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The Damned
Fugazi
First Demo
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Total Slacker
Tucker Rountree, the wiry-looking singer and guitarist for Total Slacker, is the first image that pops into my brain when I think of modern-day Brooklyn. On paper, the 32-year-old Salt Lake City transplant epitomizes the archetypal bohemian, warehouse-dwelling pipsqueak down to a T, with large, bespectacled eyeballs hidden behind a fringe of blond, moppy hair and clothes that look as if they went extinct in …
Damaged Bug
Hubba Bubba
Mark McGuire
If Julian Cope ever gets around to penning a sequel to his cult classic testimonial, Krautrocksampler, he may consider adding Emeralds’ 2010 double LP, Does It Look Like I’m Here?, to his shortlist of recommended listening. Although four decades removed from the crux of first-wave krautrock—not to mention hailing from the very un-cosmic city of Cleveland, Ohio—there was something enigmatic and fascinating about …
Staff Picks: Chris Sabbath
Best Albums
1. Boards of Canada, Tomorrow’s Harvest (Warp)
2. Grouper, The Man Who Died in His Boat (Kranky)
3. Thee Oh Sees, Floating Coffin (Castle Face)
4. Julianna Barwick, Nepenthe (Dead Oceans)
5. Wire, Change Becomes Us (Pink Flag)
6. Magik Markers, Surrender to the Fantasy (Drag City)
7. The Dead C, Armed Courage (Ba Da Bing!)
8. Tim Hecker, Virgins (Kranky/Paper Bag)
9. …
Cheap Time
Of all the dark, disturbing characters that dwelled in Lou Reed’s sleazy downtown tales, none seemed more innocent then Jenny, the cool New York chick whose “life was saved by rock & roll” on the 1970 Velvet Underground classic “Rock & Roll.” Grime and grit aside, Jeffrey Novak, singer and guitarist for Cheap Time (as well as solo artist), could easily be Jenny’s wide-eyed clone, …
Primitive Calculators
The World Is Fucked
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