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More great acoustic-guitar music from Tompkins Square, which is quickly establishing itself as the Takoma label of our time. Berkeley Guitar features new recordings by three of the Bay Area’s...read more
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Modal guitarist Walker was the musical director for noted Harvard hippie Timothy Leary’s psychedelic “Celebrations” and made a pair of acoustic guitar raga LPs for Vanguard Record...read more
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Cynics may wonder how many albums we need by an instrumental indie-rock band. If the band is Explosions in the Sky, the answer is “all of them and more,” since they just keep getting be...read more
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There are so many levels on which to appreciate the music of James Blackshaw. For guitarists, there’s the sheer how-does-he-do-it of his dazzling technique, used to produce three simultaneous...read more
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This two-disc set (for the price of one) reissues rare material: two splits, a subscription, a previously unreleased track, and a limited edition, ranging from 1998 to 2003. This is Ben Chasny at h...read more
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Sonic Youth’s return to the indie ranks resulted in no major changes from their previous song album, 2006’s Rather Ripped. The Eternal still features lots of moody mid-tempo grooves; the te...read more
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After garnering a reputation for combining the best elements of John Fahey and Sandy Bull in his beautiful, intricate 12-string-guitar playing, English virtuoso James Blackshaw started branching ou...read more
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Sun City Girls, yada yada, whatever. I enjoy every one of Richard Bishop’s solo albums a lot more than anything he did with SCG. Though still quite eclectic, his discs are more focused and cohere...read more
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Texas always has kicked out this country’s best psychedelic stuff. The duo Headdress (who might live here in NYC now, hard to say with dudes like this) adds a hazy, shimmering new chapter to ...read more
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This is our last earthly transmission from Jack Rose, a master of the guitar who’d been granted access to the instrument’s ancient book of secrets, only to be taken from us — all ...read more
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Part of the title outs Abyss in B Minor as Serena-Maneesh’s second album, which is only strange if you take into account that the Oslo, Norway, band formed all the way back in 1999. That̵...read more
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The Kranky label’s pedigree is such that, when appropriate, this fact will always have to be pointed out first: Disappears is a rock band, not the latest laptop-gear-sine-wave-manipulating dr...read more
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Ty Segall is shaping up to be one of those fractured-genius sorta rockers, in the style of his buddy Johnny Dwyer (of the Oh Sees). After dropping a debut slice of garage-brilliance, Lemons, last y...read more
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You'd be hard-pressed to find a more simple charmer of a guitar-pop record out there than the full-length debut by Beach Fossils, aka nouveau Brooklynite Dustin Payseur. In fact, a review of this s...read more
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Noveller is the nom de guitar of Brooklynite Sarah Lipstate, whose last album, 2009's Red Rainbows, was a jarring, technicolor rampage through sculpted noise and crashing dynamics. For Desert Fires...read more
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This trio meeting — recorded live at the Big Ears Festival in 2009 in Tennessee (guess which part) — proves that Christian Fennesz and his two cohorts, guitarist David Daniell (whose resumé in...read more
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