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Forgive Durden - Razia’s Shadow: A Musical

For almost a year now, fans of Forgive Durden were left scared and confused over the band’s fate.  In January of this year, frontman Thomas Dutton announced that the other three members had...

Paris 2008: Ssangyong C200 concept on the stand

Filed under: Diesel Click to see more of the Ssangyong C200 The preview sketches of the latest Ssangyong concept vehicle, the C200, made it look like a squat little car. In fact, it looked pretty...

Michael Knight

Aside from having an unfortunate moniker from the perspective of trashy '80s pop culture, Michael Knight offers a delectably weird take on chamber rock, as though Sufjan Stevens took a bit too much...

Monday Music Roundup, Tuesday edition

People, I tell you -- this month is going to be the death of me. I can't manage much banter, but I can offer you music. No One's Better SakeLittle JoyI love songs where something is a little...

Today's Hotness: Stricken City, Asobi Seksu, GAS

<< Stricken City's forthcoming second single "Lost Art" reminds us of a charming blend of Haircut 100's new wave pop and Kiss Me Deadly's dancable indie tunes. The track has a bouncy rhythm,...

Putiferio - Ateateate

Here is an album I probably should have written about a bit earlier this year but just didn?t necessarily get around to. I have no clue why, but that?s how I operate it seems. Anyway, I was talking...

CC200: The Dambuilders' "Shrine," A Nationwide Tangent

Melodic bass, crisp snare beats and blasts of guitar and violin. The Dambuilders' "Shrine" has everything (except, as Wikipedia points out, a traditional verse-chorus structure) and the erstwhile...

[The Virgins]

"You've got a lovely way with words, must be the way you see the world. It's just the way you see the world."Now just who are they trying to fool with that moniker? I imagine their events come...

Mp3s: Swervedriver live in Boston

Even though I'm an unabashed fan of the shoegaze, I think I'm still allowed to believe that particular moniker for early-90s, mostly British, pedal-heavy, layered-guitar music is a bit silly. For me...

Beirut Demos. Lots of Them.

I have something beautiful for you today.If any of you are familiar with Beirut, you might know a little something about the music Zach Condon recorded before his treasured Gulag Orkestar. Before he...