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• Ed Pearl: Back to the Ash Grove

  by Denise Sullivan•March 4, 2009•Comments (7)

  "What the Ash Grove did," says Ed Pearl, "was change the face of popular music." So why would anyone want to burn it down three times? (read more)

• Murder Mystery: Burnished Pop Tunes Meet Delirious Arrangements

  by j. poet•January 21, 2009•Comments (0)

  Murder Mystery’s songs are bright, twinkling pop, usually clocking in at two minutes, laden with vocal and instrumental hooks and Coleman’s well constructed guitar solos. His brief excursions blend pop, blues, country, and rock in the manner of Chuck Berry, without ever resorting to the Berry licks that are the stock-in-trade of less creative players. Murder Mystery mashes everything from doo-wop to new wave (read more)

• John McGrew: The Music Industry Defector

  by Ben Westhoff•November 19, 2008•Comments (2)

  I went to a Lower East Side venue a few months ago to see my friend’s band play, but a singer named John McGrew that came on later upstaged them and everyone else on the bill that night. Brooklyn singer-songwriter McGrew’s fearless vocals and showmanship won me over immediately, as did his backing band the SitBacks’ spontaneous brand of indie-folk and pop-gospel. (read more)

• Various Artists

  by Steve Matteo•July 9, 2008•Comments (1)

  "a means of gaining insight into the music that has shaped Dylan’s musical vocabulary" (read more)

• The Summer of One Million Festivals

  by Jason Thomas•April 30, 2008•Comments (3)

  What is easy to miss is the history of how indie rock came to us; it was not born from particularly stylish or even fashionable people. It may be the domain of hipsters in recent years, but it rose from the most awkward and rebellious of sources. Indie rock gets its roots from the art rock (read more)

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