Gina Pensiero, For the Daily Sound-Dust, Stereolab Elektra British band Stereolab"s new album, Sound-Dust, is pure bliss for any listener who is a sucker for cover-art, European stuff and that relentless indie mantra ...

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Gina Pensiero, Daily Arts Writer "Nothing! We're doing nothing!," are the first lyrics and the extremely repetitive chorus on the first song of Aldhils Arboretum, the sixth album by ultra-happy indeed-poppers Of Montreal. The mantra, it seems ...

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MCA Gina Pensiero, Daily Arts Writer Llama is a band maladroit at anything other than taking up time spinning in a CD player. They're not very good, although they're not exactly ...

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Gina Pensiero, Daily Arts Writer Dressy Bessy Sound Go Round Kindercore Records This band is all handclaps, beatlesque guitar tones and shit-eating grins. Oh, they're also sugary retro ultra-pop with a chick singing lead ...

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Gina Pensiero Josh Rouse Under Cold Blue Stars Slow River Records "It"s a gray world," sings Josh Rouse in the song "Summer Kitchen Ballad" off his new album Under Cold Blue Stars. You can tell he means it so much ...

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Gina Pensiero, Daily Arts Writer "It's a gray world," sings Josh Rouse in the song "Summer Kitchen Ballad" off his new album Under Cold Blue Stars. You can tell he means it so much that it makes you want to cry. Rouse is the answer ...

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Gina Pensiero, Daily Arts Writer Seth Bernard stole the show with songs about chicken-killing children and Mother Jones. He wasn"t even trying, it was all natural charisma. And Bernard had plenty. He seemed to an opener for two ...

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Gina Pensiero, Daily Arts Writer Cornelius Point Matador Records There"s something about Japanese pop. It"s either brilliant or really completely annoying. This is certainly true of innovative Japanese artist ...

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Gina Pensiero, Daily Arts Writer Crazy Wisdom Tea Room will host two local singer-songwriters, Annie Dubrinsky and Jens Erik Gould, of the local band Curious Few, tonight at 8:30pm. Admission to the show is free. The Tea Room is known ...

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Gina Pensiero, Daily Arts Writer On Fire, Black 47 Gadfly Ska mixed with bagpipes isn"t dead! Uh yeah. And it"s not just the annoying Dropkick Murphys either. New York-based Black 47 do an excellent job at it, infusing ska ...

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