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The Night Marchers: See You in Magic

To be a fan of John "Speedo" Reis is to know tough love. In the past two years alone, the man has stepped away from not one but two of America's most fierce and fearsome indie-rock bands: brass-balled busters Rocket From the Crypt and the deadly Hot ...

From STUART BERMAN, Pitchfork,  24 Jul 2008

Review: The Notwist: The Devil, You + Me

The popular history of the Notwist has been steeped in transformation-- gloomy grunge misanthropes reborn as laptop-pop romantics. But in the six years that have elapsed since the German band's 2002 Stateside breakthrough Neon Golden, the Notwist haven' ...

From STUART BERMAN, Pitchfork,  19 Jun 2008

Review: Mogwai: Young Team (2008 edition)

The current decline of the music industry is of course not so much a catastrophic collapse as a simple market correction: a delayed downturn that should've actually begun in the early 1980s, before major labels cajoled consumers into replacing their ...

From STUART BERMAN, Pitchfork,  16 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Liz Phair,  John Cummings

Review: Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears: Flight of the Knife

As far as puns on rock icons named Brian go, Bryan Scary is as appropriate an appellation for its glam-boyant eponymous frontman as the Brian Jonestown Massacre is for that band's brand of sinister psychedelia. But the kind of scary that Bryan deals in ...

From STUART BERMAN, Pitchfork,  13 Jun 2008

Review: The Death Set: Worldwide

The fusion of rap and heavy metal in the mid-1980s was as inevitable as it was initially novel, what with the premium both genres place on earthquaking drum beats and aggressive phallocentricism. But somewhere in the journey from "Rock Box" to Limp ...

From STUART BERMAN, Pitchfork,  6 Jun 2008

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