April 2012
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Final Friday 5
Profligate Unguent Vales
Apr 30th
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Blunderbuss
Jack White’s debut solo album is my Graffiti Radio Featured Album of the Week on the Rainbow Books & Music website. Much like Tusk-era Lindsey Buckingham before him, White uses his newfound freedom to indulge his whims, whether he’s adding clarinet to the arrangement on “Sixteen Saltines” or dabbling with rap cadences on “Freedom at 21” … Despite it’s unevenness, Blunderbuss...
Apr 27th
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Heartbreaking Bravery
Check out the Rainbow Books & Music Website for a short review of my latest Graffiti Radio Featured Album of the Week: Moonface’s With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery. He’s up to his old tricks: constantly looking for the next angle, picking apart, reassembling, and honing in on what exactly it means to be a modern songwriter…Krug’s career is so self-referential that it’s best...
Apr 23rd
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Apr 22nd
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“It was a Southern voice, certainly, but there was in it that universal sense...”
– “Whip to Grave: Levon Helm, the Real Voice of America” by Charles P. Pierce on Esquire
Apr 19th
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Heaven
The party line on The Walkmen’s forthcoming album Heaven is that it’s “big and optimistic and fun and grand,” and at first blush the title track (and first single) fits the description to a T.  Gone are the brooding drones of Bows + Arrows and the cavernous loneliness of You & Me, and in their place we’re given springy, tremelo’d guitar picking and...
Apr 18th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 10th
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Listen I’ve been (slowly) making my way through...
Apr 7th
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I Love You, It's Cool
The Graffiti Radio Featured Album of the Week is Bear In Heaven’s I Love You, It’s Cool.  Check out my review on the Rainbow Books & Music website. Brooklyn trio Bear In Heaven follow up their breakout album Beast Rest Forth Mouth by cleaning up much of their post-punk grit and heading straight for the slick, glossy jugular of 80’s stadium rock. That’s not always a compliment, but in...
Apr 6th
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It sounds kind of ridiculous to be mourning the of loss “editorializing and providing context” provided in mp3 blogs, and criticizing users and listeners for “devouring things for short periods of time and constantly ‘upgrading’ to the next, newest, shiniest, hottest, jammiest thing.”  Aren’t those the same critiques being directed towards blogs and listeners by the...
Apr 5th
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Apr 2nd
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Apr 2nd
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Apr 2nd
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Apr 1st
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Apr 1st
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