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Yo La Tengo: 'Fade'new
How do you keep your sound fresh after over 20 years as a band?
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
01-23-2013 |
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Tags: Yo La Tengo
Matchbox 20: 'North'new
I'll make this as quick and painless as possible. First of all, Matchbox 20 still exists (yes, the “push you around” guys).
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
09-16-2012 |
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Yeasayer: 'Fragrant World'new
With their third album, Brooklyn's Yeasayer prove once again that they have no interest in artistic stillness.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
08-30-2012 |
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Last Nighters: 'Animal Room'new
Animal Room, the debut LP by San Antonio’s Last Nighters, plays like something of a concise history of modern Southern indie music.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
08-16-2012 |
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Bad Breaks: 'Bad Breaks'new
Bad Breaks really captures my attention at the moment of transition into "Seppuku," the album's second (and best) song.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
08-02-2012 |
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MTMTMK: 'The Very Best'new
The marriage of London-based production/DJ duo Radioclit and Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya, The Very Best has yielded both deeply soulful and intoxicatingly carefree moments through two mixtapes and one album before MTMTMK.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
07-27-2012 |
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Nas: 'Life is Good'new
Though universally considered one of the greats, Nas has worked, to some extent, in the shadow of Biggie and 2Pac since his rapturous emergence in 1994.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
07-27-2012 |
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Chris Maddin: 'The Tiago Splitters'new
Chris Maddin's backing band on this album, for whom it is named, is something of a Saytown super-group.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
07-13-2012 |
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Fiona Apple: 'The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do'new
In the fourth coming of Fiona Apple, with its darkly philosophical title that sounds as though Emily Dickinson could have written it, the listener is — at once — therapist, friend, and nemesis.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
06-25-2012 |
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Something Fiction: 'Botany' EPnew
Thanks to their amorphous explorations of genre and musical color, Something Fiction is a difficult group to pin down, placing themselves willfully and delightfully outside the boundaries of convenient classification.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
06-19-2012 |
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Dent May: 'Do Things'new
In a recent complaint from his twitter account (@dentmay), Dent May unwittingly summed up his new album’s character...
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
06-14-2012 |
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Kat Edmonson: 'Way Down Low'new
Everything you need to know about Kat Edmonson is encapsulated on track four of Way Down Low: a reading of the Beach Boys' “I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times.”
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
05-10-2012 |
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Jack White: 'Blunderbuss'new
For those who think of Jack White as a rock god turned eccentric music mogul peddling odd (and awful) one-off collaborative singles from a gaudy yellow taco truck, this album might come as a bit of a surprise.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
05-02-2012 |
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The Mars Volta: 'Noctourniquet'new
The Mars Volta is back. Back from a three-year hiatus, back from the bad Ouija trip of two albums too full of concept, and back to where they left off with the eerily melodic and sculpted chaos of 2006's Amputechture.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
04-05-2012 |
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Cloud Nothings: Attack on Memorynew
In Attack on Memory, Dylan Baldi (recording as Cloud Nothings) has made his most refreshing — even prescient — work.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
02-01-2012 |
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