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• The Smiths: Meat Is Murder

  by Joe Pernice•July 23, 2008•Comments (0)

  In the gutter, sugared with sand put down during the winter’s last snow, I saw written in red felt ink on masking tape stuck to a smoky-clear cassette:  “Smiths: Meat.” (read more)

• On the Horizon: The Future of the Record Label

  by Jason Thomas•July 23, 2008•Comments (0)

  There’ll be the space left open for a new kind of label to fill in the emerging gaps. I envision lots of small labels devoted to building up young local acts and helping to build community (read more)

• Pop Rock Whores: The Long Winters vs. Counting Crows

  by Ben Westhoff•July 23, 2008•Comments (0)

  The first time I listened to the Long Winters I thought of Counting Crows. Maybe that’s because Counting Crows’ song “A Long December” was floating around in my head, or maybe because the Long Winters’ singer John Roderick’s voice shares an accentless, quickly excitable quality with Adam Duritz’s. Or perhaps it was because both bands are absolute whores for instantly catchy anthems (read more)

• Rolling Stone Oldham: Talented, Insulting, Outrageous

  by Keith Altham•July 23, 2008•Comments (0)

  Andrew Oldham is egotistical, talented, insulting, outrageous, and likeable almost in spite of himself. He manages the world's number two group, owns his own record company, produces discs, writes songs, sleeve notes, and poetry, and publishes the Beach Boys' music in Britain. In the hip vocabulary of pop music they say he is "happening." Perhaps Mama Cass stressed (read more)

• Paul Weller

  by David MacFadden-Elliott•July 23, 2008•Comments (0)

  "the climax caps a record that turns out having as much to do with nature as sleep" (read more)

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