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Review: Dirty Projectors – July 17, 2009 at The Earl; Atlanta

marty — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:54:54 +0000

I headed from my friend Andi’s pleasant apartment in East Atlanta to Flat Shoals for Thai before the show on a beautiful and surprisingly cool (for Atlanta) summer evening, so we walked around as long as possible, or so we thought. After they let us in, there was a long delay, which turned out to [...]

Download: Owl and Bear’s Top 20 Albums of 2008

chris maroulakos — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:45:26 +0000

Owl and Bear writers’ favorite albums of 2008. 1. Frightened Rabbit – The Midnight Organ Fight (Fat Cat) The Scottish brothers Hutchison gave us catharsis, creepiness, and cacophony in 2008, and we loved every minute of it—especially the two shows that they played in San Diego. The Midnight Organ Fight is near perfect: each song [...]

Deerhunter – Fluorescent Grey

jon — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:00:32 +0000

2007, Kranky With this EP, Deerhunter accommodates fans put off by Cryptogram‘s decidedly freaked-out sound, without alienating the hopheads and experimentalists who reveled in their full length’s woozy washes and white noise symphonies. I wouldn’t say that Deerhunter have completely scrapped their old modus operandi in favor of poppier accessibility, but Fluorescent Grey is certainly [...]

Pitchfork Music Festival 2007 (II)

jon — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:00:47 +0000

Note: Photos in this essay depict re-enactments of actual events, not the events themselves. Thursday, July 12 McCaskill picked me up at my folks’ house at 9PM. We weren’t planning to leave Jackson until about 1 or 2AM, but we’d decided to hang out a while and say goodbyes because, naturally, we may never come [...]