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7 Reasons To Go To Hardly Strictly Music Festival

7 Reasons To Go To Hardly Strictly Music Festival

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Fall has finally arrived in San Francisco and to ring in this cozy season is one of our favorite events, Hardly Strictly! If this is your first fall in the city, you cannot miss out on this weekend-long bluegrass festival. And if you're not in the Bay Area, this is definitely worth the drive. Almost five years since F. Warren Hellman’s passing, his philanth[...]
Album Review: Yesway's Self-Tited LP

Album Review: Yesway's Self-Tited LP

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The spectres of folk music's past haunt Yesway's self-titled début album. While such a description might serve to paint these newly emergent songwriters as gothic miserablists, these spirits are very much benevolent ones, content to waft with a gleeful fervour out in the open air, before dissolving into dewy embers with the morning's first light. Sounds floa[...]
Album Review: Basement Jaxx

Album Review: Basement Jaxx "Junto"

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With the sudden re-emergence of electronic music's favorite son, the Aphex Twin, it seems that electronica/EDM/that car alarm sound (whatever you want to call it) is falling into a particularly ruminative period; a self-reflective time to allow genre-heads to recollect and examine the general state of the genre as a whole. Now, electronic music - repackaged [...]
Album Review: This Will Destroy You

Album Review: This Will Destroy You "Another Language"

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Ah, post rock. Crescendos, melodic and cinematic interweaving guitar play. Beautiful songs that were made for dramatic movie scenes. I would listen to you all day, every day. But that was ten plus years ago before a slew of bands came along with the imprint and did nothing with it beyond unashamedly copying. The bands to survive this; Mogwai, Sigur Ros, Gods[...]
Album Review: Cymbals Eat Guitars

Album Review: Cymbals Eat Guitars "LOSE"

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On their LP no.3 New York-based Cymbals Eat Guitars present nine unwieldy song-shapes, ranging from fast and breezy punk to dramatic, overlong experiments in sound. All the while such aural chaos serves to accommodate the unfurling narratives of songwriter and vocalist Joseph D'Agostino, as his commandeering vocal style more than frequently overspills the st[...]