that song sort of lazily encompass Coldplay's entire worldview. I didn't give the band's safe, girlfriend rock much credit until I heard "Clocks" off […]

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Weezer Make Believe Geffen By: Eric Greenwood If you've heard Weezer's comeback single, "Beverly Hills", and think it's good, please stop reading now. You're obviously a glutton for aural punishment, and there's nothing I could say to fix your taste. For the rest, who full-body cringed at the embarrassing lyrics, the lame, chant-along chorus, and […]

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