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31 Knots will keep you Worried Well

As I’ve mentioned several times in the past, when looking at indie record labels, I see them as taste makers – once I’m hooked on one artist I keep drilling down their complete roster. This brought me to Polyvinyl Records home to 31 Knots, of Montreal, Architecture in Helsinki aside many other well articulated acts. […]

Lykke Li - Youth Novels

What happens when a young Swedish woman decides that it is no acceptable for a woman of 20 years old to have a record? She starts working with Bjorn Yttling (of Peter Bjorn and John), and over a 10 month stretch, something seductively innocent is ready to be released on August 19th. Youth […]

The New Faint Video -The Geeks Were Right

It’s been a few years since we’ve gotten some new material from The Faint. The Oklahoma band is back with a new video entitled “The Geeks Were Right”, and it’s a jam. Fasciinatiion came out August 5th, and this is the first single. What’s new is they are no longer on Saddle […]

Review: Beck’s Modern Guilt - Not As Good As They Say

[Originally posted on the RSL Blog]
Before I go very far, I hope this isn’t your first read of the RSL. We don’t do negative pieces for the most part. We get hundreds of albums each year for review. And rather than to spend time ripping apart bad projects my feeling is that the readers will […]

HELL’S GROUND: The Best Pakistani Horror Film I’ve Ever Seen

When you watch enough horror films (some may even say too many horror films, but what do they know) you will eventually find yourself honing in on some pretty exotic hybridizations. We all grub about, clamouring for the new, seeking something we haven’t already seen. Even though what we usually end up finding isn’t really […]

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