Articles by Kevin Hainey

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  Faun Fables

  Early Song / Mother Twilight

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  One of the first to breathe new life into medieval folk tunes, Dawn "The Faun” McCarthy delivers a wayfaring blend of dark histrionics and...

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  Joan Of Arc

  "Joan of Arc, Dick Cheney, Mark Twain…"

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  Man, pretentious songwriting is such a drag to decipher. Joan of Arc’s main-man, Tim Kinsella, has made a name for himself as being one of...

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  Phil Manzanera

  6pm

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  Aging rock stars more often than not lose the plot in their later years. They become comfortable dining with the bourgeoisie or collecting...

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  Minny Pops

  Drastic Measures, Drastic Movements

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  If "I want to be a machine / I want to be a Minny Pop” were the only words sung/spoken in a thick Dutch accent on "Minny Pops,” the first s...

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  Panda Bear

  Young Prayer

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  Panda Bear, along with Avey Tare, is one of the founding members of Brooklyn’s increasingly prolific noise-pop experimentalists Animal Coll...

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  David Thomas & Two Pale Boys

  18 Monkeys on a Dead Man's Chest

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  Never one to adhere to current trends or marketing ideals, former Pere Ubu and Rocket From the Tombs front-man David Thomas has passed up t...

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  Akufen / Various

  Fabric 17

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  Now don’t get too excited. This isn’t Montreal tech-house wizard Akufen’s follow-up album to his acclaimed and admired 2002 debut, My Way,...

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  Mouse On Mars

  Radical Connector

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  It’s hard to believe this is the same duo (Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner) that put out Iaora Tahiti and Vulvaland in the mid-’90s. Those alb...