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As fate would have it, my last review of daisybones seems to have caught up with me. Don’t get me wrong, work still sucks and my friends still complain. But since then, the weather has bristled up, thus urging me and everyone else on Tumblr to toss on heavy flannels,…
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Very little is known about Gish, the mysterious experimental project of southern NH-based singer/songwriter Jaclynn Manning. Her BandCamp page, where her music can be found contains no trace of a website, or even social media, as though her brand of spooky, enigmatic, ambient folk music exists as an anomaly. As…
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Recently I consulted my girlfriend about a dream I had. The details are important only to me, really, but…she’s intuitive, and she’s as perceptive as can be. So when she finished listening, offered her interpretation, and summed it up by stating “You have options”, a chord of honesty, clarity, and…
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In case you haven’t heard, Los Bungalitos are back. Years in the making, the MVHC flagbearers have returned with arguably their greatest record to date. After releasing a few self-recorded cuts of the record under the name “Quick & Dirty EP” a little while ago, we now have the full…
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Arlen’s The Slight: Mood as Craft Arlen is well established as a singular and novel melding of post-punk and moody rock long ago. With their latest EP The Slight, they’ve come at a fork in the road between past and present—and paved their own path through the middle. The “past”…
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Looking for a deep analysis of music? Craving those beautifully crafted descriptions? Look elsewhere on our site for that. Jim goes to shows. He has thoughts and these are them. I’m going to do a review for this show. I won’t do a review when I play one but this…
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Imagine a long, straight stretch of desert highway in the dead of nighttime. All is quiet. There’s no cars for miles and miles away, and you’re so far from light pollution that every speck of illumination is visible. You find yourself staring into an endless vacuum that’s equal parts cold…
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Looking for a deep analysis of music? Craving those beautifully crafted descriptions? Look elsewhere on our site for that. Jim goes to shows. He has thoughts and these are them. Well I went to a show and what a show it was to have gone to. All the things I…
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As I began listening to Space in My Noggin, the latest full-length from the Dirty Dottys, I started to feel a little anxious. I started to feel this strange twitching in my glutes. I considered calling my doctor, but then I realized what the issue was. My booty was shaking.…
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Toluca Lake’s Breath in Passing: A Show of Power and Grace Very rarely does a release from the local scene immediately make you think of widespread appeal. Buried in the textures and melodies of Toluca Lake’s Breath in Passing is an artistically complex yet accessible attempt at true indie pop…
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