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Camera Obscura continues to make catchy and dare I say pretty indie pop music. On thier second full length album with Merge records the six piece Scottish band seems to be hitting on all cylinders. Known already for her clever songwriting, Tracyanne Campbell adds a element of sincerity …

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In this day and age of overdubbed vocals, electronic indused guitar hooks and sample crazy songs what does someone as stripped down and honest as Jose Gonzalez have to offer? Gonzalez, who has enjoyed success in Scandanavia and the UK has finally made his way over to the US …

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Gary Reynolds and The Brides of Obscurity gave me a bit of a surprise recently. You see, the album, “Instant Happiness” arrived in my mailbox some time ago and after the first listen I thought it was pretty good. But the surprise was my return to the disc …

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One of the biggest successful marriages of last year was the collaboration between Iron and Wine and Calexico. This year early on we find another collab with big potential in Tortoise and Bonnie Prince Billy. What might seem again like an unlikely meld, these two have taken on …

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Bob Pollard is Guided by Voices. He is the main and only constant in the lineup from Dayton, Ohio that churned out 17 full length albums in their nearly 20 year tenure on the indie scene. If you don’t know who Guide By Voices, then you probably have little …

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Matt Pond PA are a consistent band. And when it comes to music, consistency can be good, and bad. It seems you know a new MP album will drop every year, this is the fifth from the band in the past five years. You know the quartet …

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The one word that has been thrown around when the discussion of Nicklecreek has come up that I am completely tired of is “new grass”. Many have attempted to tag them with this pseudo genre tag to describe the bands mix of bluegrass sound with young energetic vocals and …

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I want to welcome and new reviewer to ENS. Joshua is a music nut like myself and has excellent taste. Hes also quite the writer. Stay tuned for more of his reviews, today he starts off with the new one from Stephen Malkmus.
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The “big break” for indie artists these days many times seems to happen after a feature in a Volkswagen commercial or other equivalent hipster car ad. It happened to The Walkmen after all. Which makes one wonder how Matt Hales of Aqualung got left out in the cold. …