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Sep 01, 2010
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By Patrick Sisson
L.A. trio Autolux strikes a rich vein of guitar and bass
tones, recalls the dark, prickly melodies of Blonde
Redhead and Sonic Youth, and roughs everything
up with drummer Carla Azar’s heavyweight
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Sep 01, 2010
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Whether referred to by his given name, Jahmek Power,
or his alter ego, the Murkle Man, East London’s Jammer
sounds like a superhero. And he operates from a
secret headquarters: home studio the Dungeon, from
which he has spent
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Sep 01, 2010
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At first listen, nothing about Francis and the
Light’s debut full-length, It’ll Be Better strikes you
as particularly complex. A rich, beautiful mix of
pop and R&B, the songs feature stripped down
arrangements held
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Sep 01, 2010
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The Mystery Jets could have been victims of a
“too many cooks” situation—but not anymore.
Three out of the four members of the UK band
are songwriters. Tying their ideas together for
the Jets’ fourth album, Serotonin, is
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Sep 01, 2010
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Grammy Award winning producer DJ guitarist Mark Ronson mines past
and present with the help of Boy George, the Dap-Kings, Duran Duran,
Afrobeat, and stacks of analog synths on Record Collection
Holed up in London’s
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Sep 01, 2010
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It’s never easy to go back to the drawing board, especially
when you’re in the middle of what might be your
most anticipated album yet. But in the spring of 2009,
New York’s glam rock champions Scissor Sisters did
just that,
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Sep 01, 2010
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Rapper, producer, and Def Jux label founder, El-P,
has a little story he wants to tell you . . . make that a
big one—a pretty damn scary one, too. As a solo
artist and frontman for hip-hop group Company
Flow, and producer of
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Sep 01, 2010
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Andy Johns has the best ears for guitar sound
anywhere, and he came by them honestly. At one of his
earliest sessions, working as an 18-year-old second
engineer to Eddie Kramer on the Jimi Hendrix session
that would become
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Aug 01, 2010
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By Patrick Sisson
School of Seven Bells (left to right)—Alejandra
Deheza, Benjamin Curtis, and Claudia Deheza.
The Cocteau Twin-esque dream pop of School of
Seven Bells contains a particular mix of weighty and
weightless
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Aug 01, 2010
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A collaborative project by electronic pop duo Matmos
and New York’s avant-classical ensemble So
Percussion, Treasure State [Cantaloupe] is so jampacked
with compositional and engineering
processes that even Matmos’ M.C.
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Aug 01, 2010
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Booka Shade—Arno Kammermeier
(left) and Walter Merziger.
Electronic artists tend to evolve in circles. They
start with club-friendly numbers, shift to songbased
compositions, then return to their dancetrack
roots. Berlin,
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Aug 01, 2010
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Tommy McLaughlin (left) takes a nap on
the mixing board, while Conor O’Brien
hangs out in the foreground.
Sometimes sparse and quiet, sometimes
dramatic, Villagers’ debut album, Becoming a
Jackal [Domino] is fragile and
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Aug 01, 2010
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Sheryl Crow returns to the funky soul music of her
youth (and her collection of classic analog gear)
to inform 100 Miles from Memphis
“I have always been a gear head,” Sheryl Crow says
from a Manhattan hotel, “because of
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Aug 01, 2010
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Midnight Juggernauts on Creating the
Jam-Inspired, Processed Layers Inside
The Crystal Axis’Wall of SoundEngineer Chris Moore.
Melbourne, Australia’s Midnight Juggernauts are
used to the DIY way: They write separately,
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Aug 01, 2010
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“It’s true I found myself having to pull back and come
up with a different sound on this record,” says singer
and Erasure frontman Andy Bell, explaining how
Mute label founder Daniel Miller urged him to switch
gears from the
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