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Beirut: Gulag Orkestar
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: November 22, 2006
Beirut Gulag Orkestar Ba Da Bing! Give Zach Condon this: He doesn't pretend that he isn't a tourist. The 20-year-old Brooklynite, who put together his debut as Beirut while...
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Accidents Will Happen
Hip-Hop producer Madlib sneaks up on you one brief track at a time
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: October 25, 2006
When Madlib began making music in the late '90s, he did so from Oxnard, California. Oxnard seems like a suitably out-of-the-way place for an artist as left-field as...
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Yo La Tengo: I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: October 4, 2006
Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass Matador Strip away the three monsters that begin, end, and shore up the middle of Yo La Tengo's dumbly (excuse me,...
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Ramblin' Man
Anti-techie Bob Dylan makes a great chill-out album
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: September 13, 2006
Bob Dylan Modern Times Columbia Bob Dylan likes to front like an anti-techie, doing things such as avoiding the studio for five years at a time and telling Jonathan Lethem in...
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The Undead '60s
Of Montreal make good on paisley-tinted retro
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: August 9, 2006
Of Montreal The Sunlandic Twins Polyvinyl In the mid-to-late '90s, indie rockers were all abuzz over a group of emotive mushballs from Athens, Georgia. But unlike the...
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CD Review
Various artists: "A Tom Moulton Mix"
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: August 2, 2006
Various artists "A Tom Moulton Mix" Soul Jazz "Former model" isn't usually a promising résumé-builder in the music world, but Tom Moulton was different. An A&R...
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Various artists: Sounds of New York, U.S.A., Volume 1: The Big Break Rapper Party
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: June 28, 2006
Various artists Sounds of New York, U.S.A., Volume 1: The Big Break Rapper Party Queen Constance/Traffic How loose were things in the early days of recorded hip hop? So loose...
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Revenge of the Nerds
Brainy kids grow up but never stop flustering adults
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: June 21, 2006
The Fiery Furnaces Bitter Tea Fat Possum "Nobody loves a genius child," Langston Hughes once wrote. He was on to something, but he stopped short of saying what most people...
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CD Review
The Bangers: Jon Moskowitz Presents Purple Reign, John Shotti/Tapemasters Inc.: A Prince in Harlem
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: May 31, 2006
The Bangers Jon Moskowitz Presents Purple Reign www.myspace.com/purplereign2006 John Shotti/Tapemasters Inc. A Prince in Harlem www.myspace.com/jshotti Gimmicks make the...
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The Congos and Friends: Fisherman Style
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: May 3, 2006
The Congos and Friends Fisherman Style Blood and Fire It's a given among latter-day roots-reggae fans that 1977's Heart of the Congos, the Lee Perry-produced debut of Cedric...
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Welcome to the Machine
The Strokes refine the blueprint
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: January 25, 2006
THE STROKES First Impressions of Earth RCA The Strokes annoy people the way New York annoys people--without necessarily meaning to, but without being especially bothered...
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CD Review
Various Artists: Good for What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: November 23, 2005
Various Artists Good for What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937 Old Hat Everybody loves a jingle. Well, maybe not, but try getting the damn things out of your...
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CD Review
DangerDoom: The Mouse and the Mask
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: November 2, 2005
DangerDoom The Mouse and the Mask Epitaph When Virgin announced that Danger Mouse would be collaborating with Damon Albarn for Gorillaz' spring '05 album, Demon Days, it...
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CD Review
T. Raumschmiere: Blitzkrieg Pop, Crazy Frog: Crazy Frog Presents Crazy Hits
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: September 21, 2005
T. Raumschmiere Blitzkrieg Pop Novamute/Shitkatapult Crazy Frog Crazy Frog Presents Crazy Hits Next Plateau/Universal DJ-producer T. Raumschmiere may be lumped in...
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CD Review
Scharpling and Wurster: Hippy Justice: The Best of Scharpling and Wurster on the Best Show on WFMU Volume 3
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: August 31, 2005
Scharpling and Wurster Hippy Justice: The Best of Scharpling and Wurster on the Best Show on WFMU Volume 3 Stereolaffs A few months ago in this paper, I called...
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CD Review
Various Artists: Não Wave, The Sexual Life of the Savages: Underground Post-Punk from São Paulo, Brasil
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: August 17, 2005
various artists Não Wave Man import various artists The Sexual Life of the Savages: Underground Post-Punk from São Paulo, Brasil Soul Jazz import One thing...
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CD Review
Basement Jaxx: The Singles: Special Edition
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: May 25, 2005
Basement Jaxx The Singles: Special Edition XL import A warning: Some of Basement Jaxx's double-CD best-of-so-far (also available as a single disc, but who wants half...
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Forget Where Are They Now--Where Were They Then?
The early years of Scritti Politti's chameleonic career
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: March 16, 2005
Even if you're wary of absolute statements, here's one that's pretty hard to deny: Ladbroke Grove, England's Scritti Politti underwent the single weirdest evolution of any...
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Mama's Got a Brand New Bag--Wait, an Old Bag
Give it up for funk classicists Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: February 16, 2005
On the back cover of the Soul Providers' (Don't Look Back) Behind the Shack, a slab of Brooklyn-spawned retro-funk released by Desco Records in 1998, you'll find the following...
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CD Review
Various Artists: DFA Compilation #2
Michaelangelo Matos
Published: December 22, 2004
Various Artists DFA Compilation #2 DFA Most of the time, hearing electronica-identified artists claim that they "want to start using real instruments" is a red flag that...
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