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Garbage Stick Together This Time

By Evan Rytlewski
 Garbage have been on the road for a long time now. By the time they finish their tour behind their latest album, 2012’s Not Your Kind of People, later this month, the veteran alt-rock band will have been touring for over a year...

Songs of Leonard Cohen

The enduring significance of a great writer

By David Luhrssen
 Leonard Cohen emerged as a recording artist in the 1960s, but even then, he seemed to be in but not of his era. The memorable songs he authored in those years, including...

Paper Holland’s Long-in-the-Making Debut

By Kevin Mueller
 Most students go through college faster than it took Milwaukee’s Paper Holland to finish their debut full-length, Happy Belated. In fact, the recording process resembled something like an education for the band...

The xx Go Small

By Evan Rytlewski
 It’s hard to listen to the hushed, minimal pop of The xx’s debut album without feeling like you’re eavesdropping. When guitarist Romy Madley Croft and bassist Oliver Sim trade verses with each other......

Dr. Dog Goes With the Flow

By Nick Martino
 2009 proved to be a big year for psychedelic chamber-pop darlings Dr. Dog. That summer, the band stepped out of their comfort zone and into the relative big leagues, leaving their hometown label Park the Van Records......
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