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Feb 01, 2010
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Atlanta-born Brooklyn transplant Jon
Philpot’s four piece Bear in Heaven is part
of a gush of avant-garde Brooklyn groups
proffering mesmerizing soundscapes —
peers like Grizzly Bear, the Antlers, and
Japanther come to mind.
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Feb 01, 2010
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On Choose Your Road, Jesse Hiatt
may know exactly how to work the angle of
funky white boy crooning as the girls are
swooning, but it’s when his fingers hit the
keys that we hear his true voice: formidable
and funky chops on
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Feb 01, 2010
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Andrew Leary (left) and Oliver Keech. Sound: Melodic, electronic, indie
techno-pop.
Webpage: relationmusic.co.ukFavorite Gear: Apple Mac running Logic
Pro, Arturia soft synths, Roland Juno-106,
Gibson Les Paul guitar,
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Feb 01, 2010
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Home-grown Americana is alive and well, thanks in no small
part to the recent success of the Felice Brothers, who hail from
New York’s Catskill mountains. Founding brother and keyboardist
James Felice recalls a time when
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Jan 31, 2010
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Mika’s latest offering, The Boy Who
Knew Too Much, is a sonic circus of sorts.
It’s classic piano riffs bathed in church
choir cadences, harmonized vocals over
stop-time drum marches, and hip-hop
beats colliding with pop
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Jan 31, 2010
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“I wish I had a CS-80,” Skylar Thomas tells me after I inquire about the
imposing keyboard shown above, a Yamaha CS-60. We discovered Skylar
after a Facebook posting demonstrating her command of Pro Tools 8.
With a slew of
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Jan 31, 2010
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Since last summer, Clap Your Hands
Say Yeah frontman Alec Ounsworth has
tracked two records — Mo Beauty and Flashy
Python’s Skin and Bones — in two very different
studio settings. He told us about his
return to the keys, his
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Jan 01, 2010
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For those in the know, Andrew
McMahon has been an underground sensation,
a wunderkind who spent his formative
years fronting the piano-punk pop of
Something Corporate, only to shift gears
a few years back into his newest
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Jan 01, 2010
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In the world of nu-skool breaks, Adam
Freeland is something of a legend. From
his 1996 mix CD Coastal Breaks to his
initial productions with Kevin Beber as
Tsunami One, Freeland quickly established
himself as a force to be
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Jan 01, 2010
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From its very first moments — a
machine-gun volley of perfectly-timed
notes, frenetically joyous and angular — you
can tell that Hiromi’s Place To Be is anything
but another sleepy, contemplative
solo piano album. In fact,
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Jan 01, 2010
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The music: It’s fairly piano driven with
heavy orchestral elements — a mix of chamber
pop and cinema.
Website: brookewaggoner.com
Latest album: Go Easy Little Doves.
Sounds like: Someone once told me that if
Elton John
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Dec 01, 2009
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Fledgling indie rockers thenewno2
would be cool regardless of their blessed
origins and rock royalty connections.
Though founding member Dhani Harrison’s
father George was a Beatle, the music of
thenewno2 is refreshingly
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Dec 01, 2009
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Given its meticulous horn and vocal arrangements and top-grade production values, Emilio Palame’s R&B smooth jazz album Be Who
You Are is clearly a labor of love — and one that vibrates with positive energy and outstanding
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Dec 01, 2009
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The music: The Black Hollies are a rock ’n’
roll band comprised of equal parts pop,
psychedelia, freak-beat, garage, and soul.
Our music is best experienced live.
Keys on the new album Softly
Towards The Light: A Hammond B-3
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Dec 01, 2009
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Webpage: muzikjunki.com
Sound: Dirty, melodic, uplifting house with
a progressive touch.
Favorite gear: Without a doubt, my
Avalon VT-747 [stereo tube
compressor EQ]. Also I like to play with
my Access Virus TI and Nord
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