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ENS West Coast contributor Dave Tobias hit another great show recently and is generous enough to share his experience. Check out his review of Jim James below.
Jim James’ solo tour behind his underrated debut, Regions of Light and Sound of God, swung through San Francisco …
15 May 2013
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Get ready for another batch of Cheese Coney album reviews from John Crowell…..
Marnie Stern
The Chronicles of Marnia
Kill Rock Stars
1/5
Marnie Stern makes guitar rock for people who don’t know anything about guitars and who don’t like rock music. I can’t really think of anything about her that doesn’t peel the skin …
22 March 2013
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My Bloody Valentine
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Pickpocket
4.5 out of 5
Kevin Shields spent 22 years painting himself into a corner, and just jumped out of it in the best possible way. There were so many questions and expectations about whatever record would follow the holiest of holies, the classic Loveless, that it amazing …
20 February 2013
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It’s a new year, so that means new content for Each Note Secure. Every couple weeks or so, I’ll be reviewing a handful of new records. These reviews will be less about whether or not an album is objectively “good” and more about whether it’s cool and/or interesting and/or worth …
8 February 2013
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It’s been an interesting year for music, not the best and not the worst but a year with plenty to talk about. Here are my favorite albums of 2012.
21 December 2012
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A consensus pick as one of last year’s top albums, the momentum behind Ty Segall’s Goodbye Bread has already carried over into 2012 with the San Fransisco garage punk’s collaboration with White Fence (Tim Presley). Listenability an increasingly moot concern, Segall continued his breakneck string of acclaimed albums about a …
19 July 2012
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I’m always hesitant when I see an artist compared to another artist so frequently. And my hesitation was at a pretty high level when I hit play on the James Vincent McMorrow album for the first time. I’m a big fan of the work Justin Vernon has done in the past few years under the Bon Iver guise.
24 January 2011
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If you like your guitars thick and drony, you probably will love Surf City. The New Zealand based band has just released a new record, and it’s flying way below the radar.
3 December 2010
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Welcome to a new feature on Each Note Secure we like to call “Reclaimed.” This feature will focus on an album of the past, maybe 30 years ago, or maybe 3 years ago. With the onslaught of new music that is thrust upon us everyday, it’s fun to look back at something we really loved and getting reintroduced to it.
25 May 2010
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I remember the first time I listened to Horse Feathers. I was driving south on I-71 heading to Louisville, Kentucky and it was the kind of morning where when the sun rises, it immediately wakes you up to the day. I was awoken to Justin Ringle and his unique and soothing vocals that morning, with their second album House With No Home.
16 April 2010
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