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Nik Freitas

Nik Freitas: A Chilled Man, THE Chilled Man

31 July 08

Have you ever driven way too long in a car? Maybe you were on your way home from college and you hit Baltimore and DC right at rush hour, or some big truck overheated 40 miles into your drive...

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Sons & Daughters

The Bruises Are Badges, Dance To Them Sirs And Madams

31 July 08

Rubbing your rubbery eyes, the streaks of red blood shots splinter in countless directions, they take focus through the thick film that you’ve just wiped over them from the untouched corners of them. It takes a few …

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A Week With Death Cab For Cutie's "Narrow Stairs": Day 3

30 July 08

Despite, or maybe because of, the relatively complex topics that Death Cab tackles in its music, the amazing feat that Narrow Stairs achieves is its uniquely incandescent sound.

Let’s put aside the very subtle change that Mr. Gibbard’s voice has undertaken...

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The Daredevil Christopher Wright

Hopefulness Is Godliness, Or A Circus

30 July 08

Maybe only when you’re bedside with one of your best friends, talking about the marauding, dictating, warlording cancer that’s laying siege to their body – even if that afternoon things seem better and beating the odds is more than …

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Margot & The Nuclear So and So's

Man's Best Foe Brings The Luxuriance Of Clarity, Despite The Burning

29 July 08

The things that we must never forget are the things that we learn when we’re swimming in booze, when the amber that curtains our eyes is clarity, when all of the painful decisions that have been made by or for us are delivered like …

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A Week With Death Cab For Cutie's "Narrow Stairs: Day 2

29 July 08

So you’ve heard that there’s a new Death Cab album out?

Expect the following: a fresh batch of melodies colored with passionate regret, shame and a unique cast of characters desperate to feel (or not to feel) these emotions. ...

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Icy Demons

Drinking Oranges Through Straws And Macking Out With Precariousness

28 July 08

Once, a long time ago, I made the mistake that was actually no mistake at all. Writing about a musician, a bigger deal than thought necessary was made out of a small, greenish black star tattoo that rested permanently on the meaty …

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Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson

As Much As The Devil Will Allow, Hopefulness And Spring Weather

25 July 08

The first thing that tries to come to mind is a slow-motion montage of crummy, two-toned jalopy cars doing doughnuts in an empty mall parking lot, just laying black rubber onto the concrete beneath lights that are …

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Hallelujah The Hills

As The Ink Slowly Dries, The Death Chronicle Appears

24 July 08

Where I go when I need to just unplug and evaporate from the prickly bushes and barbed wire of the regular days is to the death chronicles of Hallelujah The Hills. It’s where they go to do the same and it’s where they would suggest that …

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Gentleman Auction House

Dancing In That Broken Disco Ball's Light, Ecstatically Beat Up

23 July 08

The gentlemen and gentle lady that we have here in Missouri’s Gentleman Auction House have made themselves poised to be noteworthy with their newest album, Alphabet Graveyard. They’ve done it with …

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