Review: Sharp Practise – Steal With Pride

Review: Sharp Practise – Steal With Pride
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Sharp Practise = REO Speedwagon + The Who – Little River Band … read more

Review: Reigning Sound – Shattered

Review: Reigning Sound – Shattered
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Reigning Sound= Bob Dylan + The New Pornographers – Neko Case … read more

Review: Ricked Wicky – I Sell the Circus

Review: Ricked Wicky – I Sell the Circus
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Ricked Wicky = Robert Pollard + Circus Devils – Guided By Voices  … read more

Review: Quasi – Mole City

Review: Quasi – Mole City
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Rock n’ roll is about excess, not precision or scholastic adherence to tradition or, RockGods forbid, discipline. It does take some kind of discipline, or something, to make music with an ex-spouse, as do Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss of Quasi. … read more

Review: Robert Pollard – Blazing Gentlemen

Review: Robert Pollard – Blazing Gentlemen
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Robert Pollard’s musical universe (and it is a universe—he’s written thousands of songs) often sounds like some alternate through-the-looking-glass world, resembling classic rock, with riffs and lyrical tropes that seem somehow familiar, but from some other far-off constellation.  … read more

Review: Plague Vendor – Free To Eat
Review: Polvo – Siveria

Review: Polvo – Siveria
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Polvo was math-y before there was math rock, but the angular equations of their guitar riffs and drum rhythms seemed like some secret calculus, more subtle and organic then their successors. … read more

Review: Pink Mountaintops – Get Back

Review: Pink Mountaintops – Get Back
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Vancouver indie post-punk (for lack of a better term) band Pink Mountaintops’ past members include members of everything from experimental bands like Godspeed You! Black Emperor to psych troupes The Warlocks to the heavy purveyors Black Mountain. … read more

Review: Pere Ubu – Carnival Of Souls

Review: Pere Ubu – Carnival Of Souls
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Pere Ubu = Rocket From The Tombs + Red Krayola – Devo … read more

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Review: Mecca Normal – Empathy For the Evil

Review: Mecca Normal – Empathy For the Evil
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Mecca Normal = Sleater Kinney + Beat Happening – Bikini Kill … read more