Articles by Emily Orr

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  Elastica

  The BBC Radio One Sessions

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2003

  This is the re-release of Wire’s androgynous disowned bastard offspring’s last hurrah. Originally out in 2001, the year before the group di...

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  The Kills

  Keep On Your Mean Side

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2003

  Sure, they’re influenced by blues basics and garage punk. Yes, they’re a co-ed hipster couple with an ambiguous relationship. And yeah, the...

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  Starlight Mints

  Built On Squares

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2003

  There must be something in Oklahoma’s groundwater supply. From the small and unassuming corner of the world that spawned everyone’s favouri...

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  Blur

  Art Pop's Life of Leisure

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2003

  The bowl cuts. The booze. The birds. The animated apes and spaceships, the woo hoo and vindaloo. From their shaky beginnings as chaotic con...

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  All Girl Summer Fun Band

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  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2003

  The name really does say it all. This quartet of Portland scenesters and band veterans is purely estrogen-fuelled, and their mission statem...

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  New Wet Kojak

  This Is The Glamorous

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2003

  Make way for this slick, gelled and tanned concept album featuring Girls Vs. Boys members Scott McCloud and Johnny Temple. This fourth rele...

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  Kinski

  Airs Above Your Station

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2003

  This Seattle-based instrumental rock quartet creates suites to rival both Godspeed!'s orchestral beauty and Mogwai's noisy bombast. Yet nei...

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  Zwan

  Mary Star of the Sea

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2003

  Billy Corgan is for some odd reason billed with the surname "Burke" in the liner notes of Zwan's debut outing. Perhaps it's a flimsy attemp...