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2. These United States : What Lasts (Reviews/Album Reviews)
Author : Ted Chase Heightened hopes dash These United States' latest, a good record that isn't the great one you were kind of
expecting at this point.
3. The Wedding Present (Reviews/Concert Reviews)
Author : Ted Chase "If this was the last show ever at South Street Seaport, I'd
be happy to have this band be the last band who ever played here!"
4. The Scribblenauts : Low Light Turbulence EP (Reviews/Album Reviews)
Author : Mike Gutierrez The two MCs and one DJ that make up this Boston based
hip-hop trio don't reinvent the wheel on their recent EP.
7. The Arcade Fire : The Suburbs (Reviews/Album Reviews)
Author : Ted Chase The Arcade Fire return to The Suburbs, and find that you can't go home again.
9. Twilight: Eclipse Soundtrack (Reviews/Album Reviews)
Author : Ted Chase The latest Twilight soundtrack is still better than the movie, if more infected by the film.
10. The Gaslight Anthem : American Slang (Reviews/Album Reviews)
Author : Ted Chase Working man's punk gets even closer to The Boss thanks to fellow New Jersey locals.
There's something otherworldly and endearing about the swirling, heavily-affected female vocals on A Sunny Day in Glasgow's new album Scribble Mural Comic Journal. Backed by psychedelic, ambient art-rock, the vocals take on a supernatural tone, and calmly soak in.
Heightened hopes dash These United States' latest,
"If this was the last show ever at South Street Seaport, I'd
be happy to have this band be the last band who ever played here!"
The two MCs and one DJ that make up this Boston based
hip-hop trio don't reinvent the wheel on their recent EP.
On Burning Like the Midnight Sun, The Choir soars with
two Byrds.
The xx made the outdoors work when they played to a packed Summer Stage.
The Arcade Fire return to The Suburbs, and find that you can't go home again.
Explore the post colonial, post civil war Nigerian Afro Rock.
The latest Twilight soundtrack is still better than the movie, if more infected by the film.
Working man's punk gets even closer to The Boss thanks to fellow New Jersey locals.
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