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Lost and found

Silicon gems from the analog ’80s
There’s scant digital evidence that one Tona Omaha exists or ever existed: he has one on-line mastering credit on a 1996 disc of guitar instrumentals.
By FRANKLIN BRUNO  |  April 01, 2008
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Coverings

Jeffrey Lewis’s Crass, and Dirty Projectors’ Black Flag
If the title teen of Juno can dismiss Sonic Youth as “just noise,” what would a representative of a generation for whom quiet is the new loud make of the even harsher sonic barrages of first-wave punk?
By FRANKLIN BRUNO  |  March 10, 2008
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Peace meal

His Name Is Alive are alive and well
Open-eared rockers often pay lip service to outré jazz figures, but this HNIA exploration is deeper and more selfless than the usual soundboy dabbling.
By FRANKLIN BRUNO  |  January 14, 2008
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Freestyle fellowships

The indie rap of Busdriver and Von Südenfed
Although crunk partisans probably won’t care for the comparison, LA rapper Busdriver might be thought of as the indie hip-hop analogue to Lil’ Wayne.
By FRANKLIN BRUNO  |  November 06, 2007
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The Writ stuff

Cass McCombs finds his indie-folk footing
Cass McCombs upends standard persona-building moves.
By FRANKLIN BRUNO  |  November 01, 2007
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Guest lists

 What 30 of the Phoenix 's music critics liked this year
What small, private lists like this remind us is that big, honking institutional lists are largely fictions, mirages of a consensus that no longer exists, if it ever really did in the first place.
By PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF  |  January 02, 2007
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Soft sells

The rise of indie rock’s cult of the singer-songwriter
Quiet is the new loud, pretty is the new rocking, and acoustic is the new electric. The Mountain Goats, "Woke Up New" (YouTube)
By FRANKLIN BRUNO  |  September 22, 2006
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Syd Barrett

1946-2006
Without meaning to, Barrett invented one of rock’s enduring archetypes: the visionary who burns brightly just long enough to become a bona fide star before plummeting into introversion and, in this case, a silence lasting more than 30 years.
By FRANKLIN BRUNO  |  July 21, 2006
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Future heads

Digging for post-punk gold
Matador head and contrarian tastemaker Gerard Cosloy recently wrote: “No, post-punk does not actually exist.”
By FRANKLIN BRUNO  |  June 13, 2006
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Kiwi komeback

The return of the Bats and more
Beginning with 1985’s Tuatara compilation, the New Zealand bands allied with Dunedin’s Flying Nun label became indie-pop manna in the US.
By FRANKLIN BRUNO  |  March 07, 2006
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Deep cuts

Rediscovering the edge in the Everly Brothers
On a list of artists whose legacy has been ill-served by the dozen or so hits by which they’re remembered, the Everly Brothers could lay fair claim to the top spot.
By FRANKLIN BRUNO  |  January 14, 2006

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