Articles by Daniel Sylvester

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  Steve Gunn & the Black Twig Pickers

  Seasonal Hire

  PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2015

  If Steve Gunn hadn't made this record with the Black Twig Pickers, the Brooklyn virtuoso may just have been forever compared to fellow John...

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  Sam Prekop

  The Republic

  PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2015

  Ditching his customary melodies and guitars for analog synthesizers and oscillators, Sam Prekop's third solo album, 2010's Old Punch Card,...

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  Grooms

  Comb the Feelings Through Your Hair

  PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2015

  From cutting their teeth at the now-defunct Brooklyn studio and practice space Death by Audio, Grooms have learned to craft tasteful and st...

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  Laika

  Silver Apples of the Moon

  PUBLISHED Feb 3, 2015

  One element left unmentioned in the current '90s indie rock revival is the genre's tight association with experimental music, as bands like...

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  Ricked Wicky

  I Sell the Circus

  PUBLISHED Feb 3, 2015

  After reforming and disbanding Guided by Voices during a three-year whirlwind that saw the Dayton, Ohio band release six full-lengths and a...

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  Ty Segall Band

  Live in San Francisco

  PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2015

  When you look at the stellar lineup of acts that have graced Castle Face Records' Live in San Francisco series (White Fence, the Fresh and...

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  The Dodos

  Individ

  PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2015

  After the 2012 death of their live guitarist, Christopher Reimer (also of Women), the Dodos went in to the studio to recorded Carrier, an a...

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  Marilyn Manson

  The Pale Emperor

  PUBLISHED Jan 16, 2015

  An artist as calculated and ostensibly one-dimensional as Marilyn Manson shouldn't be making music anything this close to respectable 20 ye...