The Dirty Projectors
March-April 2008
By William Goodman 01.30.08 2:37 PM
Brooklyn's eclectic, experimental rockers Dirty Projectors will hit the road this spring on a 12-date outing, set to unroll March 28 in Worchester, MA, following the band's return from a three-date European showing at the Maximum Black Festival alongside
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Destroyer
SXSW, April, May 2008
By William Goodman 01.30.08 12:37 PM
It was only a matter of time; hewing closely to the 'announce album, release album, tour behind album' formula, Canadian songsmith Dan Bejar, a.k.a.
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The Loved Ones 'Bridge' Genres
Exclusive! Download the boozy guitars and punk sneers of "The Bridge," off this Philadelphia quartet's forthcoming LP, 'Build & Burn.'
By William Goodman 01.29.08 10:10 PM
Since their inception in 2003, the City of Brotherly Love's the Loved Ones have blended two genres, delivering furious punk and catchy bar-rock in snappy sneers and beer soaked, piercing riffage, while hewing just slightly closer to Mohawk rather than saloon ethos.
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Wu-Tang Clan, '8 Diagrams'
Was RZA networking when he should have been beatmaking?
By Thomas Golianopoulos 01.25.08 5:22 PM
It's been a rough millennium for Wu-Tang Clan. Their fourth album, 2001's Iron Flag, tanked; their most charismatic member, Ol' Dirty Bastard, died from a drug overdose; and infighting reduced the most important hip-hop crew of the '90s to a touring nostalgia act. 8 Diagrams doesn't reverse the decline.
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Battles, 'Mirrored' (Warp)
Songs guaranteed to start a mosh pit at band camp.
By Marc Hogan 01.18.08 4:17 AM
