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January 26, 2012
Q&A: Cloud Nothings' Dylan Baldi On "Blog Rock," Cleveland, And Having "Lo-Fi" On His Tombstone
Clevelander Dylan Baldi is making like the indie rock LeBron James. Except instead of pinpoint passing ability, Baldi's hands are able to noodle a fine lo-fi pop tune out of a four-track or ProTools like an all-star from an early age. His early cassette releases garnered him what's referred t ... More >>
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October 21, 2011
Q&A: Jim Carroll Of Unicycle Loves You On The Nature Of Failure, The Fifth Element, And Paying Tribute To Sonic Youth
Anthony DixonChicago's Unicycle Loves You is unabashedly a noise-pop band, but not in the (mo-fi) sense that Sisters, Japanther, Railcars, or early No Age jams are noise-pop. Rather, singer/guitarist Jim Carroll, singer/bassist Nicole Vitale, and drummer J.T. Baker author lo-fi indie-pop bang ... More >>
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June 20, 2011
Live: Guided By Voices Reconfigure Time And Space
Guided By Voices w/Wavves, Surfer Blood McCarren Park Saturday, June 18, 2011 Better than: Just hearing the show without seeing it, which is what everyone who lives on my street got to do anyway. It's long been gospel that you can't tell Robert Pollard anything. Attempts by well-meaning biz type ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 18, 2011
Times New Viking+the Babies
Guided By Voices w/Wavves, Surfer Blood McCarren Park Saturday, June 18, 2011 Better than: Just hearing the show without seeing it, which is what everyone who lives on my street got to do anyway. It's long been gospel that you can't tell Robert Pollard anything. Attempts by well-meaning biz type ... More >>
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April 15, 2011
Record Store Day: How Shops, Labels, Fans, And Those Annoying Resellers Benefit
If you can snag this, congratulations, you've won. Saturday marks the fifth annual Record Store Day, the celebration of all things indie, vinyl, and limited edition-slash-noble ploy to get customers through the doors of the music stores still standing in the spring of 2011. It's basically the ... More >>
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April 11, 2011
Live: Cheetah Chrome, Bob Pfeifer, Mike Hudson, And Eric Davidson Look Back At Cleveland's Fiery Punk Scene
Stephen SlaybaughBob Pfeifer. Cleveland Confidential Book Tour, moderated by Luc Sante and featuring Cheetah Chrome, Mike Hudson, and Bob Pfeifer plus Eric Davidson powerHouse Arena Saturday, April 9 Better Than: Watching the East River burn while sitting in a swank DUMBO loft. There must ... More >>
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March 23, 2011
Q&A: Kurt Vile on His Favorite Bob Seger Song and the Neil Young Solo That Changed His Life
Kurt Vile is a virtuoso of self-pity. As a songwriter, he paints more shades in this particular spectrum--industrial silver, steel-blue, watery gray--than just about anyone. His newest record, Smoke Ring For My Halo, is a small masterpiece of this small subset of emotion, nailing the center o ... More >>
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December 21, 2010
Ariel Pink, Titus Andronicus, the Butthole Surfers, Drive-By Truckers, and More Headline Your New York City New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve is next Friday, which means you probably already missed out on Patti Smith tickets. Wait much longer and there won't be much left to choose from. So, in the interests of being servicey, and in honor of the news that 2010's Most Important Singles Artist, Ariel Pink, will be in a ... More >>
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October 7, 2010
The 6 Best Things You Can Bid On From WFMU's Benefit Auction
Inside the WFMU archives.It's fundraising time again for awesome local freeform radio station WFMU, and rather than do another fall marathon, music festival, record fair, or art benefit, the station has organized an online auction, with all proceeds going to support the beloved and increasing ... More >>
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October 1, 2010
Live Streams From Matador 21 Start Tonight With Pavement, Sonic Youth, And Fucked Up
It's understandable, your depression/jealousy/irritation at not being physically present in Las Vegas this weekend for Matador Records' bizarrely elaborate Matador at 21 spectacle, featuring just about every major label act you could possibly desire unless you're, like, a die-hard Thinking Fe ... More >>
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September 7, 2010
A Brief History of So-Called "Dirty Words" in Indie-Rock
Are these kids at a Phish show or an Animal Collective show? You'll never know. Photo by Max Herman. Over the weekend, the Washington Post suggested that a shift was underway in the indie-rock community. As the headline went: "For indie rockers, 'jam band' increasingly no longer a shameful te ... More >>
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July 6, 2010
Download Knight School's Gleefully No-Fi Summer Jam "I'm Your Band"
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. "I mean good sounding stuff sounds great, but personally, I love that quintessential indie sound," says Kevin Alvir of Brooklyn no-fi joy-punk duo Knight School. With similarly cartoonish ecstasy-cr ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 17, 2009
Birds of Avalon+the Library is on Fire
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. "I mean good sounding stuff sounds great, but personally, I love that quintessential indie sound," says Kevin Alvir of Brooklyn no-fi joy-punk duo Knight School. With similarly cartoonish ecstasy-cr ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 22, 2009
Tommy Keene
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. "I mean good sounding stuff sounds great, but personally, I love that quintessential indie sound," says Kevin Alvir of Brooklyn no-fi joy-punk duo Knight School. With similarly cartoonish ecstasy-cr ... More >>
Music
October 8, 2008
More Geek-Snot Anthems From Jay Reatard
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. "I mean good sounding stuff sounds great, but personally, I love that quintessential indie sound," says Kevin Alvir of Brooklyn no-fi joy-punk duo Knight School. With similarly cartoonish ecstasy-cr ... More >>
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March 18, 2008
Live: Cut Copy Carries New Order's Torch
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. "I mean good sounding stuff sounds great, but personally, I love that quintessential indie sound," says Kevin Alvir of Brooklyn no-fi joy-punk duo Knight School. With similarly cartoonish ecstasy-cr ... More >>
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February 19, 2008
Download: TVT Records, 1985-2008
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. "I mean good sounding stuff sounds great, but personally, I love that quintessential indie sound," says Kevin Alvir of Brooklyn no-fi joy-punk duo Knight School. With similarly cartoonish ecstasy-cr ... More >>
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October 31, 2007
Provincializm #14: Bottomless Pit
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. "I mean good sounding stuff sounds great, but personally, I love that quintessential indie sound," says Kevin Alvir of Brooklyn no-fi joy-punk duo Knight School. With similarly cartoonish ecstasy-cr ... More >>
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September 7, 2007
Provincializm: Pearlene, Dirty South As Gravitron
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. "I mean good sounding stuff sounds great, but personally, I love that quintessential indie sound," says Kevin Alvir of Brooklyn no-fi joy-punk duo Knight School. With similarly cartoonish ecstasy-cr ... More >>
Music
April 17, 2007
Get Springy!
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. "I mean good sounding stuff sounds great, but personally, I love that quintessential indie sound," says Kevin Alvir of Brooklyn no-fi joy-punk duo Knight School. With similarly cartoonish ecstasy-cr ... More >>
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March 2, 2006
Live: NOFX Get Drunk, Cuss at People
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. "I mean good sounding stuff sounds great, but personally, I love that quintessential indie sound," says Kevin Alvir of Brooklyn no-fi joy-punk duo Knight School. With similarly cartoonish ecstasy-cr ... More >>
Music
February 21, 2006
Work Shy
Uncle Bob goes solo, still split difference between profligate and prolific
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October 18, 2005
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Uncle Bob goes solo, still split difference between profligate and prolific
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April 26, 2005
One Beaut of a Tune, All Alone, Occupying the Cleanup Spot
Uncle Bob goes solo, still split difference between profligate and prolific
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May 29, 2001
Rock: One-Offs
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May 8, 2001
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August 31, 1999
Lo-Fi Dead in O-hi-o?
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August 24, 1999
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