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The Arcade Fire
Alan Baban
:: The sheer brute graft of the band's dalliance with hyperkinetics and stroke couture carries over brilliantly...the falafel, by the way, was amazing.
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Long Live the Plague
Alan Baban
:: Alan Baban is quite confident that this article makes perfect sense to you.
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The Pipettes
Alan Baban
:: It’s like if the Stooges went twee and wore dresses. But isn’t that the point?
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Electric Picnic 2006: The Boutique Music Festival
Alan Baban
:: Dotted with all sorts of foodstalls and circus attractions, the Picnic comes off as one gigantic funfair.
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The Pipettes
Alan Baban
:: In which Babs explains the concept of jazzercise.
Interview /
Tapes n' Tapes
Alan Baban
:: So an indie rock reviewer and an indie rock frontman meet up for an interview and dicuss...indie rock.
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The Year I Didn't Discover Rap
Alan Baban
:: Apologetically lame.
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The Arcade Fire
Alan Baban
:: The sheer brute graft of the band's dalliance with hyperkinetics and stroke couture carries over brilliantly...the falafel, by the way, was amazing.
Article /
Long Live the Plague
Alan Baban
:: Alan Baban is quite confident that this article makes perfect sense to you.
Concert Review /
The Pipettes
Alan Baban
:: It’s like if the Stooges went twee and wore dresses. But isn’t that the point?
Festival /
Electric Picnic 2006: The Boutique Music Festival
Alan Baban
:: Dotted with all sorts of foodstalls and circus attractions, the Picnic comes off as one gigantic funfair.
Interview /
The Pipettes
Alan Baban
:: In which Babs explains the concept of jazzercise.
Interview /
Tapes n' Tapes
Alan Baban
:: So an indie rock reviewer and an indie rock frontman meet up for an interview and dicuss...indie rock.
Article /
The Year I Didn't Discover Rap
Alan Baban
:: Apologetically lame.
:: / [collapse↑]
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Alan BabanStaff Writer, Elocutionist
e-mail: alan@cokemachineglow.com
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Amusement Parks on Fire: Self-titled
(2005)
Animal Collective: Fall Be Kind
EP
(2009)
Archie Bronson Outfit: Derdang Derdang
(2006)
Arctic Monkeys: Favourite Worst Nightmare
(2007)
Art Brut: Its a Bit Complicated
(2007)
Atlas Sound: Let the Blind Lead Those Who See but Cannot Feel
(2008)
B.C. Camplight: Blink of a Nihilist
(2007)
Be Your Own Pet: Be Your Own Pet
(2006)
Birdmonster: No Monster
(2006)
James Blunt: Back to Bedlam
(2005)
Bright Eyes: Noise Floor (Rarities 1998-2005)
Comp
(2006)
Bright Eyes: Four Winds
EP
(2007)
Built to Spill: You In Reverse
(2006)
Julian Casablancas: Phrazes for the Young
(2009)
Cheveu: Cheveu
(2008)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Some Loud Thunder
(2007)
Clockcleaner: Babylon Rules
(2007)
Clor: Clor
(2005)
CocoRosie: Noah's Ark
(2005)
Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
(2009)
Criteria: When We Break
(2005)
Crocodiles: Summer of Hate
(2009)
Rivers Cuomo: Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
(2007)
Cymbals Eat Guitars: Why There Are Mountains
(2009)
Destroyer: Bay of Pigs
EP
(2009)
Bob Dylan: Modern Times
(2006)
Eat Skull: Sick to Death
(2008)
Eat Skull: Wild and Inside
(2009)
Eddy Current Suppression Ring: Primary Colours
(NBH)
(2008)
The Enemy: We'll Live and Die in These Towns
(2007)
Gentleman Jesse And His Men: Gentleman Jesse And His Men
(2008)
Good Charlotte: Good Morning Revival
(2007)
Hard-Fi: Cash Machine
(2005)
Harlem: Free Drugs
(2009)
Harlem Shakes: Technicolor Health
(2009)
The Hospitals: Hairdryer Peace
(NBH)
(2008)
Jamie T: Panic Prevention
(2007)
Kelly Jones: Only the Names Have Been Changed
(2007)
The Kills: Midnight Boom
(2008)
Kings of Leon: Because of the Times
(2007)
Klaxons: Myths of the Near Future
(2007)
The Knife: Silent Shout
(2006)
Jens Lekman: Oh You're So Silent Jens
(2005)
Jens Lekman: Night Falls Over Kortedala
(2007)
The Like Young: Last Secrets
(2006)
The Long Blondes: Someone To Drive Your Home
(2006)
Los Llamarada: Take the Sky
(2008)
Muse: H.A.A.R.P.
(2008)
McFly: Wonderland
(2005)
Thurston Moore: Trees Outside the Academy
(2007)
Muse: Black Holes & Revelations
(2006)
No Age: Nouns
(2008)
No Age: Losing Feeling
EP
(2009)
Nobunny: Love Visions
(NBH)
(2008)
Of Montreal: Skeletal Lamping
(2008)
The Ordinary Boys: How to Get Everything You Ever Wanted in Ten Easy Steps
(2006)
Peter Bjorn and John: Writer's Block
(2006)
Peter Bjorn and John: Living Thing
(2009)
Peter, Bjorn and John: Seaside Rock
(2008)
Peter and the Wolf: Lightness
(2006)
Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
(2009)
Plan B: Who Needs Actions When You Got Words
(2006)
Psychedelic Horseshit: Magic Flowers Droned
(2007)
Psychedelic Horseshit: Too Many Hits
(2009)
Radiohead: In Rainbows
(2007)
The Rakes: Capture/Release
(2005)
Real Estate: Real Estate
(2009)
Reigning Sound: Love and Curses
(2009)
Sebadoh: III
Reissue
(1991)
Sonic Youth: Goo (Deluxe Edition)
Reissue
(2005)
Spoon: Transference
(CP)
(2010)
Sunset Rubdown: Random Spirit Lover
(2007)
Talbot Tagora: Lessons in the Woods or a City
(2009)
Tapes 'N Tapes: The Loon
(2005)
Terrible Twos: Terrible Twos
(NBH)
(2008)
Test Icicles: For Screening Purposes Only
(2006)
The Thermals: The Body, The Blood, The Machine
(2006)
Thomas Function: Celebration
(NBH)
(2008)
Times New Viking: Present the Paisley Reich
(2007)
Times New Viking: Rip It Off
(2008)
Times New Viking: Born Again Revisited
(2009)
Chad VanGaalen: Soft Airplane
(2008)
Kurt Vile: Childish Prodigy
(2009)
Voxtrot: Voxtrot
(2007)
Weezer: Raditude
(2009)
Wilco: Sky Blue Sky
(2007)
Co-authored:
Weezer: Weezer
(Weezer)
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Psychedelic Horseshit :: Too Many Hits
(Columbia Discount; 2009) / Rating: 79 / Combined Rating: N/A
