Articles by Matt Charlton

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  Shortcut to Newark

  Heads in Hands, Hearts in Half

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2004

  The strategy almost worked. By plying their liner notes with pictures of themselves wearing trendy rock t-shirts (Sonic Youth and Morrissey...

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  Various

  A Very Special Acoustic Christmas

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  Ho ho ho, this sucks. On their Christmas collection, A Very Special Acoustic Christmas, Lost Highway have combined overdone songs with over...

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  Dragonfly

  Edge of the World

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2004

  While most indie bands can barely afford to package their CDs with anything more than construction paper and masking tape, on Edge of the W...

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  Firewater

  Songs We Should Have Written

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2004

  Throughout their relatively short career Firewater have stayed out-skirted from the outskirts. It’s a shame too, the band is one of the few...

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  Houston Brothers

  The Houston Brothers

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2004

  On their second album, the Houston Brothers’ ability comes in peaks and valleys. The Asheville, NC-based duo linger in the subdued middle g...

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  Spokane

  Measurement

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2004

  While many bands that employ the suburban orchestra sound of Godspeed, Sigur Rós or Mogwai make their music to eventually crash into peaks...

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  Keller Williams

  Home

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2004

  Influences don’t always matter. There are a lot of bands that have overcome an affinity for anything from Bread to Jethro Tull and still ma...

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  Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir

  Saint Hubert

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

  The Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir — the name just sounds like a bunch of middle-aged white guys making rootsy music. While this has been a...