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The Mountain Goats’ latest release, Transcendental Youth comes complete with something new and shiny. No, it’s not the lyrics or subject matter. Rest assured, longtime listeners, John Darnielle is still eloquently mining the depths of the fragile human psyche for some of his best material, dropping lines like “Long black night/Morning frost/I’m still here/But all is lost” with aplomb throughout the album’s twelve tracks. However, this time around, the songs are buoyed by a rousing and sometimes even uplifting horn section, expertly arranged by the emerging and proficient musical jack-of-all-trades Matthew E. White
Touring on the back of the excellent new album Kill My Blues, the Corin Tucker Band pulled into New York on a high. Scheduled to play this early show in Manhattan and a later show on Saturday in Brooklyn the band was covering all its bases. This night saw an older crowd fill up the Mercury Lounge as Tucker took the stage dressed in Sea Green and put together a tight hour long set with her excellent band.
Dinosaur Jr.’s You’re Living All Over Me, the groundbreaking album from the masters of alt-guitar rock, turns 25 this fall. To celebrate, Merge will release Chocomel Daze (Live 1987), a
