Hedvig Mollestad Trio – Enfant Terrible (2014) Smoking a random pinecone in the middle of the woods and finding out while eating breakfast the next morning that you can bend…
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Around 2005, pop-punk’s glorious infusion with emo sensibilities and subject matter reached its artistic (and commercial) peak. With albums like Motion City Soundtrack’s Commit This To Memory, The Starting Line’s…
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Thin Lizzy – Bad Reputation (1977) A card game that breaks out in the middle of a bar fight that had broken out in the middle of a card game.…
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Art and Music goes for a finely crafted art pop album on the highly evocative “Who are They”. Over the course of “Who are They” Art and Music tap into…
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Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down, Darkness be over me, my rest a stone; Yet in my dreams I’d be nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer, my God,…
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Glenn Murawski exhibits tremendous patience and restraint on the painterly “Existential Chambers”. Representing true love for the surroundings, there is something infinitely soothing about his music. By giving every gesture…
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Red House Painters – Down Colorful Hill (1992) You read Ulyssesin one sitting and then very slowly describe to your therapist what you see on various Rorschach tests. *…
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When I first picked up Catch For Us The Foxesback in high school, my first foray into the band’s catalogue) I couldn’t put it down. Not only does it completely…
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Kitty Wells – Country Music Time (1964) A very sweet woman who makes homemade whiskey and homemade poison and puts them in the same type of bottle so you know…
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Why did 2018 have to be so long? This year felt like 8 years shoved into one year. I don’t know why 2018 insisted upon this length. Other years got…
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The first song I remember sharing on Facebook out of heartbreak was “I Luv the Valley OH!” by the American experimental band Xiu Xiu. I shared it after I found…
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Serge Gainsbourg – Historie de Melody Nelson (1971) Puffs of smoke gang-banging the cigarette they came from. * * * Rilo Kiley – Take Offs & Landings…
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In order to talk about this album, it’s impossible for me not to talk about everything that I love about Mike Kinsella. Mike Kinsella is Owen. He plays every instrument and…