Articles by Alex Molotkow

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  Maher Shalal Hash Baz

  L'Autre Cap

  PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2007

  The infuriating thing about this album is that the band never let the songs happen. As soon as something interesting gets going (and there...

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  Ben & Vesper

  More Questions

  PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2007

  Ben and Vesper Stamper are the newest addition to Danielson’s Sound Familyre label, and their music is very much a family affair. They are...

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  Fucked Up

  Hidden World

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2006

  Fucked Up are one of the few hardcore bands that couldn’t be described as meatheads or dandies. Being an anomaly in this sense, it figures...

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  Xiu Xiu

  The Air Force

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

  This is his fifth full-length in four years, but mastermind Jamie Stewart is still churning the cauldron of pathos, sex and squalor that is...

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  Broadcast

  The Future Crayon

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

  It baffles me that Broadcast never caught on the way some of their colleagues did. Far lesser bands were somehow waved through the gates of...

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  Various

  Ecstatic Peace! Sweet Release #2

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  Ecstatic Peace! is an artist-oriented indie label based in Massachusetts, founded and curated by Thurston Moore. It’s unclear how much of a...

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  Flotilla

  Disaster Poetry

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  The appeal of a genuinely innocent-sounding female vocal is an eternally enduring one, and Flotilla singer/songwriter Veronica Charnley’s l...

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  Archie Bronson Outfit

  Derdangderdang

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  Archie Bronson Outfit play dark, garage-inspired indie rock with similarities to label-mates Sons and Daughters and Clinic. The band work a...