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- A music critic’s Slugfest
- ur Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present Simon …
- Music this weekend and beyond
A music critic’s Slugfest
Minneapolis Star Tribune MN
(50)TAPES ‘N TAPES "WALK IT FF"Produced by Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips Low) it sounds like a sophomore record by an indie-rock band that spent a year and half on the road promoting its first album: heavier tighter and cockier and standouts like "Hang ‘Em All" and "Headshock" sound tailored to the stage. (TIE) Chris Koza "The Dark Delirious Morning"As the title suggests the third disc by this wistful romantic melody maker celebrates the dark before the dawn with bright bubbling indie-pop arrangements. (42)LUCY MICHELLE & THE VELVET LAPELLES "RANGE PEELS & RATTLESNAKES"The charming quirky young ensemble that topped last fall’s City Pages Picked to Click poll debuted with a Mike Wisti-produced collection of living-room-quality acoustic ditties and bedroom poetry led by a Billie Holiday-ish crooner. (42)PAUL WESTERBERG "49:00"Was this even an album? The former Replacements frontman’s latest um thingie sold for $.
ur Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present Simon …
News & bserver NC
Each of the 500 songs gets a couple hundred words from Pitchfork’s army of hyperliterate contributors. As befits the iPod generation it’s all about individual songs. The songs are arranged semi-chronologically starting from punk’s Year Zero of 1977 but batched contextually so that the collection flows like the world’s most thoughtfully considered mixtape. So for instance first wave hip-hop (Grandmaster Flash) might lead into concurrent New York City art rock of the early 1980s (Talking Heads) then over to Europe (Kraftwerk) and back again into the day’s chart-topping pop (the Go-Go’s). Sidebar essays document many fascinating subtopics including the riot-grrrl thing and the Songs That Killed Careers. The writing is for the most part entertaining insightful and admirably restrained. Pitchfork haters like to gripe about its hipper-than-thou opaqueness but often the Web site’s output is simply smarter than we’re used to.
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Music this weekend and beyond
Philadelphia Daily News PA
The Dickies: Reunited L. punk band from the ’80s is the missing link between the Ramones and Green Day. Between the jokes are real songs. With New York City punk rock girl queens Kitty and the Kowalskis the surf-punk of the Slotcars and the Trakes.