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Author: Dan Weiss

Indie Rock 

President Yo La Tengo

March 24, 2023March 24, 2023 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 2023, Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan, James McNew, Matador Records, This Stupid World, Yo La Tengo

What does it mean when rock’s greatest working band barely rises above a whisper?

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Indie Rock Power Pop Rock 

The Beths Rock Philadelphia

March 7, 2023March 7, 2023 Dan Weiss 0 Comments Alvvays, Carpark Records, Elizabeth Stokes, Expert in a Dying Field, Paramore, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, SEBADOH, The Beths, Union Transfer

Inside the New Zealand band’s electrifying show at Union Transfer

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New Wave Pop Rock 

Dancing Wiv Herself: An Interview With Billy Nomates

February 13, 2023February 13, 2023 Dan Weiss 0 Comments Billy Nomates, Bristol, Cacti, England, Florence Welch, Geoff Barrow, Iggy Pop, Invada Records

Catching up with one of Iggy Pop’s new faves

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Festivals Indie Rock Post-Punk Punk 

Frantic City Is Me and Probably You

October 7, 2022 Dan Weiss 0 Comments Atlantic City, Car Seat Headrest, Control Top, Frantic City, Murder City Devils, New Jersey, Rocket From the Crypt, Samiam, Shannon and the Clams, Snail Mail, Sonic Youth, Superchunk, The Bouncing Souls, The Raveonettes, Titus Andronicus, Yo La Tengo

Superchunk, Rocket From The Crypt, The Bouncing Souls, Yo La Tengo and more rock Atlantic City

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Country and/or Western Pop Power Pop 

Kalie Shorr on Making the Country Record of 2021 (Except It’s Not Country)

October 1, 2021October 1, 2021 Dan Weiss 0 Comments Amy, Butch Walker, Carly Rae Jepsen, Dua Lipa, I Got Here By Accident, Kacey Musgraves, Kalie Shorr, Love Child, Margo Price, SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE, Taylor Swift

Country’s brightest new voice discusses her first rock record, her love of Liz Phair, and why country singers deal with so much drama

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Electronics Experimental jazz Remembrance 

You Gotta Orient Myself: One of Jon Hassell’s Last Interviews

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 Dan Weiss 0 Comments Bluescreen, Brian Eno, Fourth World, Jazz, Jon Hassell, RIP

The groundbreaking soundscaper and reinventor of modern trumpet died on June 26th at age 84

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Alternative Rock Heavy Metal New Wave 

Pregnant With All This Space: Deftones’ White Pony at 20

July 25, 2020July 25, 2020 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 2000, 20th Anniversary, Abe Cunningham, Black Flag, Chi Cheng, Chino Moreno, Deftones, Radiohead, Sade, Suicidal Tendencies, White Pony

Why the art metal band’s third album is still their best

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Alternative Rock Experimental Noise 

Death Poems for the Living Gods of America: Sonic Youth’s NYC Ghosts and Flowers Turns 20

May 21, 2020May 22, 2020 Dan Weiss 1 Comment 2000, Geffen, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, NYC Ghosts & Flowers, Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore

Where Pitchfork went wrong about SY’s most underrated LP

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Indie Rock Pop 

What Bothers You Today: Yo La Tengo’s Electr-O-Pura Turns 25

May 16, 2020May 19, 2020 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1995, Electr-O-Pura, Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan, James McNew, Matador Records, Tom Courtenay, Yo La Tengo

Hoboken’s greatest band made sure you remembered their name in ’95

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Punk 

Spit and Retrieve: The Hives’ Veni Vidi Vicious at 20

May 1, 2020May 1, 2020 Dan Weiss 1 Comment 2000, Epitaph Records, Garage Rock, Hate To Say I Told You So, Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist, Melodic Punk, Sweden, The Hives, The Strokes, The White Stripes, Veni Vidi Vicious

Before Is This It or White Blood Cells was the debut from an even more mysterious Swedish quintet that dressed like Shriners sans fez

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jazz Rock 

Who Makes the Traffic Interesting: Steely Dan’s Two Against Nature Turns 20

April 20, 2020November 2, 2022 Dan Weiss 1 Comment 2000, Donald Fagen, Eminem, Grammys, Kid A, Radiohead, Steely Dan, The Marshall Mathers LP, Two Against Nature, Walter Becker

Why Walter Becker and Donald Fagen deserved to win that Grammy over Radiohead and Eminem

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Rock 

My Mind’s Amiss, I’ve Lost the Kiss: Lou Reed’s Ecstasy at 20

April 6, 2020April 6, 2020 Dan Weiss 1 Comment 2000, Ecstasy, Laurie Anderson, Like A Possum, Lou Reed, Lulu, Metallica, New York, Steely Dan, The Velvet Underground

For any other artist, Lou’s final proper song cycle would’ve been a great last album

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Dub/Reggae Electronic Hip Hop Soul 

I Am She Who Stinks of Men: Tricky’s Maxinquaye at 25

March 13, 2020March 13, 2020 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1995, Adrian Thaws, Island Records, Martina Topley-Bird, Maxinquaye, Public Enemy, Tricky

Plenty of works can lay claim to the title of the Horniest Album of All-Time, but only rarified company like Prince or PJ Harvey can straddle both that shortlist and the one for Greatest Albums Ever Made

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Blues Post-Punk 

Hell Ain’t Half Full: PJ Harvey’s To Bring You My Love Turns 25

March 3, 2020March 3, 2020 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1995, Down By The Water, Island Records, John Parish, Meet Ze Monsta, PJ Harvey, Polly Jean Harvey, Steve Albini, To Bring You My Love

The third Island LP from Polly Jean and her machine remains her singular blues punk masterpiece

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Dub/Reggae Electronic Experimental 

Something I Wrote High to Massive Attack v Mad Professor’s No Protection Which Is Now 25, Hooray!

February 28, 2020February 28, 2020 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1995, 3D, Caroline Records, Dub, High Fidelity, Mad Professor, Massive Attack, Mushroom, No Protection, Robert De Naja, Tracey Thorn

In other words, how to properly experience the best remix album of the 1990s for its silver anniversary

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