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“Rockology” with Brother JT

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Thu, Jul 1, 2010

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My friend Elizabeth introduces the following video thusly: “This guy basically solves the complicated perplex that is rock and roll music. I might be the only person who truly enjoys this stuff, for I am a scientist.” “This guy” happens to be lo-fi psych hooligan Brother JT, who I actually used to listen to quite a [...]

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Critical Condition: Field Music

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Tue, Feb 23, 2010

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Got stung by a pair of ailments last week: a low grade stomach thing and the return of my arch nemesis, lower back pain. When my back goes out of whack, it does so in a big way — near-crippling shocks of lumbar torment that leave me bedridden or hobbling around like a geriatric searching [...]

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00-09: End Hits — By Katie Ehlers

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Fri, Dec 4, 2009

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Katie is my favorite Twitter buddy, because she’s stunningly witty with a mere 140 characters and makes me laugh so hard the single-malt shoots out of my nose (yes, it stings). She also has fine taste in music, and regularly shows Brooklyn what-for. Here’s her brief tour of the records that mattered in the first [...]

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The Aughts — Whatever Norton Remembers

Posted by Norton on Fri, Dec 4, 2009

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So what was I listening to in the last decade….? Well, we started out with Fugazi’s latest/last (?) album, The Argument. You could look at Fugazi’s entire catalog from this album and see in crystalline vision the sum of it’s parts. It’s as though they explained everything. Even now, each time I hear this record I [...]

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Best Music of the Decade — By Zack Martin

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Thu, Dec 3, 2009

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Zack Martin is the multi-instrumentalist maestro behind Carrigan, a band some of you already know and love. Lately, Zack has turned his talents to film scoring, contributing an excellent soundtrack to the documentary The Way We Get By — a movie that’s scooped up tons of awards, has been aired on PBS and is now [...]

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