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Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

Waxing Candles And Burning Cobwebs In Heated Pools

31 March 08

Over the two-plus years that we’ve gotten to know the band and the people who make up Springfield, Missouri’s Someone Still Loves You Boris, they’ve helped us understand ourselves as …

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Deer Tick

A Countryside Of The Gathered And Scattered And Splintered Wood People

28 March 08

Cannery Row is a far cry from the Rhode Island that John McCauley, better known as Deer Tick, has familiarized himself with. It’s an oceanside front of land that’s experienced the …

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Snowblink

Dearheartedness, A New Word Not To Escape From

27 March 08

This is a knitting, something done completely by hand. Snowblink is the same as those hats of one size that barely fit over a strange baby’s ears, those booties for a strange …

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A Week With Wu-Tang Clan's "8 Diagrams": Day 3

26 March 08

As if it weren’t obvious enough, I’ve been listening to a lot of Wu as I write this piece. And probably the most applicable statement on the record is the centerpiece track “Unpredictable,” on which nothing fits into any typical...

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Flight of the Conchords

Flight of the Conchords: When You Were Sleeping, I Put A Wig On You

26 March 08

This is the age of the “couple of guys who share an apartment and who could break into song at any moment” comedy. This bizarre subgenre has a surprisingly clean track record: “The Mighty Boosh,” “Clark and Michael,” “Tenacious D,”...

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Backyard Tire Fire

The Skinny On Old Skin And Old, Weary Bones And The People They Live In

26 March 08

The city of Bloomington, Ill., that the rustic trio known as Backyard Tire Fire calls home is down a stretch of four-lane interstate that takes you slicing diagonally through…

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A Week With Wu-Tang Clan's "8 Diagrams": Day 2

25 March 08

Every separate Wu-Tang artifact – be it Clan albums or solo joints – has it’s own distinctive flavor. Listen to 36 Chambers, Only Built for Cuban Linx, Forever, and Supreme Clientele and you’ll feel the gradual evolution of the

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A Place To Bury Strangers

The Blistering Is On The Outside, On The Inside And It's A Clean Burn

25 March 08

When a chainsaw speaks to another chainsaw, in the middle of a hailstorm, in a world made only of tin siding, that’s what Oliver Ackermann and his New York City band A Place To Bury Strangers would call the softest…

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Best Albums of 2007 -- Luke Temple's "Snowbeast"

Daytrotter's Best 15 Albums of 2007: Luke Temple's "Snowbeast"

24 March 08

The colorful eccentrics that we always hope to meet in life – to strike up a conversation with at the local watering hole, to uncharacteristically mourn over at their wake – are found in staggering numbers in Luke Temple’s truly...

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The Walkmen

The Creature Of Man And His Endless Figuring Over Cursive Lines

24 March 08

Three weeks ago, in San Francisco, The Walkmen flew into town at the end of all roads, a city where you have to either turn around or get wet continuing straight, for an …

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