Garbage | Bleed Like Me | Geffen

April 21, 2005 by

Having followed Garbage since it's inception in 1993, it pains me to submit what you are about to read. Disappointingly, Bleed Like Me finds the band still heavily anesthetized from the medication of ...
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The Kills | No Wow | Rough Trade/RCA

April 14, 2005 by

For the Kills, executing their minimalist sonic blitz with nothing more than a guitar, a drum machine and a lyrically unflinching fuck-you resolve is all in a day's work, and however miscalculated the...
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“Knuckle” Sandwich

February 17, 2005 by

"I was digging deep, deep, deep into my bag of songs [about love] - and I got some pretty fucked-up ones," Ani DiFranco coolly commented before swinging into an affirming rendition of "Swan Dive" at t...
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February 10, 2005 by

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…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead| Worlds Apart | Interscope

February 3, 2005 by

Of all the bands to produce a sub par, hesitant and muddled album ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead is the last one most would have expected.
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Ani DiFranco | Knuckle Down | Righteous Babe Records

January 27, 2005 by

It is always striking how deftly attuned Ani DiFranco is to her own psychology, as well as her ability to write unreservedly with objective accordance and poetic simplicity.
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End of the Century | Music Was Never the Same

January 6, 2005 by

"End of the Century" takes viewers back to the music scene in New York City (circa 1974) that never saw the Ramones coming, but proved to be precisely what rock enthusiasts were seeking when they debu...
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Le Tigre | This Island | Universal Records

November 4, 2004 by

This Island deserves three awards: one for the best/weirdest song title on an album ("Nanny Nanny Boo Boo"), another for best cover of the year (The Pointer Sisters' hit "I'm So Excited") and the last...
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Death by Sexy LIVE!!!

October 27, 2004 by

Before last Friday night Velvet Jones was a foreign place, known to me only as another typical club with a dodgy word-of-mouth reputation. Frankly, I did not believe I could be lured to its location o...
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Bjork | Medulla | Elektra/Atlantic

September 23, 2004 by

Bjork has never shied from eccentricism or extremism in her music, and Medulla, her seventh studio album, turning on the axis of vocalization, is no exception.
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May 13, 2004 by

To appreciate ambience is to favor essence over substance, longing over fulfillment, and quintessentially, less over more. Understandably then, the music of Icelandic electro-pop experimentalist quart...
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Patti Smith | Trampin’ | Columbia

May 6, 2004 by

Poet-cum-rocker Patti Smith has produced another brilliant album. The tracks on Trampin' cohere with a finesse that comes from 30 years of creating both art and music and maintaining their points of i...
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The Catheters | Howling… It Grows and Grows!!! | Sub Pop

April 29, 2004 by

The Catheters are an underrated, four-member Seattle, Wash., outfit currently touring in support of this, their second - and second horribly titled - album to be released on Sub Pop Records.
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