April 2009
The Archives
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04.09.09SIMON PILER AND THE ATOM BAND – Songs From Home Lyricsalways greener so they say; autumn rise, but winter fall, blue white blankets over all, and all along that green grass grows spinnin’ and a-spendin’, never to say, “here we’re sown, and here we’ll stay, misted in the droplets of the sprinkler’s spray.” severe is ice and hostile, wind – starkly unfit to survive in. if you think you have money, well, you better be sure. people are drifting from door to door, grasses increase their dormancy, and birds are left to forage. the herald’s horn froze to her lips. soon, all ears ring with notes she splits. and now you know the spring will come, rains gonna fall and roll, roll, roll! warmth is born of the ...
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04.03.09SUCKS TO LALA LAND – Well Under ThirtyOut Today! Now this is exciting. Been a long time since we first heard and were blown away by River Speak English's "Puzzle Piece" on Daydream Generation 2. A year and a half later and we're made up to be hosting one half of the aforementioned collaboration's debut record. "Well Under Thirty" is a collection of Bob Dylan covers by Sucks To LaLa Land's Keith Crain - as well as being a beautiful introduction to this talented singer/songwriter, it's arguably as great a collection of Dylan covers as I've ever heard. Listening to the 8 tracks featured was like discovering Bob ...
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04.02.09Review: FIG MINTS (OF YOUR IMAGINATION) – Excercises In FutilityThe boundaries of home recording equipment have been removed for quite some time. Long gone are the days of four-track cassette machines and bouncing; the art of scotch-tape over the protection tabs on Michael Bolton tapes given as gifts from far removed relatives because the store was closed seems almost lost. Digital interface, non-destructive editing, primitive pitch correction, and a galaxy of on-board effects at "reasonably affordable" prices makes analog craft boxes seem archaic and knucklish. The mix tape is gone, the mp3 era as arrived, and the wake created a great wind that set the lo-fi ...