Lambchop, 'AWCMON', 'NOYOUCMON' (Merge)
Indie-country pranksters punch the clock.
By Mikael Wood 04.01.04 4:00 AM
Wry Nashville twang-pimps Lambchop defy easy definitions the way George “No Show” Jones used to frustrate concert promoters. Indie rockers to the core (sample song title: “I Sucked My Boss’s Dick”), they nonetheless flout the Tao of Lo-Fi.
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The Thrills, 'So Much For The City' (Virgin)
Irish lads soak up the sun.
By Mikael Wood 11.20.03 4:00 AM
Current retro rock boasts its fair share of lovers, liars, and thieves, but scruffily handsome Dubliners the Thrills may be the least bashful fakers out there: Friends since boyhood, the quintet took a working vacation in Southern California.
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Quasi, 'Hot Shit' (Touch and Go) ; Mates of State, 'Team Boo' (Polyvinyl)
Rock couples, happy and otherwise.
By Mikael Wood 11.05.03 4:00 AM
Young America, you’ve found room in your hearts and ducats in your wallets for a zillion indistinguishable emo, neo-garage, and nu-metal bands, and they’ve repaid you handsomely. So how about pouring out a little love for two hardworking indie duos in which a romantically entangled man and woman play sweet-and-sour pop songs on an organ and a drum kit?
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