![Folly & The Hunter - [Album]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4964912_lg.jpg)
ARTIST: Folly & The Hunter - [Album] DATE: 05-22-13 REVIEW BY: Bill Adams What do you say about a record which (at least occasionally) makes you cringe and recoil because some of the sounds on it are just so abhorrent, but it isn't so bad that the idea of listening to it doesn't always make you die a little inside? How does one say, "This record is bad, but not so bad that it's [view more]
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ARTIST: Iggy and The Stooges - [DVD] DATE: 05-20-13 REVIEW BY: Bill Adams The problem with requiems – especially requiems made in tribute to celebrities – is that everybody involved always feels compelled to make sure their voice is heard loud enough that theirs is the one associated with the event. That such a personal thing as a requiem and remembrance is ever co-opted by the vanity of others is [view more]
ARTIST: The SWAG Report 139 with freebie mp3s by artists including The Uncluded, Dawes, Shovels & Rope, GRMLN and more! So much more! DATE: 05-16-13 WRITER: Don Loder Hey junky, How're things goin' where you are, ya wood-armed reprobates? I betcher gettin' a little itchy again, 'specially cause I ain't ben aroun' regular-like ova da las' little while right? Aw, poor junky – well I'm [view more]
ARTIST: The Headstones' Second Year Zero Starting over might be hard but, as the Headstones and their newest album Love + Fury prove, it can be done. Bassist Tim White explains how it all happened. DATE: 05-14-13 WRITER: Bill Adams It's always fun to think that second chances come for those who deserve them, but the fact is that the chance to start over is a truly special rarity – especially for musicians. Forgiving (if only for a moment) is easy enough to do, but forgetting most certainly [...]
ARTIST: The Uncluded Ship Out With their album out now, rock's weirdest duo announces a North American tour. DATE: 05-14-13 WRITER: Ollie Ottoman Last week saw the release of the Uncluded's new album Hokey Fright, but who are the Uncluded? Well, they are none other than Kimya Dawson (from every song on the Juno soundtrack) and Aesop Rock (from every good hip hop song that's not on the [view more]
![Vampire Weekend - [Album]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4949778_lg.jpg)
ARTIST: Vampire Weekend - [Album] DATE: 05-14-13 REVIEW BY: Nicole Beckley "Want a little grace, but who's gonna say a little grace for me?" Ezra Koenig sings on "Unbelievers," the second track on Vampire Weekend's new Modern Vampires of the City . Since landing on the cover of Spin in March 2008, lauded as [view more]
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ARTIST: Headstones - [Album] with free mp3 download for 'LongwaytoNeverland' from Love + Fury by the Headstones DATE: 05-13-13 REVIEW BY: Bill Adams As artists like David Bowie and The Stooges have already proven this year, it is possible for musicians to return and release new albums after long lapses in creative output – but judging how good they are (or aren't) is no easy feat. In the cases of both Bowie and The Stooges, history has basically guaranteed that that both [view more]
ARTIST: Inside The Cathartic Soul of Bipolar Explorer. Daryl "Darko" Barnett sits down with Bipolar Explorer and discusses love, loss, punk rock and how to press forward after enduring crippling heartbreak over lunch. DATE: 05-10-13 WRITER: Daryl Darko Sometimes providence is just meant to rule over situations in life. Things are meant to happen. People meet people. Stories are shared. Songs get sung. This is the way things went in getting this album into my hands. Online strangers meet each other by re-blogging each other's Tumblr images (for [...]
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ARTIST: Bipolar Explorer - [Album] DATE: 05-10-13 REVIEW BY: Elizabeth Madason Of Love and Loss , the new record from NYC-based Bipolar Explorer is something of a departure from their previous work, it is at once quieter and more far-reaching. It is eclectic and spare, and altogether haunting. The band, it turns out, was already staking out new ground before they recorded the [view more]
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ARTIST: The Baptist Generals - [Album] with free mp3 download for Dog That Bit You' from Jackleg Devotional To The Heart by The Baptist Generals DATE: 05-09-13 REVIEW BY: Bill Adams Listening to The Baptist Generals' new album, it seems like it should be important to take a quick look at the history of the label which put it out (Sub Pop) to really understand the release's importance. Founded in Seattle in the mid-Eighties, Sub Pop's original mission was to try and get some of the band's [...]
![Charli XCX - [Album]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4934646_lg.jpg)
ARTIST: Charli XCX - [Album] with free mp3 download of 'Just Desserts,' Charli XCX's duet with Marina and The Diamonds DATE: 05-06-13 REVIEW BY: Nicole Beckley If American listeners have any broad familiarity with Charli XCX, it's most likely thanks to her work on Swedish dance pop duo Icona Pop's "I Love It" – XCX co-wrote and lent her vocals to the rousing dance anthem. With the release of True Romance the British singer [view more]
ARTIST: The SWAG Report 138 with freebie mp3 downloads by artists including Black Flag, Tricky, Way Yes, Rotaries, Pere Ubu, Leif Vollebekk, Run The Jewels, Ian Rubbish, Kazyak and more! So much more! DATE: 05-05-13 WRITER: Don Loder Heyheyhey junky, Awright, I know I usually take a bitta time ta talk some trash right off da top o' my SWAG Reports, but dis week I'm gonna skippit cuz I got somethin' ta talk about. "Whatever might you have to discuss with us Donnie," [...]
ARTIST: Vinyl Vlog 008 A deep look into the grooves of White People and the Damage Done by Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine. DATE: 05-04-13 WRITER: Bill Adams It took a couple of formative years and releases to really get settled and established, but Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine has found its rhythm and released a new, instantly classic album in White People and the Damage Done . Those readers who have heard about this album but haven't actually heard [...]
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ARTIST: Willie Nelson and Family - [Album] DATE: 04-30-13 REVIEW BY: Bill Adams While there's no denying that Heroes (Willie Nelson's first album back on Sony Music) and Let's Face The Music and Dance are very entertaining records, one has to wonder how long it will be before Willie Nelson – arguably one of the greatest, most celebrated and prolific [view more]
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ARTIST: Various Artists - [Album] DATE: 04-30-13 REVIEW BY: Bill Adams If the measure of a songwriter's talent and influence can be found in the list of performers who agree to appear on a tribute album to him, then it's possible that John Denver might be the dark horse winner for being the most influential songwriter of his generation. The proof of possibility can be found on The Music Is [view more]
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ARTIST: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - [Album] with free mp3 download for the title track from Mosquito by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs DATE: 04-29-13 REVIEW BY: G. Murray Thomas On Mosquito , the Yeah Yeah Yeahs seemed determined to tap into our deepest fears. Just a glance down the song titles reads like a list of phobias: "Sacrilege," "Subway," "Mosquito," "Slave," "Buried Alive," [view more]
![Pillowfight - [Album]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4921631_lg.jpg)
ARTIST: Pillowfight - [Album] DATE: 04-29-13 REVIEW BY: G. Murray Thomas I'm not much of a hip hop-head. Maybe I haven't given it enough of a shot, but most of it just doesn't connect with me. I'm not going to try to debate or explain that here, I just bring it up to point out that, while the name Dan the Automator does ring a bell, it doesn't mean a lot to me. In my mind, [view more]
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ARTIST: !!! - [Album] with free mp3 download for 'Slyd' from THR!!!ER by !!! DATE: 04-27-13 REVIEW BY: Bill Adams The concept of "dance-punk" has always been a bit difficult for some punks to grasp/swallow. Some readers may scoff and say that's because those punks simply can't dance (this is possible), but think about it: one of the key elements of punk has always been its urgency. The urgency of punk has always been so [view more]
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ARTIST: Frank Turner - [Album] DATE: 04-27-13 REVIEW BY: Bill Adams Anyone familiar with the history of musicians who try to make the transition from a punk label (like Epitaph or Fat Wreck Chords, for example) to a major conglomerate will understand why both Frank Turner's fans and the singer's critics are looking so awfully hard at Tape Deck Heart – his fifth [view more]
![Low - [Album]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4923655_lg.jpg)
ARTIST: Low - [Album] with free mp3 downloads for 'So Blue' and 'Just Make It Stop' from The Invisible Way by Low DATE: 04-27-13 REVIEW BY: Bill Adams In the early twentieth century, a few very bold writers (including Earnest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald) attempted to illustrate in their writing that there is no hell worse than the drudgery of modern life. It's easy to understand why those writers were preoccupied with such a bleak view; the sense of adventure which came with [...]
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