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Music

Dust in the wind

by Brianna Riplinger
Published May 1, 2003

The First Prize Killers' new album has a brilliant, friends-playing-for-fun quality that makes it instantly likable. "The Powdery Parade," the band's third release and first full-length album, was put...

Sturm und drang

Published April 24, 2003

ABy June Pineda s her name suggests, there is nothing predictable about singer-songwriter Benna, who offers up 14 romantic pop songs on her third album, "What's Meant to Be." Benna's tunes might seem typical...

Technologies of sound

by Lee Billings
Published April 24, 2003

For more than a decade, Autechre (pronounced 'aww-tek-er') has charted the frontiers of electronic music, traversing the bleeding edges of technology and art. The group is a collaboration between Britons...

A flinty kind of woman

by Brianna Riplinger
Published April 24, 2003
Dar Williams retains her credibility despite pop forays

Astral projection: Letting it be

by Nathan Hall
Published April 24, 2003

One fascinating aspect of electronic-based music is that, due to its slavish reliance on computer software, mini-epiphanies of discovery can erupt multiple times over the same development or genre twist...

Nothing new under the sun

by Nathan Hall
Published April 17, 2003

If you're going to name your new band after an immense star that reaches, on average, highs in the upper 15 million degrees, it's a must that said band has got a lot of explaining to do right off the bat....

It’s hot as Sadies in here

by Brianna Riplinger
Published April 17, 2003
This Toronto group defies most labels

Smoke ’em if you got ’em

by Nathan Hall
Published April 17, 2003
Leroy Smokes takes white hip-hop in a predictable direction

Naughty kitty!

Published April 10, 2003
Boomkat will make you regret pop music

Calgon, take me away!

by Jennifer Schneider
Published April 10, 2003

Susan Enan's folk-infused pop possesses an ethereal quality inviting anyone trying to describe it to pull out some classic music clichés: haunting, evocative, like a warm embrace. I should point...

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