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The Yeah Yeah Yeahs have shown a willingness to evolve and expand with each release. First came the garage blast of their early work, through to the gorgeous pop sensibility of Maps, their biggest hit, and onto the more reserved, mature rock of the last album, Show Your Bones. It’s...

There are few greater joys in a music fans life than getting to see a band with a following as large as Cursive playing in a 200 person local venue, like San Diego’s Casbah. Three years since their last album Cursive is on tour again, fresh off releasing, “Mama, I’m...

Mi Ami is a trio based out of San Francisco comprised of singer / guitarist Daniel Martin-McCormick, bassist Jacob Long and drummer Damon Palermo. Martin-McCormick and Long have played together in several bands, the most prominent of which being Black Eyes, a hyper-rhythmic experimental punk band. They have managed to...

Anamanaguchi are in the strange position of being a novelty within a novelty. They’re apart of the endlessly fascinating chiptune niche-genre, a tight-knit community of avant-electronic musicians that have harnessed the sounds of their Game Boys and Super Nintendos to make dance and electronic music, led by the forerunning label...

Like "Citrus" was, "Hush" is a good Dream Pop album with pretty textures and some very good songs, but "Hush" is not a 2009 album. "Hush could have come out as the bonus disc to either of Asobi Seksu's previous albums, not much has changed stylistically since the band's...