Articles by Alex Molotkow

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Modern Currencies

PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2007

The name that immediately jumps out of Modern Currencies’ liner notes is — let’s just admit it — Melissa Auf Der Maur, who sings back-up on...

Múm

The Peel Session

PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2007

Múm’s Peel Sessions were recorded in 2002 — they feature four alternate versions of songs that were available on the Icelandic electronic g...

Chris Garneau

Music for Tourists

PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2007

Chris Garneau’s debut release should be awful — for starters, the artist is a sensitive American singer-songwriter, presumably in his 20s....

The Art and Form of <b>Joanna Newsom</b>

PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2007

People immersed in lifelong alternative schooling can take a lot of heat in the real world. Yet sometimes their uniqueness gives them such...

Ryan Stanley

This Mountain is a Hill

PUBLISHED Feb 16, 2007

Ryan Stanley is self-proclaimed "bedroom recorder,” whose pop rock songs are well worth a listen. Until recently he played in GTA emo hall-...

Deerhoof

Play Well With Others

PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2007

On a tiny island off the coast of Maine, 300 students from kindergarten to grade 12 are putting on a school musical. There are no painted b...

Nellie Mckay

Pretty Little Head

PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2007

A line from the song "My Mama & Me” just about sums up Nellie McKay: "never had Nintendo/saw a lot of Brecht though.” At times, she seems t...

Alasdair Roberts

The Amber Gatherers

PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2007

Alasdair Roberts reinterprets traditional UK folk the same way Will Oldham reinterprets Americana; he takes a highly personal approach to a...