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Semi Precious Weapons – You Love You
June 22, 2010, 9:23 am
Rating: /10
“I can’t pay my rent, but I’m fucking gorgeous.” So goes the first line of Semi Precious Weapons’ self-titled opening …
Rufus Wainwright – All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu
June 14, 2010, 9:25 am
Rating: /10
Perennially brooding troubadour Rufus Wainwright would be an enigma if not for the fact that everything about him is laid …
Shelby Lynne – Tears, Lies, and Alibis
June 11, 2010, 9:32 am
Rating: /10
Countrified stalwart Shelby Lynne’s latest — Tears, Lies, and Alibis — kick-starts with the jouncy pop of “Rains Came” and …
Jennifer Knapp: Part Two
May 20, 2010, 12:00 am
In arguably the most complete interview available anywhere, our writer, Jonathan Scott, set about the task of interviewing Jennifer Knapp, …
Jennifer Knapp: Part One
May 19, 2010, 12:00 am
Vulnerable. Confident. Craft. Relationship. Journey.
These are the predominant words in Jennifer Knapp’s vocabulary these days. After an eight-year self-imposed exile …
Goldfrapp – Head First
April 19, 2010, 9:40 am
Rating: /10
If music is visual, as Alison Goldfrapp believes, then to regard the cover art of her electronic act’s fifth and …
Girl Talk – Live @ the Murat
April 12, 2010, 11:51 am
While a Celtic group played in the Murat Centre’s main theater in Indianapolis, self-branded “not-a-DJ” Girl Talk (née Gregg Gillis) …
Peter Gabriel – Scratch My Back
March 2, 2010, 9:23 am
Rating: /10
What is it that compels a mature gent to wish to cover the hallmark songs a generation or two after …
Hot Chip – One Life Stand
February 17, 2010, 6:42 pm
Rating: /10
Some sort of intergalactic church organ opens the song “Thieves in the Night” to start Hot Chip’s latest outing – …
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On the Occasion of a Christian Rock Chick’s Coming Out
April 20, 2010, 4:58 pm
“I know they’ll bury me/ Before they hear the whole story”
-Jennifer Knapp, “Inside”
It was bound to happen: Girl finds God. …
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