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The Fucking Champs

VI | Drag
These Bay Area boys have spent a decade-plus together wondering how many licks it’ll take to convince people that their instrumental heavy metal is no joke.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  May 29, 2007

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Extremely . . .

Björk rewards — and punishes
Björk has made a career out of exploring extremes.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  May 21, 2007

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Megadeth

United Abominations | Roadrunner
Mustaine’s politics can tend toward the simplistic, but his playing doesn’t.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  May 18, 2007

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The Sea and Cake

Everybody | Thrill Jockey
Few indie bands are as consistent as this one — which means you pretty much know what to expect from a new Sea and Cake disc.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  May 08, 2007

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Grant- Lee Phillips

Strangelet | Zoë
The former frontman of mid-’90s psych-folkies Grant Lee Buffalo sings about the fountain of youth running dry.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  April 30, 2007

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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Baby 81 | RCA
The songwriting isn’t BRMC’s most memorable, but Baby 81’s noise-roots fumes are pretty thick.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  April 23, 2007

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The Frames

The Cost | Anti-
The Frames play tense, elegiac folk-punk ballads that always sound as if they were reaching toward the epic.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  April 17, 2007

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Son Volt

The Search | Transmit Sound/Legacy
The usual rap against Son Volt is that the group adhere too tightly to roots-music orthodoxy — in other words, that they’re dead boring.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  April 10, 2007

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Low

Drums and Guns | Sub Pop
On 2005’s The Great Destroyer , Minnesota’s Low made a dramatic break from the slowcore sound the trio had helped pioneer in the mid ’90s.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  April 03, 2007

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Flake-overs

Introducing the new Macy Gray and Joss Stone
The craziest thing about the new Macy Gray record, Big , is Gray’s choice of coiffure.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  April 03, 2007

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Stars of Track and Field

Centuries Before Love and War | Wind-Up
Stars of Track and Field make a sound much bigger than Belle and Sebastian's tidy twee-pop shuffle.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  March 27, 2007

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Field Music

Tones of Town | Memphis Industries
Field Music frontman Peter Brewis loves a good pop song as much as the next chap.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  March 19, 2007

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Homegrown drone

Isis thrive out on the West Coast
Aaron Turner, frontman of the formerly Boston-based art-metal act Isis, is not easily swayed by the idea that nurture affects a developing entity more than nature. Isis, "Dulcinea" (mp3)
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  March 13, 2007

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The Autumn Defense

The Autumn Defense | Broadmoor
An amiable soft-rock duo comprising two members of Wilco, the Autumn Defense provide a refuge for alt-country traditionalists vexed by Wilco’s increasing artiness.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  March 12, 2007

The Cinematics

A Strange Education | TVT
Despite the title of their debut album, it’s unlikely that there was anything particularly strange about the Cinematics’ education.  
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  October 27, 2008

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Stockholm calling

Peter Bjorn and John, El Perro del Mar, and Lo-Fi Fink lead the new Swedish invasion
In “Young Folks,” the hipster hit by the Stockholm-based indie-pop trio Peter Bjorn and John, Peter Morén boasts that “we don’t care about the young folks.”
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  March 03, 2007

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The Broken West

I Can't Go On, I'll Go On | Merge
Flournoy doesn’t seem concerned with demonstrating his originality.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  February 26, 2007

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Elvis Perkins

Ash Wednesday | XL
“I heard a sound when I was a child,” Elvis Perkins sings in “It’s Only Me,” a typically introspective folk-pop number from this debut album.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  February 20, 2007

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The Apples in Stereo

New Magnetic Wonder | Simian/Yep Roc
Interviewing Robert Schneider is one of the toughest gigs in music journalism, and not because the guy’s anything but a perfect gentleman.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  February 13, 2007

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Lifetime

Lifetime | Decaydance/Fueled by Ramen
After eight years of inactivity, this scrappy New Jersey band reunited in 2005, to the delight of the countless emo kids who’ve singled out Lifetime as a primary influence.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  February 06, 2007
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