Linda Laban
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Along with contributing to Spinner, Noisecreep, and Popeater, Linda Laban has been published in New Musical Express, CMJ, Record Collector, and Kerrang!, and is a regular writer for the Metro newspapers.
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If there's a message behind the engaging soufflé groove of Yoav's alt-pop nugget, 'Yellowbrite Smile,' it's one of spiritual disenfranchisement. A 'Yellowbrite Smile,' Yoav tells Spinner, is an empty one. "It's like a trademark, like the yellowed smile, like the smiley symbol," he says. "It's about commercialism, distraction by the ...
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Toby Summerskill
London, England's Portico Quartet isn't the average young new band of skinny 20-somethings. For one thing, the foursome doesn't play easily marketed indie rock or pop; they play instrumental jazz with a world flavor. So far, though, the band's differences from the pop status quo have proved a plus. Take the instrumental lineup on ...
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Six years is a long time between records, but that's how long it's been since indie-folk-pop duo Azure Ray released their acclaimed album, 'Hold on Love.' Finally, the pair -- Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor -- are about to break that recording silence with 'Drawing Down the Moon,' a new full-length album set for release on Saddle Creek Records in ...
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Just days after Phosphorescent's rented van and $40,000 worth of equipment was stolen in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., it was found with every single piece of gear inside, untouched.
"I'm relieved, believe me. It's insane. It's been crazy," the band's frontman Matthew Houck tells Spinner, still lost for words in summing up this ...
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Everest are on a journey of self-discovery. The Los Angeles-based rootsy rockers recently launched the east coast leg of their summer tour opening for Minus the Bear, a jaunt that makes for a stylistically odd coupling. "It's an interesting fit musically," Everest frontman Russell Pollard tells Spinner. "Personally, we get along with those guys ...
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My Brightest Diamond's Shara Worden and renowned jazzy singer-songwriter Dayna Kurtz will swap songs for a split seven-inch single, to be released on vinyl and digitally Jul. 20. While Worden covers Kurtz's acclaimed 'Postcards From Downtown,' from her 2002 album of that name, Kurtz redoes MBD's haunting 'Gone Away.'
A couple of weeks ago, the ...
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For a man who's used to rocking eight turntables, you'd think cutting back to one might simplify things for Cut Chemist. Following his collaboration with DJ Shadow, where the DJ/producers played with four turntables apiece, the L.A. artist uses just one on his new live mix album, 'Sound of the Police.' But Cut Chemist, aka Lucas McFadden, reveals ...
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