Articles by Kevin Hainey

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  Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti

  The Doldrums

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

  Ariel Pink’s incredibly lo-fi and very self-recorded insanity is a whimsically mystical superimposition of soft rock flavours and delightfu...

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  James Chance & the Contortions

  Buy/Paris 1980: Live aux Bain Douches

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

  James Chance (a.k.a. White, real name Siegfried) was the outrageous hot dog of no-wave’s late ’70s implosion, a tight-lipped and wittily sh...

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  James White & the Blacks

  Off White

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

  James Chance (a.k.a. White, real name Siegfried) was the outrageous hot dog of no-wave’s late ’70s implosion, a tight-lipped and wittily sh...

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  Jefferson Airplane

  Fly Jefferson Airplane

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  Let's get one thing straight: Jefferson Airplane is the most overrated of all the mediocre jam-bands that blossomed from San Francisco's Ha...

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  A Certain Ratio

  Sextet

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  As all eyes turned to disco-punk as the hot new musical commodity last year, it seemed fitting that in the middle of the hoopla, new wave-e...

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  Devendra Banhart

  Nino Rojo

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  Critics might laugh and balk at Devendra Banhart’s trippy-dippy earnestness but there’s something I find truly magical about blissfully pla...

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  The Doers

  Ready, Set… Do / I Can Enjoy Almost Anything

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  The Doers are a bratty and bass-driven, three-piece acousto-punk outfit from Vancouver that are fashioned after Minutemen and evoke girl/bo...

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  Donovan

  Beat Café

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  Man, what a bummer. The psych-folk shtick Donovan explored during his glory years finally becomes fashionable again, and he’s away making j...