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Neutral Milk Hotel’s The Collected Works of Neutral Milk Hotel

Posted on 8th February 2023 by Gary Whitehouse

Fans of the influential indie rock band Neutral Milk Hotel have cause for celebration, as Merge Records releases a substantial box set titled The Collected Works of Neutral Milk Hotel on vinyl and digitally. There may be some ambivalence among … Continue reading →

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Modern Nature’s Island of Noise

Posted on 23rd November 2021 by Gary Whitehouse

This fascinating and engaging disc is part of an impressive box set created by Modern Nature’s Jack Cooper as inspired by a re-reading of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and its relevance to our current moment. Be not afeard, the isle is … Continue reading →

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Daniel Norgren’s Daniel Norgren Live

Posted on 8th January 2021 by Gary Whitehouse

Daniel Norgren’s Wooh Dang was one of my favorite albums of 2019, and his live show that I saw in Portland in October of that year was startling and uplifting – and also one of the last live shows I … Continue reading →

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Suuns’ Fiction EP

Posted on 13th October 2020 by Gary Whitehouse

Suuns is a Montreal-based band whose music is an intriguing blend of guitar-keyboard post-rock music and experimental electronic elements. And when Ben Shemie, Liam O’Neill and Joseph Yarmush team up with their longtime friend Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (who performs as … Continue reading →

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Nap Eyes’ Snapshot of a Beginner

Posted on 1st April 2020 by Gary Whitehouse

Nigel Chapman gives himself a good talking to on Snapshot of a Beginner, the new album by Nap Eyes. And what he tells himself is something that we all might learn from too. This is the fourth album in eight … Continue reading →

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Modern Nature’s How To Live

Posted on 18th August 2019 by Gary Whitehouse

I may not be listening to Modern Nature’s How To Live right, but know what? I don’t care! And somehow I don’t think frontman Jack Cooper would care much, either. Modern Nature is a new project for Cooper, who also … Continue reading →

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Daniel Norgren’s Wooh Dang

Posted on 7th April 2019 by Gary Whitehouse

You know it’s true love when a Swede compares you to coffee, right? “You’re the coffee in my cup / you’re the one who woke me up …” So Daniel Norgren croons on the sweet, gospel-tinged love song “The Day … Continue reading →

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Chris Stamey’s Travels in the South

Posted on 27th October 2004 by Gary Whitehouse

Chris Stamey is an indie-rock institution. He helped define rootsy independent rock in the late 1970s and early 1980s as part of The dBs. Since then, the Chapel Hill native has labored away under the radar as a solo act, … Continue reading →

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