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The Tough Alliance Have Vodka In Their Veins [Things That Are Awesome] -
The seminal cassette compilation C86, released by the NME back in 1986, has a lot of personal indiepop faves on its tracklist (Miaow, the Shop Assistants, the Close Lobsters), and it opens with Primal Scream's "Velocity Girl." It's a slip of a song about a girl with too many indulgences...
The Tough Alliance -
There was once a time when import albums were accessible only to those willing to shell out the extra $10 per item, the added tariff being a necessary evil in order to gain access to the bonus tracks and rare b-sides that came with these overseas gems. Anyone who has...
The Tough Alliance - The New School / A New Chance -
They say Keith Richards is the ultimate rock’n’roll survivor, but “they” somehow must not have met Brian Wilson. From the moment he entered the world, the founder of the Beach Boys was exposed to a school of hard knocks through the tireless control and abuse of a megalomaniacal father looking...
Not Only Do We Have to Catch Swine Flu, but Now We Can't See, Merzbow? No Fun. And He's Not Playing -
Yup. Japanese noise-monger Merzbow isn’t coming to the states anymore, resulting in the cancellation of his appearance at this year’s No Fun Fest. While part of me thinks it’s some kind of postmodern non-performance art in some way or another, it’s probably not. They...
Lo-Fi-Fnk - Marchin' In -
The Swedish electro duo of Leo Drougge and August Hellsing have been working on a sophomore followup to Lo-Fi-Funk's 2006 Boylife debut. To give you an idea of what to expect, they opted to "leak" a song (because "record releases are such slow working processes"). The sunny "Marchin' In"...
The Radio Dept. - Clinging to a Scheme -
It’s been a head-scratchingly long time since we last heard from The Radio Dept. " four get-a-bloody-move-on years to be exact And despite being together in one form or another since the mid-90s, the group has only put out three records, including this one. Doesn’t usually bode well, does it?...
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