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Sep 17th Video: Early Day Miners – Comfort/Guilt

Sep 17th New Release: Early Day Miners – Offshore

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Over the course of the last decade Daniel Burton (the man behind Early Day Miners) has become one of the mid-west’s best kept secrets. Mentored by Daniel Lanois at his Teatro Studio in Los Angeles, Burton has been putting his project-oriented stamp on a variety of records for the last 10 years. Anywhere from early Songs: Ohia recordings to tribal rumblings of On Fillmore (Glenn Kotche of Wilco’s band with the venerable Darin Gray) to the pink noise and melodies of Windsor for the Derby, Burton’s ideas and experiences with various bands in the studio have coalesced into this career-defining work, Offshore.

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Tracklist:
Disk | 1

1. Land Of Pale Saints
2. Deserter
3. Sans Revival
4. Return Of The Native
5. Silent Tents
6. Hymn Beneath The Palisades

Sep 17th Video: Cursive – The Recluse

Sep 17th New Release: Cursive – Happy Hollow

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After more than a year’s hiatus, Cursive’s reemergence finds the freshly reconstituted quartet as self-assured and assertive as ever. And rather than retread familiar artistic ground for which they’ve accrued accolades by the vanload, Cursive has unfurled their most adventurous and accomplished work to date, Happy Hollow. Happy Hollow is an expansion of Cursive’s trademark discordant swell: dissonant yet distinctively melodic guitar sounds and frontman Kasher’s ever-cathartic yowl mesh and clash with horns, piano, accordion and other various instrumentation. Eschewing the stock-in-trade relationship lyrics of recent records for a broader scope, Happy Hollow explores and dissects such themes as shattered American dreams, small-town malaise and religious hypocrisy.

Tracklist:
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1. Opening the Hymnal/Babies
2. Dorothy at Forty
3. Big Bang
4. Bad Sects
5. Flag and Family
6. Dorothy Dreams of Tornadoes
7. Retreat!!
8. The Sunks
9. At Conception
10. So-So Gigolo
11. Bad Science
12. Into the Fold
13. Rise Up! Rise Up!
14. Hymns for the Heathen

Sep 16th Video: Nine Inch Nails – Only

Sep 16th About: Nine Inch Nails

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Nine Inch Nails (abbreviated as NIN and typeset as NIИ) is a critically and commercially successful American band formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1988 by Trent Reznor, who is the only consistent member. As producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor has remained solely responsible for the musical direction of the band, and has described NIN as “two separate entities” [1]: the “studio,” consisting almost entirely of himself; and the live band.

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Genre
Variously, NIN’s sound has been described as alternative, electronica, heavy metal, rock, or, most commonly, industrial or industrial rock. Regarding his music being categorized as industrial, Reznor said in a 1994 Axcess Magazine interview:

What was originally called industrial music was about 20 years ago Throbbing Gristle and Test Dept. We have very little to do with it other than there is noise in my music and there is noise in theirs. I’m working in the context of a pop song structure whereas those bands didn’t. And because someone didn’t come up with a new name that separates those two somewhat unrelated genres, it tends to irritate all the old school fans waving their flags of alternativeness and obscurity. So, I’d say I’ve borrowed from certain styles and bands like that.[4]

NIN’s songs cover a range of genres: “The Perfect Drug” has the flavor of drum and bass, “Down in It” was influenced by early Skinny Puppy [5] this can be heard by comparing the beat to “Dig It”, “Happiness in Slavery” is tinged with industrial metal in the vein of Ministry, “The Frail” is a melancholy piano piece, and most of Pretty Hate Machine could be considered dark electronic pop.

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Sep 15th Video: Sebadoh – Willing To Wait

Sep 11th Video: Tortoise – Salt The Skies

Sep 11th Video: The Mountain Goats – Woke Up New

Sep 11th New Release: The Mountain Goats – Get Lonely

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Get Lonely is every bit as assured as its predecessor, The Sunset Tree, but the mood is entirely different. Sunset chronicled the fraught, violent relationship between John Darnielle and his stepfather and derived its power from an unblinking exorcism of personal demons, while Get Lonely is the haunted aftermath. It’s a reflective, intimate record. The mood is one of bittersweet resignation rather than cathartic release. It’s a quiet triumph, murmuring with a modest but entirely surefooted confidence. An uncannily coherent and subtly redemptive record which will come to be seen as Mountain Goats’ most resonant, assured, and magical collection of songs so far.

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