Articles by Eric Hill

Camouflage

Spice Crackers

PUBLISHED Nov 23, 2009

Unlike rock and pop's backwards peeking, nostalgic feelings do not so easily attach themselves to dance music. Without consulting the album...

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Cauldron Subsidence

PUBLISHED Nov 23, 2009

On his second release for Echocord, Sven Schienhammer carves a groove across a variety of minimal genres, from dub-step to Berlin techno, w...

Do Radiohead Actually "Kinda Blow"?

PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2009

Will bashing one of rock's biggest bands and previously unassailable darlings of the press become the thing to do at the close of 2009? Fir...

Japandroids Confirmed for SXSW in First Line-Up Announcement

PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2009

Though the hip ironists at The Daily Swarm bill it as "the first 6 of 40 million bands," it is worth celebrating the fact that Vancouver's...

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Feels, Feathers, Bog And Bees

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2009

Unlike the direct Appalachian feed that nourishes American groups like Fleet Foxes and Le Loup, this UK ensemble derive their folk sound in...

Castanets

Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beasts

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2009

Like Bill Callahan or Will Oldham, Ray Raposa finds a secret spot in the fabric of American music that allows tradition's loose threads to...

Todor Kobakov

Pop Music

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2009

The trend of classical music crossing over into the mainstream (or our non-MTV/HMV version of the mainstream) has peaked recently with arti...

Ganesh Anandan & Hans Reichel

Self Made

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2009

The title of this duo improvisation refers to the source of instruments employed. That is, their inventors wield them. Hans Reichel plays t...