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mackro wrote:In turn, the Arcade Fire's popularity has been able to allow Merge the opportunity to release a whole bunch of cool underground NZ stuff under the radar...
Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:Shin guards for all!
Christopher_Dragon wrote:Pitchfork Media Can Suck My Cock
LVP wrote:If, say, 10% of lions tried to kill gazelles, compared with 10% of savannah animals in general, I think that gazelle would be a lousy racist jerk.
Christopher_Dragon wrote:If you're into ambient/drone stuff then you should check out
On Tape & The Sad Mac by Stephan Mathieu
Periphery by Christopher Bissonnette
John Zorn recently released a great album by Korean cellist Okyung Lee called Nihm. Amazingly great record.
Not much else as far as recent finds go.
n.c. wrote:The truly dangerous thing about Pitchfork (and this will probably only be true for another 1-3 years) is that they are seriously shaping the face of music. I don't want to get into why I know this, but a really good Pitchfork reveiw instantly translates into sales and people going out to see the band reveiwed.
Like, a lot.
Don't get me wrong LOTS of other factors play into this. But when Pitchfork gives you anything above an 8.5 you are golden. What other single 'publication' has that effect? Rolling Stone? nope, Spin? nope.
Recently some freinds of mine The Dead Science were reveiwed on Pithcfork and the entire reveiw was about how The Dead Sciene were a Xiu Xiu band. That Xiu Xiu had defined a genre and The Dead Science were a band in that genre. Okay, then they neglect to mention that several members of The Dead Science have played on several Xiu Xiu records and have been in touring line-ups of Xiu Xiu. They also neglect to mention that The Dead Science SOUND ABSOLUTELY NOTHING LIKE XIU XIU. Aside from the fact that they have a singer/guitarist, there are NO similarities in sound.
Anyways, The Dead Science's new record "Frost Giant" is one of my top 5 of the year.
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