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Raine Maida - The Hunters Lullaby

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

So, who is Raine Maida? Raine Maida is the lead singer of Our Lady Peace, a once great Canadian Alt-Rock band. Their 1997 release, Clumsy, is a perfect album in my eyes. Every track on that album could have been a single. In the 11 years since it’s release, it hasn’t once lost its place in […]

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Laura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim (2008)

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

I go through weird music phases. I’ll get into a genre for a couple weeks and try to get as many albums as I can. If you look at my ever-growing and obese iTunes library, arranged auto-biographically a-la High Fidelity, you’ll see blocks of 70’s R&B, Trip-Hop, Euro-Death Metal, Ambient Post-Rock, 90’s Hip Hop, Free Jazz […]

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The Fall Of Troy - Manipulator (2007)

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

Manipulator is my proudest discovery (actually, it was The Great White Gypsy’s discovery) of 2007 and maybe the entire decade.  I haven’t heard a combination of musicianship, energy, lyrics and raw emotion this cohesive since Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness. And I’m fully aware that comparing three kids barely old enough to drink to […]

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Cunninlynguists - A Piece of Strange (2006)

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

A week or so ago, I mentioned Kno, of Cunninlynguists, as one of the artists in my rotation. His remix of Jay-Z’s Black Album is probably the best of many attempts to remake Jay’s classic album—far superior to even DJ Danger Mouse’s much hyped, Grey Album. His use of jazz horns and guitars adds a […]

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