2007

Wednesday Intermezzo: Echo Adds

The lineup for October’s Echo Project just keeps on getting better. Les Claypool, the Flaming Lips and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are among the additions playing the festival, which takes place

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Emergence: Good News for the Crimson Cult

He’s baaaack: Former 70 Volt Parade lead singer Trey Anastasio tonight made his first public appearance since…since, well, falling off the face of the Earth. Big Red ended his five-month

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Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

Like a 90 minute comedy film, its been argued that a ten song album is the perfect length. If you oppose, give Kid A, Loaded, The Queen is Dead or Sticky Fingers a spin. Spoon front-man Britt Daniel, a notorious perfectionist, went full stride with ten songs on Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, Spoon's six full-lenghth. Although there’s no argument about the dreadful album title, Daniel nailed Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga’s inner contents: ten songs of confident style shifting and melody.

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Office Plan Tour with Earlimart

Scratchie/New Line Records are excited to announce OFFICE’s first national tour, in support of their label debut, A NIGHT AT THE RITZ, due out September 25th. The 19-date tour with

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The Cribs: Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever

As amazing as the British indie music scene has been in the past, how is anyone supposed to decide between The Futureheads, Arctic Monkeys, Art Brut, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, and The Cribs?  As much as I listened carefully to every note to The Cribs' major label debut Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever, I honestly cannot tell this group's album apart from any of the other condescending, menacing, and assertive post-punk cock rock band's output that sensationalist UK music journalists try to persuade London hipsters to buy.

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