With word of a new CocoRosie record due in May, I was reminded of the brilliance of “Terrible Angels” and their debut record, La maison de Mon Rêve.

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“The pop duo’s ‘Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates’ just misses the mark.” Maybe they should have chosen to do Journey covers instead?

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This really reminds me of something, but I can’t put my finger on it at the moment.

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I need to revisit Exploding Head, A Place to Bury Strangers’ LOUD sophomore LP. I listened to it a good bit when it first came out last fall, and then it dropped right off my radar. The overblown intensity of the lighting in this video for “Ego Death” matches the overblown intensity of the screeching […]

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Record Club: INXS “Guns In The Sky” from Beck Hansen on Vimeo. All of Beck’s Record Club covers thus far have made sense as far as Beck’s probable influences go, but now that he’s hooked up with St. Vincent, members of Liars, and members of Os Mutantes, I’m much more intrigued. This random assortment of […]

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So, Suede has reunited. Who hasn’t? As I recall, by the time these guys had thrown in the towel, it was well past the expiration date. A New Morning, wasn’t that the last one? Yeah, that album was rather bad. But money beckons. As does fame. And solo albums aren’t as successful as surmised. I […]

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For most people Talk Talk were a flash in the pan new wave band with two hits, “It’s My Life” and the self-titled “Talk Talk”, but the band, led by the unmistakable voice of Mark Hollis, veered hard left on subsequent albums, pursuing a much darker, experimental, and esoteric creative form. This “single” from the […]

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