Pretty Girls Make Graves Elan Vital Matador By: Eric Greenwood Maybe, I just haven't listened to it enough yet, but Élan Vital falls completely flat to my ears. Admittedly, I was very slow to accept The New Romance for the whip-smart musical piranha that it is, so I'm aware that Élan Vital could also be […]

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Simon Reynolds RIp It Up And Start Again: Post-punk 1978-1984 Penguin By: Eric Greenwood “Punk seemed to be ‘over’ almost before it really got started. For many early participants, the death knell came on October 28, 1977, with the release of Never Mind the Bollocks. Had the revolution come to this, something as prosaic and […]

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Faun Fables The Transit Rider Drag City By: Eric Greenwood Dawn McCarthy's fetishistic interpretation of long-forgotten British folk music is creepy beyond what mere words can express without auditory aids. Her two previous Drag City records, Family Album and Early Song, respectively, both revel in archetypal atmospheric folk, which were far weirder than they were […]

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Blackalicious Interview Anti By: Eric Greenwood Groundbreaking and influential West Coast hip hop duo, Blackalicious, passed through the University of South Carolina's campus recently for a show in the student union, supporting its third full-length, The Craft, on Epitaph subsidiary, Anti- records. I had the pleasure of speaking to the musical half of the equation, […]

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones Interscope By: Eric Greenwood No longer buoyed by underdog hero status, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are poised for their first taste of disappointment. Not because their new album, Show Your Bones, is bad (it's not), but because the pressure to follow up the success of Fever to Tell forced […]

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I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness Fear Is On Our Side Secretly Canadian By: Michael Jones I've been hearing about the wonders of Austin, Texas' music scene foryears – The Butthole Surfers in the late '80's and an ill-conceivedshoegaze/psychedelic movement in the mid-'90's did little to convince me that anything noteworthy came from this […]

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Band Of Horses Everything All The TIme Sub Pop By: Eric Greenwood Band of Horses' jangly twang is borne of heartache and hope- a wistful, atmospheric blend of weathered country blues and insurgent indie rock. Columbia native Ben Bridwell's voice is slathered in reverb, and it floats above a den of shimmering guitars. Neil Young […]

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