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Acid Baby Jesus
Acid Mothers Temple
Ad Astra Per Aspera
Air Waves
Allah-Las
Amen Dunes
Animosity
Approach
Arctic Monkeys
Ashes of Immortality
Atlas Sound
Bassnectar
Ben Miller Band
Benoit Pioulard
Between the Buried and Me
Big Gigantic
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Bring Me the Horizon
Buckwheat Zydeco
Carnal Torpor
Chiodos
Cloud Dog
Coalesce
Cosmopolitics
Cowboy Indian Bear
Daniel Johnston
Datsik
Dawes
Dead Girls
Dead Meadow
Dean Monkey & the Dropouts
Death Cab for Cutie
Deertick
DIIV
Dirtfoot
Discoverer
Dr. Dog
Drakkar Sauna
Dosh
Dumptruck Butterlips
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes
El Ten Eleven
Eminem
EOTO
Fourth of July
Fruit Bats
Fucked Up
Galactic
Garotas Suecas
Ghosty
Goodwillies
Greg Enemy
Grizzly Bear
Guantanamo Baywatch
GULL
Head for the Hills
Heavy Times
Hellshovel
Hospital Ships
Iceage
Irv Da Phenom
Jabberjosh
Jeff Beck
JEFF the Brotherhood
Jeffrey Lewis
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Rock-A-Rolla back issues are available to order now! Issue 25 features:

Kayo Dot, Ufomammut, Oxbow, Red Sparowes, Black Breath, Jucifer, Eluvium, Wold, Arabrot, Mouse on the Keys, Caspian, Errors
Plus album reviews: Autechre, Admiral Angry, Bersarin Quartett, The Besnard Lakes, Blessure Grave, Bear in Heaven, Castrovalva, Coconuts, Daughters, Creature With the Atom Brain, Rhys Chatham, Fenn O’Berg, Centurions Ghost, Daedelus, Elephant9, Dead Meadow, The Bastard Noise, The Endless Blockade, Detritivore, EF, P.G. Lost, Disappears, Dosh, High on Fire, Excepter, Extra Life, Hayaino Daisuki, Fear Factory, Francisco Lopez, Jonas Reinhardt, Javelin, Kid606, Kouhei Matsunaga, Loscil, Ludicra, Malachai, Medications, Mi Ami, Alexandre Navarro, Nice Nice, North Atlantic Oscillations, O Yuki Conjugate, Priestess, Pavement, Rob Swift, Jack Rose, Rashomon, Sweet Apple, Shining, Spartak, Triptykon, Ural Umbo…

1.Tera Melos
2.Kickball
3.Anything with Zach Hill
4.Mount Eerie
5.Why? (almost saw Josiah live...)
6.Giraffes? Giraffes! (closest was UNH w/ KYOTY who I've seen live)
7.Russian Circles
8.Paul Baribeau √√ (for real... no lie)
9.Nana Grizol (Missed 'em when they came to P-town) (shame)
10.La Dispute (May have come to the Deering Grange Hall or Windham?)
11.Defeater (Missed 'em in Windham(?))
12.Aesop Rock
13.O'Death (coming to the Space in september)
14.Red Medicine (super nice cats... missed 'em like three times already) √√ (RIP)
15.Chalk Talk (saw Pachangacha!)
16.This Town Needs Guns
17.Deer Tick (Probably have come to the Space/Port City)
18.Fang Island (Came to Port City for RX Bandits)
19.Victor! Fix The Sun
20.Captain Hollow (from Banger Maine) √√√
21.The Tallest Man on Earth
22.The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
23.Good Luck
24.Joanna Newsom (Why the hell not!)
25.If These Trees Could Talk
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in something like chronological order, but not really because i can't track down ticket stubs and my memory is kind of fuzzy on some of these.

Bill Keith x2 (i think). (1997, 1998?)
Tony Trischka (1998?)
Incubus (2002)
Phantom Planet (2002)
Damien Rice (2004)
The Frames (2004)
Interpol x2 (2004, 2005)
The Cure (2004)
Muse (2004)
Mogwai (2004)
The Rapture (2004)
Boom Bip (2005)
Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive (2005)
Modest Mouse (2005)
Gavin DeGraw (2005)
Amiina (2006)
Sigur Rós (2006)
The Avett Brothers (2008)
the toughcats x a lot (mostly 2008, 2009)
The Wiyos x3 (2008, 2009)
Tim Fite (2008)
Man Man (2008)
Andrew Bird x2 (2008, 2011)
Sandro Perri (2008)
The Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour x2 (2008, 2011)
Julian Koster x2 (2009, 2011)
Brian Dewan (2009)
Nana Grizol x2 (2009)
The Music Tapes x4 (2009, 2010, 2011)
They Might Be Giants (2009)
Audrey Ryan x2 (2009)
South China (2009)
The Waybacks (2009)
Nesey Gallons x2 (2009, 2011)
Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't (2009)
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Interpol - The Pageant - 2/11/11
Richard Buckner/Sebadoh - Off Broadway - 4/2/11
The Apache Relay/Tristen/Ezra Furman and the Harpoons - The Firebird - 4/15/11
The National/Arcade Fire - Scottrade - 4/21/11
Ha Ha Tonka - Off Broadway - 4/22/11
Beans/Tobacco - Off Broadway - 5/6/11
Asobi Seksu/Neon Indian - The Firebird - 6/8/11
Scott H. Biram - Off Broadway - 6/10/11
7 Shot Screamers/Porter Hall, TN/The Dock Ellis Band/The Monads - Off Broadway - 7/2/11
Mountain Man - Off Broadway -7/21/11
Kings Go Forth/Dom/Surfer Blood/Deerhunter/The Hold Steady - LouFest -8/27/11
The Low Anthem/Das Racist/!!!/Cat Power/TV on the Radio - LouFest - 8/28/11
Dirty 30's/Royal Smokestacks/Jesse Irwin - El Lenador - 8/31/11
Dosh/Black Moth Super Rainbow - Off Broadway - 9/12/11
Bunnygrunt/Wagons/Those Darlins - Off Broadway
Supermoon/Carrier Pigeons/The Parson Red Heads/ Viva Voce - The Firebird - 9/20/11
Alison Krauss & Union Station - The Fox - 9/22/11
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1. Magnus Carlsson - Pop Galaxy
2. Krister Linder - Shrine of Time EP
3. Harold Budd & Clive Wright - Little Windows
4. David Sylvian - Sleepwalkers
5. world's end girlfriend - SEVEN IDIOTS
6. Gravitonas - The Coliseum EP
7. Dosh - Tommy
8. Alexander Rybak - No Boundaries
9. Gravitonas - The Hypnosis EP
10. Akira Rabelais - Caduceus

Martin Dosh started out as a drummer according to his bio. That makes sense as the percussion here is of a tactile nature. Little tiny taps are given as much attention as the big kicks. Organizationally speaking, it is really a big draw of the album. Everything contributes to the rhythm, it kind of reminds me of some early Fridge or Four Tet kind of stuff, the way the drums feel so free.


Of course, this would mean nothing if it weren’t for the melodies they helped structure. Generally speaking, I enjoyed the longer songs on the album, where he had more space to roam. The melodies are sweet, caring, charming. They require some time and patience, but are ultimately worth the effort.


“Gare de Lyon”, which closes the disc, is easily my favorite. Here you get to see all the themes he explored earlier realized in full. Bits and pieces are added into the mix to create a spiffy little track. It is so good that after you listen to it, you might want to re-listen to the rest of the album. …

PopMatters Soundscape Mix #11 Happy Holidays (Organic)
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Track Listing:
01. Blitzen Trapper - "Christmas Is Coming Soon" (I'll Stay 'Til After Christmas, 2008)
02. Sean Smith - "Christmas Morning (Improvisation I)" (Christmas, 2010)
03. Lightning Dust - "Ho Ho Ho" (The Eggnog Experience, 2009)
04. Campfire Ok - "Dreidel Song" (XO for the Holidays Vol 3, 2010)
05. Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - "Little Drummer Boy" (A Very Ping Pong Christmas: Funky Treats from Santa's Bag, 2007)
06. Hauschka - "Snow" (Foreign Landscapes, 2010)
07. Liam Singer - "Winter Weeds" (Dislocatia, 2010)
08. Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid - "Greensleeves" (Tongues, 2007)
09. Foxes in Fiction - "Snow Angels" (Swung From Branches, 2010)
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