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[23 Dec 2008 | No Comment | ]
Cale Parks - Sparklace

Cale Parks delivers new sounds full of transient imagery with Sparklace. Gorgeous imagery flows with his cloud like instrumentation.

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[12 Dec 2008 | 18 Comments | ]
What was your first album?

“Do you want a record for your birthday?” “Yeah.” “Do you like Richard Marx?” “Yeah.” I didn’t know who he was from anyone else at that time but I loved records, didn’t matter who was on them.

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[10 Dec 2008 | No Comment | ]
Calexico - Carried to Dust

Man Made Lake is great minor ballad with such a lyrical impact that it can take you away to another place. It also has a guitar lead so fuzzed out that it can barely contain itself.

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[9 Dec 2008 | No Comment | ]
Everything Now - Prequels and Parallels

There can’t be much going on in Muncie, but for Everything Now they are proselytizing their own breed of music called “Space Gospel”. Prequels and Paralells is a free release made up of…

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[8 Dec 2008 | No Comment | ]
The Faded Tapes - Self Titled

It’s beautiful instrumental dreams are determined to win over even the most skeptical of music purveyor. It’s sparse instrumentation creates a wall of sound but not in the dramatic way.

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[6 Dec 2008 | No Comment | ]
Pit Er Pat - High Time

A lot music comes to mind and it’s easy to say that finding the source of reference for this live instrument centric/electro avant garde outfit will probably render fruitless. The fruit is in listening and wondering what leads someone to make such interesting music with noisy/electro tendencies.

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[6 Dec 2008 | No Comment | ]
The Butter Up Band - Giant Chemical

Home recording is a genre in itself. The studio takes the canvas and you paint and it applies. The home recording is a more like a canvas that you get to paint yourself.

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[5 Dec 2008 | No Comment | ]
The New Year - self titled

Patience in music is another way to ensure a life changing experience for the listener. “Folios” starts off the album with care you can feel. It gently crescendo’s with steadiness.

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[5 Dec 2008 | No Comment | ]
Political Folk Singer Odetta dies at 77

Odetta, the activist folk musician died on Tuesday at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. Her manager stated that she was diagnosed with heart disease. Odetta sang “I’m on My Way” at the famous march that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his historical…

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[4 Dec 2008 | No Comment | ]
Nick’s Myth - He Never Goes Anywhere

The titles of the songs on He Never Goes Anywhere seem like little inside jokes, secret messages, distant memories. Nicks Myth seems less like a band name and more of a story. It’s an instrumental story. A story without words. This being said I cannot review it like an album.