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Tobias Carroll
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Echoes and Urgency
Damien Jurado Gets Dense
With his new record, Damien Jurado stops wandering and starts getting deep.
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Notes on Collaboration
Sam Amidon’s Group Effort
Sam Amidon’s collaborative folk music hits hard.
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Altered Awareness
The Black Hollies: Looking Backward
“The compositions on Casting Shadows, are entirely sexual, sincere, and honest,” writes Justin Morey via email, and that’s as good a place as any to begin. Morey is the vocalist, bassist, and songwriter for the Black Hollies, a four-piece rock band dwelling in assorted parts of New York and New Jersey. The group has two […]
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Thirtysomething
Sole: Older. Wiser.
“I’m not there to politic,” Sole (AKA Tim Holland) writes. “I’m there for the beauty.” He’s talking about northern Arizona, the area to which the emcee moved in 2006 after a number of years living overseas. “I’m living really far out in the Coconino National Forest. I’ve never lived so far out and I love […]
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Whole Wide World
The Geography of the Cave Singers
Pete Quirk can tell you about the East Coast, the industrial landscapes of Philadelphia, and surfers’ gathering places in central New Jersey. He can also tell you about the cross-country trip he took five years ago that brought him to Seattle, the city he now calls home. “I wanted to see what a city set […]
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Ten Deep
Isis Celebrates a Decade
A decade ago, Isis began life in Massachusetts; a few years later, Isis packed up and traversed the continent to Los Angeles. Their current cross-country trek, though, isn’t behind their recent In the Absence of Truth; rather, it’s to commemorate the band having reached the 10-year mark. “For me,” says guitarist Michael Gallagher, “this is […]
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The Human Condition
Curling Up with the Weakerthans
“We are curling missionaries,” Weakerthans singer/guitarist John K. Samson writes. “I am sure it will soon be bigger than NASCAR.” The fourth song on his band’s new album, Reunion Tour, takes its title from the Tournament of Hearts, the same Canadian women’s curling championship that provided a name for the Constantines’ 2005 album, Tournament of […]
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Precision and Delirium
The National’s New York Sounds
The National is a band of aesthetic pleasures—of Art Deco buildings run through a sharpening filter, of an initial richness hiding an abundance of wit. Speaking of their music in terms of the artists whose songs they’ve covered, or of the sonorous voices to which Matt Berninger’s own throat has been compared, doesn’t ultimately get […]