Music

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   1. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti: House Arrest

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   2. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti 2: The Doldrums

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   3. Devendra Banhart: Oh Me Oh My

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   4. Devendra Banhart: Nino Rojo

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   5. Wavves: Wavvves

   Funny that such a simple record is becoming something of a divisive subject in the indie world. Then again, it might be so only in the comments sections of Idolator and Pitchfork and the like. The ...read more

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   6. Real Estate: s/t

   Don’t blink: Between now and when you finish this paragraph, Real Estate, a young North Jersey quartet, may have released another album, an EP and a couple of side-projects. But before they b...read more

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   7. Wavves: King of the Beach

   Here's to growing up. Not that Wavves doesn't look the same from the outside: cheapie day-glo artwork featuring a mysti-cat smoking a ciggy under a pot leaf, the indie-mundanity of the title of Nat...read more

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   8. Smith Westerns: s/t

   Smith Westerns' electric 2009 debut album for HoZac gets the pick-up treatment from Fat Possum (who did likewise for Wavves, another young lo-fi slacker-pop star-in-waiting), and it deserves your e...read more

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   9. Guided By Voices: Let’s Go Eat the Factory

   After a handful of hit-or-miss releases both on his own and with various outfits, songwriter Robert Pollard blows the dust off the classic line-up of his original band, Guided by Voices, and star...read more

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    10. Willis Earl Beal: Acousmatic Sorcery

    As was pointed out in a recent NY Times live review of Willis Earl Beal, it's amazing how your perception of an artist's music can change when it comes with a back story such as Beal's. Acousmatic ...read more

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