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As the tittle says, 25 albums worth special attention this year. The bubbling under section would be huge so I have to save it for later tim...

Luke Haines has achieved everything smashing that Morrissey used to be. How is he going to use it, eventually? In popular music, nostalgy is...

...and yes, we buy it. It's pop music. Let's begin by summing up some of the vital stats. It's 2009. I bet that I'm not the ...

...But sweet, really sweet Albeit the ultra cheap video for La Roux's Bulletproof looks like something designed to attract pre-teen kid...

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are evolving into the jet plane age of American Smooth I've never been that much into the triple Y. Then I saw the v...

"Shit, still in Saigon " Stumbled upon this while checking out what the Guild of Pretentious Hipsters from Brooklyn -media are int...

Sleepy Sun may have created the soundtrack for Summer 2009 When I grow up I'm going to put up a band. And we will do so much drugs! Our ...

or the record better known as the one from the band of the mayor of Turtle River, Minnesota I guess at least part of you know the story so f...

Filthy Dukes / Jackpot / Crookers Like eighteen out of twenty graphic designers, the one behind Filthy Dukes' single cover embraces the ...

'Twas the squarest of times... or was it? There seems to be a wave of bands drawing their inspiration from the 70's, taking not only...

Today's electric independent sounds like condensation on the surface of a soda can I tend to be somewhat skeptic about album format danc...

Glen Campbell is like Southern Comfort served to Casey Jones with gasoline and coke You know movies like Car or Maximum Overdrive , where s...

Back in 1974 Guess what? I wanna show you something. It's an old open-cut mine pit filled with soiled rain water. About 6 feet deep and ...

or the pains of not being a douchebag So maybe it's just irony, but for god's sake they have the worst name in, say, the last 13 yea...

Wavves calls a new generation of West Coast surfer emo defeatists to unite Why is it that the record industry thinks a bunch of Californian ...