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Last Year's Mennew
Not quite out of high school, Last Year's Men have made one of the year's most addictive records.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
10-25-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
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Maple Stave Speaks With Its Musicnew
As a band, they're better than ever before on their new LP1. As analysts of their own music, they still struggle.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
10-14-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
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The Ironies and Energy of La Excelencia's Hard Salsanew
Powered by old-fashioned methods and ideals, La Excelencia has attracted the label "steam salsa" from one critic—they're taking an obsolete power source and retrofitting it for the modern age.
INDY Week |
Sylvia Pfeiffenberger |
10-14-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: La Excelencia
Cattle Decapitation: Metal Vocals Are More Than Just Screamingnew
The first complaint is never the squealing guitars or abrupt rhythms; the vocals are always the obstacle, and one often worth overcoming.
INDY Week |
Bryan Reed |
10-13-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cattle Decapitation
Minus Sound Research Has Nearly Perfected Its Formulanew
Minus Sound Research, which curates and presents the visual art of local musicians in galleries, reinvents itself for its fifth-anniversary show.
INDY Week |
Brian Howe |
10-08-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
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North Elementary: Southern Rescue Trailsnew
On their second LP in as many years, North Elementary by turns yearns with awe toward boundless possibilities and bemoans the vexation of not fulfilling that potential.
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James Dunn's The Bed We Madenew
With this third release, James Dunn finds himself between rock and a chart place.
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The Small Ponds' Caitlin Cary & Matt Douglas Are The Small Pondsnew
Caitlin Cary could start a goddamn grindcore band and she'd still be tagged popularly as an alt-country siren.
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Superchunk Reinforces Its Legacynew
Superchunk's ninth album, and first in nine years, doesn't reinvent the band but instead simply finds them doing what they do best, better than they've done it in more than a decade.
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The Moaners' Nocturnalnew
On Nocturnal, The Moaners' third and most varied album, Melissa Swingle and Laura King preside over a set of songs as idiosyncratic as their frontwoman's delivery.
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Embarrassing Fruits' Frontier Justicenew
As they continue to age, Embarrassing Fruits look more and more like a band we'd like to grow older with.
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Superchunk's Discographynew
Majesty Shredding could very well be the best album of the band's career.
INDY Week |
David Raposa |
09-17-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Superchunk
Valient Thorr's Strangernew
Valient Thorr still finds its distinction by directing its menace at deserving targets via social commentaries charged by precision and power.
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The Body Might Have the Most Terrifying, Electrifying Album of the Yearnew
All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood takes doom metal -- that is, the most torturously heavy and slow music you can imagine -- and reshapes it with zeal.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
09-02-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Body
Jim Avett's Tribesnew
With six of its seven songs being Avett originals, Tribes can be considered Avett's proper debut as a country music singer-songwriter.
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