Articles by Eric Hill

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  Monahans

  Dim the Aurora

  PUBLISHED Jun 15, 2009

  Despite its four-day stubble and truck stop diet, alt-country is a fussy little creature. Very slight variations to the fuel can turn high...

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  The Wooden Birds

  Magnolia

  PUBLISHED Jun 15, 2009

  After more than a decade of surfing contrails with his blissful buds in American Analog Set, Andrew Kelly has planted his boots firmly on t...

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  City Center

  City Center

  PUBLISHED Jun 15, 2009

  The same shifty restlessness that made Saturday Looks Good to Me such an undervalued pop curiosity blossoms at the heart of Fred Thomas' Ci...

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  Matt Krefting

  I Couldn't Love You More

  PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2009

  Matt Krefting had toiled for more than a decade in self-described "quiet music" project Son of Earth when Thurston Moore, the guardian ange...

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  Wand

  Hard Knox

  PUBLISHED May 24, 2009

  The fact that James Toth's website comes up as a Cyrillic language study of Russian forest management is a good indication that tricksteris...

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  Dirty Projectors

  Bitte Orca

  PUBLISHED May 24, 2009

  Dave Longstreth assures me he is neither a Queen nor a Gastr Del Sol fan. And although there are elements of bombast and compositional comp...

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  Bachelorette

  My Electric Family

  PUBLISHED May 21, 2009

  Annabel Alpers obviously doesn't follow the software instructions that normally come with the "how to be a technology-driven solo artist" b...

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  Wooden Shjips

  Dos

  PUBLISHED May 21, 2009

  To achieve rock and spiritual transcendence, if you recall, Bono needed only his red guitar, three chords and the truth. I don't know what...