It took a few attempts before Midlake hit on a compelling direction for the follow-up to the band’s acclaimed 2006 album, “The Trials of Van Occupanther.” Four years later, the Denton, Texas, group returns with “The Courage of Others” (Bella Union). It was worth the wait. Actually, that’s something of an understatement. The band’s third [...]
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The first song on the sophomore album by the Wagner Logic is called “Waiting for Snow.” Given that the band is from Alaska, we’re guessing it’s never a very long wait. Snow jokes aside, the Alaska thing is significant: the song is like a photo negative of that psychedelic California sound from the ’60s, with [...]
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Before Flavor Flav hawked cell phone plans for Sprint and got roasted on Comedy Central, before Chuck D debated Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on CNN, before mainstream hip-hop was taken over by an endless stream of Auto-Tuned gangsta wannabes, there was Public Enemy. “Yo! Bum Rush the Show” introduced Public Enemy to the [...]
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