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Daniel Kirschenbaum

Yeasayer’s Odd Blood: A to F

Coming across an album comprised of songs ranging from outstanding to terrible is a frequent enough occurrence to render this sentence almost completely redundant. Sometimes though, it seems like bands actually go …

Keith Jopling

Submitting to Digital

I’ve finally gone and done it. On Friday, I bought my last CD (arrived today, I Am Kloot new album Sky at Night, along with the new Janelle Monae and Dark Night …

Michael Roe

What does America’s Got Talent and Matador Records have in common (as well as yuppies and hipsters)?

I’m a member of GenerationX, which means two things (besides I subscribe to labels): I’m old, and I’m a hater. I can’t change one, and I wouldn’t change the other. Also, I …

Mark Mansfield

On The Nature of Music

Music has always been among the most intangible of the arts, unlike the painter’s brushstroke, still there after 500 years, or the sculptures that are found in the tombs of ancient Egypt, …

Mark Mansfield

On The Power Of Music

It’s been said that music has the power to soothe the savage beast. Though the phrase is actually a misquote, the truth of it has kept it in our consciousness. But what …

Keith Jopling

Will More Great Catalogue Now Come Back From Exile?

Have you listened to Exile on Main Street lately? If not, then you will surely have at least been curious to do so. It’s been nothing if not omnipresent for …