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KUPS STAFF on April 23rd, 2009
John Vanderslice will follow up his 2007 hit Emerald City with his seventh album Romanian Names. While recording Emerald City Vanderslice was in the middle of a customs battle trying to obtain a visa for his French girlfriend (now wife), and the album reflects his frustration as well as references
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KUPS STAFF on April 9th, 2009
Rooted in elements of musical psychedelia, a movement slowly reemerging, Vampire Hands brings to listeners their second full-length release, Me & U Cherry Red, coupled with a re-release of their first EP, Cruz It’s a Beach Funeral. Made up of Minnesotans Alex on drums, Chris B. on bass, Chris R.
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KUPS STAFF on March 12th, 2009
Luke Temple has just released/engineered/produced an album under the moniker Here We Go Magic, a new project that far surpasses Temple's earlier indie folk rock efforts. After releasing "Snowbeast" in 2007, Temple caught the attention of Ben Gibbard and Sufjan Stevens, which perhaps inspired him to do something a little
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KUPS STAFF on March 4th, 2009
Marco Benevento's new solo album, Me Not Me, explores a wide range of instrumental covers as well as a few original compositions. Me Not Me is Benevento's second solo album, following 2008's Invisible Baby, and is the first on his new record label, The Royal Potato Family. Reed Mathis (Jacob
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KUPS STAFF on February 26th, 2009
DM Stith is David Smith, the son of a college wind ensemble director and a pianist. His musical childhood deeply influenced his first album, Heavy Ghost, out March 10th on Asthmatic Kitty. His songs have an ornate orchestral quality similar to that of label mate Sufjan Stevens but darker and
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KUPS STAFF on February 19th, 2009
I’m a big fan of microhouse and minimal techno, but they are beginning to sound old and tired. Actually, veterans of the scene would tell you that it began to sound old and tired a long time ago. Producers are using drum patterns and synths that are too similar to
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KUPS STAFF on February 12th, 2009
Until now, the alternative world had yet to listen to a record distinguished by the distinctive, lively twang of the ukulele. Dent May released his debut album on Feb. 3, entitled The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele. This ukulele connoisseur hails from Taylor, Mississippi and
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KUPS STAFF on February 5th, 2009
It's a pretty commonplace phenomenon in pop music nowadays: the band that quotes (rips off) Pet Sounds, Loaded, or Closer without so much as a single step in a new direction. Today’s pop music is so safe my faith in the medium was beginning to waver. And then Animal Collective
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KUPS STAFF on November 6th, 2008
Rituals, the newest band on the Tacoma music circuit, features an impressively versatile trio of musicians: Matty McBride on guitar, vocals, keyboards and samples; Elliott Snyder on drums, guitar, and vocals; and Cullen Eisner-Terrill on drums, keyboards, and vocals. I really appreciate bands that can multitask the way Rituals does.
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