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Part 1: From Admiral Radley to Glasser < PopMatters

January 17, 2011 / Leave a Comment

Part 1: From Admiral Radley to Glasser < PopMatters. I wrote about Everyone Everywhere’s self-titled album and Extra Life’s Made Flesh for PopMatters’ “Slipped Discs” feature.

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Posted in: Freelance Work Tagged: Everyone Everywhere, Extra Life, music, PopMatters

Extra Life: Beyond Comparison

June 14, 2010 / Leave a Comment

Some musicians flounder when asked to create and perform new material on short notice. Extra Life frontman Charlie Looker isn’t one of them. In 2006, Looker was asked to perform a solo set at The Stone in the East Village. Looker didn’t have any solo material, as he’d been spending his nights exploring the esoteric … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Billboard 200, Björk, Brooklyn, Charlie Looker, David Byrne, Dirty Projectors, Extra Life, Grizzly Bear, Made Flesh, music, Rise Above, TV On The Radio, Zs

Something To Look Forward To: 2010 Music Releases

January 4, 2010 / Leave a Comment

“Gimme something to look forward to,” Britt Daniel sang on Spoon’s 2002 album, Kill The Moonlight. And with every new year, there’s a great list of upcoming releases by musicians to impatiently look forward to with every blog post on “Band A” or “Band B.” Spoon is one of those groups that’s bound to get … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Balmorhea, Band of Horses, Battles, Beach House, Black Francis, Britt Daniel, Broken Bells, Dinowalrus, Dr. Dog, Extra Life, Fleet Foxes, Flying Lotus, Food For Animals, Frightened Rabbit, Future Islands, Gorillaz, Gowns, Hot Chip, Imperial China, Interpol, Joie De Vivre, Juiceboxxx, Kill The Moonlight, Lairs, LCD Soundsystem, Maritime, Massive Attack, Medications, Midlake, Monument, music, New Young Pony Club, No Age, OK Go, OutKast, Ruby Suns, School of Seven Bells, Sleigh Bells, Spoon, Surfer Blood, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, The Arcade Fire, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Hold Steady, The Magnetic Fields, The National, The Wrens, Tigers Jaw, Toro Y Moi, Yeasayer

Best Concerts of 2008

December 23, 2008 / 1 Comment

The best live shows of 2008

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: After the Jump Festival, Baltimore Round Robin, Baltimre, best concerts of 2008, Boredoms, Boston, Brooklyn, Chairlift, Dan Deacon, Double Dagger, Dr. Dog, Drive By Truckers, Edie Sedgwick, emo, Extra Life, Feet Night, Future Islands, Iron & Wine, Liars, Mark Kozelek, Mass Art, MFA, Mission of Burma, music, New York, No Age, Northampton, Noveller, Nuclear Power Pants, Orpheum, Oxfam Cafe, Paradise Rock Club, Parts & Labor, Pattern Is Movement, Pearl Street, Philadelphia, phonograph cylinder, Ponytail, Red House Painters, Rickenbacker Park, Shudder To Think, Siren Music Festival, Smartgrowth, Somerville, Subtle, Sun Kil Moon, Talking Head, The Deathset, The Hold Steady, the Middle East Upstairs, Thomas Edison, TV On The Radio, Union Square, Videohippos, Vs., Why?, Wilbur Theater, Zach Hill

Top o' 2008

December 12, 2008 / 3 Comments

A countdown of the best albums of 2008, in all their colors.

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: (k)no(w)here, 03/07-09/07, 808s and Heartbreak, Alias, All Together, Alopecia, Alpinisms, AmpLive, Antidotes, Apollo Sunshine, April, Atmosphere, Attack & Release, Beach House, Beck, Belly, best albums of 2008, Bon Iver, Chad VanGaalen, Dan Friel, Dananananaykroyd, Dear Science, Death Vessel, Devotion, Doomtree, Double Dagger, Dr. Dog, Eagles of Death Metal, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Edie Sedgwick, El Ten Eleven, emo, Escapers Two, Exiting Arm, Extra Life, Fall Out Boy, Fate, Fleet Foxes, Foals, Folie á Deux, Food For Animals, For Emma Forever Ago, Forest Fire, Friendly Fires, Fuck Buttons, Fucked Up, Future Islands, Ghost Town, Guns Babes Lemonade, HEALTH, HEALTH/DISCO, Heart On, Heavy Heavy Low Low, Hercules And Love Affair, High Places, HLLLYH, Hot Chip, Hot Club de Paris, Ice Cream Spiritual, iii, In Rainbows, Ire Works, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Live at Dead Lake, London Zoo, Lykkie Li, Made In The Dark, Marnie Stern, Milosh, Mixtape About Nothing, Modern Guilt, Muscles, music, Neon Neon, No Age, Nothing Is Precious Enough For Us, Nouns, Parts & Labor, Pattern Is Movement, Ponytail, Primary Colours, Radiohead, Ragged Rubble, RainyDayz Remixes, Receivers, Resurgam, School of Seven Bells, Secular Works, Shall Noise Upon, Sissy Hits, Soft Airplane, Songs in A&E, Spiritualized, Stainless Style, Street Horrsing, Strictly Leakage, Subtle, Sun Kil Moon, Survival, Tha Carter III, The Black Keys, The Bug, The Chemistry of Common Life, The Devil You + Me, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Dodos, The Mae Shi, The Notwist, The Very Best, The Very Best Mixtape, These Promises Are Being Videotaped, Things Are Getting Sinister And Sinisterer, This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That an, Turtle Nipple and the Toxic Shock, TV On The Radio, Unbeast the Leash, Viddeohippos, Videohippos, Visiter, Wale, Wave Like Home, When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That Shit Gold, Why?, Wilderness, Youth Novels

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