March 2010
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Critically Underrated Albums: Oasis 'Standing On...
A quick nod to an overlooked album from the turn of the century. It’s an Oasis album from just before easy-peasy filesharing for the whole family took off bigstyle, so it’s not as if it didn’t shift units, but critical reception was always mixed and it is never mentioned as one of the best albums in their canon. I find this remarkable. Having returned to their back catalogue for...
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Natural Snow Buildings - The Centauri Agent
The Centauri Agent is a brand-new, free-for-download double LP from Natural Snow Buildings, released on my label Vulpiano Records. As I have mentioned before, I got in touch with Mehdi and Solange, who have been so very cool to me, from writing about their music in an Artist Feature for Sleepwalking Mag in July 2009. As I genuinely adore their music and have included them many times in past...
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Independent Music Discoveries: Issue #30
UPDATES: The Royal Chains - Pop - Nashville, TN/New York, NY The Royal Chains were previously featured on A Future in Noise with Umbrella in May 2009 (which I had said combined “the best of tuneful pop of days gone by with a surprisingly raw edginess”) and their single “Wolf” in October 2009. “Wolf” features on the Bear Island EP (free for download and...
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The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter
I’ve been waiting for this…The Fall are my favorite band -or, rather, Mark E. Smith and whoever is jangling along with him at the time-…ever! I wrote a Starter Guide on them here last year, co-run a Fall-centric Tumblr with AFIN contributor Molecules, and attempt to sway anyone I know and care about their musical well-being into gaining an appreciation for what I previously...