Music Review
I’m a far cry from the first person to say that “super” groups are usually anything but. A collaboration of key players from two or more wildly popular bands sounds great on paper, but in practice usually ends with large egos, broken noses and poor song writing.
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Last Saturday night, local psychedelic funk band Karrgo Bossajova took the stage at the Caldera Tap House in downtown Ashland. The band members, all originally of Lake Oswego, Ore., have been playing together locally for a year and a half. Blake Norris and Joe Jacobson, both 20, are in their third year at Southern Oregon University, where they are music majors.
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Atlas Sound is the solo project of Bradford James Cox, lead singer of Deerhunter, a self described “ambient punk” band. Under the monicker Atlas Sound, he explores a different “palette of sounds” than he gets to use in his five-piece rock band, and it shows. Most of the music is made from computer or acoustic guitar loops and very simple drums, making it pretty prevalent after a couple songs that this material would be very difficult to perform live with only one person.
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CD Review
“Earthly Delights” is one of those poor albums where the musical formula of the material works brilliantly for maybe three tracks on the album, but fails to keep interest for the rest of the songs. There are maybe two tracks of the nine on this album that are very good; the rest are very similar to those tracks, but lack anything very special or interesting about them to make them stick out.
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Devendra Banhart has become a pretty well known figure within the indie freak folk scene, which exists just below the mainstream indie radar. With his recent relationship to Natalie Portman and his cult audience of devoted fans, he has surfaced into the lime light recently as one of the more well known figures in the “freak-folk” culture (other prominent artists include Vashti Bunyan, Sufjan Stevens, and Cocorosie).
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Arlo Brooks
Tyondai Braxton is well known in more ways than one among the underground music culture. First and foremost he is the "front man" (if they could ever have one) of the math rock band Battles, playing guitar, keyboards, computers and vocalizing. He is the son of Anthony Braxton, renowned avant-garde jazz musician, composer and philosopher.
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CD Review
Modest Mouse’s latest EP “No One’s First and You’re Next,” is a compilation of unused tracks from their last two albums, “Good News For People Who Love Bad News” and “We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.
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CD Review
The fourth studio album by The Used, titled Artwork, seems to be a manifestation of regurgitated work, either for the sake of money or to try to stretch out an up-and-down music career to it’s brink. The enthusiasm and passion seems gone from the members; the album goes through the motions with very little variation.
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