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Dinosaur Jr. @ The Troubadour, West Hollywood 6/23/09
With the excellent Farm, J, Murph, and Lou are back and spry as ever. And with their colossal amp and pedal rigs, they are eardrum rupturing as ever, too. Dinosaur Jr. is touring to show everybody how...
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Dirty Projectors/Magnolia Electric Co./Crystal Antlers @ Williamsburg...
A busy weekend of live music in NYC wound up with a fantastic, if somewhat mismatched, lineup at the Williamsburg Waterfront on Sunday. The show was the second installment of the relocated “Pool...
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Crystal Antlers –“Tentacles”
Crystal Antlers’ Tentacles, a collection of sweaty psychedelia and noisily expansive garage rock, was ostensibly the last new album to be released by Touch & Go. Sad, yeah, but good to see the...
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Fuck Yeah Fest 2009 In Photos
In its sixth year, Fuck Yeah Fest had the explicit intention of benefitting California’s state parks, and implicit intention of scaring away media outlets afraid of things with “Fuck” in the title....
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CMJ ’09: Thursday In Photos
On Thursday at CMJ the xx played theIr 66th and 67th shows of the week — one at the Apple Store SoHo, another as the “x-rated” secret guest at the horribly delayed, horribly sweaty Club NME showcase at...
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New Bob Dylan Video –“Must Be Santa”
Robert Zimmerman’s Christmas In The Heart polka gets itself a jolly house party video complete with dancing, drinking, fighting, short shorts, and an empathetic Santa. It was directed by Nash Edgerton,...
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Crystal Antlers –“Little Sister” (Stereogum Premiere)
The last time we checked in with Crystal Antlers via their adrenaline-soaked Tentacles title track, we spent a bit of the post lamenting the end of Touch & Go because the collection was ostensibly...
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New Indie Rock Christmas Songs For 2010
Every blog does a Christmas mix, so here’s ours, with a small twist: All of these tracks are new for this year Xmas songs, not the classics or Sufjan leftovers. I’ve also included streams for charity...
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Under The Influence: Crystal Antlers Two-Way Mirror
As part of our new recurring feature Under The Influence we asked Long Beach psych-garage rockers Crystal Antlers to make us a mix of the songs that inspired their latest album Two-Way Mirror. Their...
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Crystal Antlers –“Dog Days” Video
While it still definitely fits into the “young people going hammer” motif, Crystal Antlers’ video for “Dog Days” is a little bit of a tone change as a group of friends celebrate a dead friend. Check...
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Crystal Antlers –“Rattlesnake”
The chaotic Californian psych-rock band Crystal Antlers have been quiet for a minute, but they’re back this fall with a new picture disc 7″. And the single’s leadoff track is “Rattlesnake,” an assured...
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CMJ ’08: Crystal Antlers @ FADER Fort
One way in which FADER wins at CMJ: They throw their parties at non-music venues in the music-venue heavy LES, ensuring mucho blog writeups plus SEO-maximizing post title mentions (if I could I would...
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Stereogum’s Top 8 From CMJ ’08
The crew here managed to fly through some 70+ sets of music last week, and boy is our abilty-to-wade-through-the-sadness-that’s-passing-for-buzzed-up-indie-rock tired. There’s a very scientific formula...
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New Live Crystal Antlers –“Andrew”
Past live favorites Crystal Antlers are following 2008′s self-titled, initially self-released EP with Tentacles, their Touch & Go full-length debut. They performed a track from the new collection,...
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New Crystal Antlers –“Andrew”
Long Beach sextet Crystal Antlers’ forthcoming Tentacles will ostensibly be the last new album released by Touch & Go. If that indeed proves to be the case, it’s not a bad way to go out: Tentacles...
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New Crystal Antlers Video –“Andrew”
We first caught Crystal Antlers’ “Andrew” in sweaty live form, which isn’t a bad way to make its acquaintance. It’s the most immediate track from the Long Beach sextet’s forthcoming Touch & Go...
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Dinosaur Jr. @ The Troubadour, West Hollywood 6/23/09
With the excellent Farm, J, Murph, and Lou are back and spry as ever. And with their colossal amp and pedal rigs, they are eardrum rupturing as ever, too. Dinosaur Jr. is touring to show everybody how...
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Crystal Antlers –“Licorice Pizza”
If you turned the breakdown of the Stooges’ “I Wanna Be Your Dog” into a power-punk anthem with a goofy title, you’d have “Licorice Pizza,” this brand new track from Crystal Antlers. It comes from...
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Crystal Antlers –“Licorice Pizza” Video
Crystal Antlers released their LP Nothing Is Real today and have delivered a video for its single “Licorice Pizza” along with it. The clip does not solve the mystery of what is licorice pizza and oddly...
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New Crystal Antlers Video –“Andrew”
We first caught Crystal Antlers' "Andrew" in sweaty live form, which isn't a bad way to make its acquaintance. It's the most immediate track from the Long Beach sextet's forthcoming Touch & Go...
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