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He, himself, and Hi

Eric Elbogen's Say Hi comes into its own
“I was always the kid who hated to do group projects at school because I always thought I could work better on my own.”
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  October 19, 2009
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Fly by night?

Fruit Bats aren't a Shins side project
For a decade, Eric Johnson's primary songwriting vehicle has been Fruit Bats, but the Portland-via-Chicago singer and multi-instrumentalist has always dipped in and out of other projects — Califone, Vetiver, Ugly Casanova among them.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  September 08, 2009
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Bit players

Anamanaguchi are a shock to the systems
What do you get when you cross NYU music-technology majors just out of their teens, vintage Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy gear, traditional rock-and-roll instruments, a mysterious, robot-building fellow named José with half a middle finger on one hand, and a shadowy underground network of info-spreading Swedes? No.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  June 05, 2009
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Shiny happy people

Matt & Kim let the good times roll
In the event of thermonuclear war, only two things will survive: cockroaches, and the smiles on the faces of Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  March 16, 2009
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The electric company

The Builders and the Butchers plug in, take off
We all know how in 1965, at the Newport Folk Festival, the previously all-acoustic Bob Dylan took the stage with an electric guitar, plugged in, enraged fans, and destroyed the folk-music scene forever.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  February 02, 2009
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Andrew Bird's whistled, wily works

Setting the mood
"Steamy, fecund, decaying, kind of mossy, woodsy . . . cloudlike, thick, saturated."
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  January 28, 2009
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Doing it live

Crystal Stilts hit the road
Crystal Stilts hit the road
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  December 05, 2008

Interview: Girl Talk

David Thorpe chats up Gregg Gillis
David Thorpe chats up Gregg Gillis
By DAVID THORPE  |  November 14, 2008
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Wandering star

Jolie Holland’s got demons on her trail
Cleaning the kitchen of her Brooklyn apartment a few weeks ago — shortly before hitting the road in support of her fourth full-length, The Living and the Dead (Anti-) — singer-songwriter Jolie Holland was struck by an idea for her fifth album.  
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  October 28, 2008
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A history of violins

The bigger, better sound of Dungen
To paraphrase (very loosely) Ben Franklin, wherever you go in this world of ours — and that includes Sweden, native land of Dungen mastermind Gustav Ejstes — nothing is certain but death, taxes, and being picked on mercilessly if you’re a kid who plays the violin.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  October 23, 2008
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Lady killers

Vivian Girls find fans, lose shoes
“Maybe over there? Try over there . . . ” The muffled voice in the background sounds defeated.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  October 08, 2008
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A place of pure love

Jesse Sykes and her Sweet Hereafter
Far from being morose, Sykes is witty, sharp, and charmingly self-depreciating after each of her lengthy musings on life, energy, and the universe.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  September 16, 2008
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Nervous energy

The unlikely rise of Does It Offend You, Yeah?
“If I actually stopped to think about what’s going on, I’d probably shit myself,” says James Rushent, singer/bassist for UK electro-rock quartet Does It Offend You, Yeah?
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  August 26, 2008

Can you feel my love, Buzz?

A chat with Mackie Osborne
A chat with Mackie Osborne
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  August 11, 2008
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Unstoppable force

The sludgy juggernaut of the Melvins
“Basically it’s like, if you get what we’re doing, then no explanation is necessary, and if you don’t, then no explanation is possible.”
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  August 08, 2008
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Old souls

The Bouncing Souls stay relevant
“The very first Bouncing Souls show was a battle of the bands in high school. We took third place out of four bands. We sucked, though — we were terrible. Horrible ."
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  July 15, 2008
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Two for the road

The Watson Twins escape the shadows
Most music fans discovered the Watson Twins — 31-year-old identical sisters Leigh and Chandra — via their backing vocal appearance on Rabbit Fur Coat , the 2006 solo debut from Jenny Lewis.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  July 07, 2008
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Polvo give it another go

After a decade-long hiatus, the progenitors of math rock find their chemistry still exists
The North Carolina quartet’s noisy sound was music to a select group of ears.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  June 17, 2008
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Twin reverb

Centro-matic and South San Gabriel
For the better part of his prolific songwriting career, Texas singer/guitarist Will Johnson, when not releasing albums under his own name, has donned distinctive hats for his two bands.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  June 09, 2008
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Drear as folk

The bleak interiors of Damien Jurado and Jeremy Enigk
It’s that feeling of overwhelming sorrow tempered by the faintest sliver of hope that’s evoked by the music of two veteran Pacific Northwest songwriters and long-time friends who share a bill at Great Scott this Saturday night.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  May 28, 2008
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Soul purpose

The BellRays get us all kinds of worked up
The BellRays — whose married core is singer Lisa Kekaula and guitarist/bassist Bob Vennum — have been making music since 1990.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  May 19, 2008
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Eastern promises

Balkan trends with DeVotchKa and Firewater
Balkan trends with DeVotchKa and Firewater
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  May 12, 2008
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King of the hill

Mark Linkous revives his Sparklehorse
“I didn’t think anyone would come to these shows. I figured the venues would be half-empty, and it hasn’t been that way at all,” says Sparklehorse mastermind Mark Linkous.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  February 20, 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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Making nice

Deftones go on a healing tour
‘If this breaks up, it’s not like I can go sell a Basquiat like Lars Ulrich.’
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  December 01, 2006
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Work ethics

Jason Molina and Magnolia Electric Co.
You can file Jason Molina with the über-prolific. Magnolia Electric Co., "Lonesome Valley" (mp3)
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  September 15, 2006
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Harmonic convergences

The Futureheads get past the post-punk blues
Beyond their artful, crackling, dueling-guitar geometrics and layers of cunning rhythms, the Futureheads' most distinguishing and potent weapon is their four-part vocals.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  June 28, 2006
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Harmonic convergence

The Futureheads get past the post-punk blues
“I don’t know what to do with myself,” Ross Millard mutters, shrugging at his mates as he sets his guitar down at the rear of the small stage at the back of Seattle’s East Street Records and ambles toward his mic stand.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  June 28, 2006
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Beast masters

Mogwai celebrate 10 years of loudness
“I think that what we do very naturally as a band is quite predictable,” says Mogwai guitarist and de facto leader Stuart Braithwaite.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  May 10, 2006
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Vocal musings

Beth Orton finds her comfort zone
“My voice is a bit like a piano with a dodgy key on it or something,” Beth Orton chuckles quietly over the phone as her tour bus rumbles toward the Canadian border.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG  |  April 04, 2006

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