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May 2007

David Greenwald

:: Featuring: Clientele, Broken West, Evangelicals, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, One AM Radio...


Features:
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Concert Review /
Interpol / Liars

David Greenwald

:: In contrast to Interpol’s stark, almost clinical performance, opening band Liars seemed oddly comfortable under the arena’s towering rafters.
Concert Review /
The Sea & Cake

David Greenwald

:: Both, of course, wore jeans.
Concert Review /
Grizzly Bear

David Greenwald

:: In which Devendra Banhart stole David Greenwald's girlfriend simply by letting a lil' pube hair escape over the rim of his jeans.
Article /
The Year in Fey

David Greenwald

:: No thanks, Dad.
Concert Review /
Joanna Newsom

David Greenwald

:: It’s not that Ys is so difficult or even too long -- just that it’s an album that requires the listener’s full attention, which is why seeing it performed in its entirety was so riveting, and so necessary.
Interview /
Hem

David Greenwald

:: Hem's Dan Messé tells us all about the voices in his head.
Interview /
Grizzly Bear

David Greenwald

:: Thanks, broken van brakes!
Concert Review /
Willie Nelson, Ryan Adams & Neko Case

David Greenwald

:: Who needs convincing for a slice of apple pie?
Interview /
Centro-matic

David Greenwald

:: Johnson: Can I bring people back from the dead?
CMG: Yes, absolutely.
Interview /
Rose Melberg

David Greenwald

:: Boogz really did try his best to hide his undying love of Rose Melberg.
Interview /
The National

David Greenwald

:: Turns out we asked the wrong guy if he was up all night being a tortured artist and writing poetry.
Concert Review /
The National

David Greenwald

:: The band opened with “Secret Meeting” and never lost momentum, running through most of Alligator and a few older tracks. The songs were longer, looser, louder...
Concert Review /
Calexico

David Greenwald

:: A thrilling performance by a band at a crossroads.
Artist Profile /
The Softies: A Retrospective

David Greenwald

:: For a few blissful albums and assorted 7-inch vinyl singles, the Softies were the saddest, sweetest band in the world.
Article /
The Decemberists: Think You're Done With That List? Not So Fast

David Greenwald

:: Boogz n' Ryan 4ever.
Interview /
Clue to Kalo

David Greenwald

:: Mitchell clearly doesn't know what he's talking about. Julian Casablancas whined for years, his dad still wouldn't buy him Abbey Road.
Interview /
The Minus Story

David Greenwald

:: The most rigorous muffin-eating schedule in indie rock.
Festival /
Arthurfest, Pt. 2

David Greenwald

:: Round 2: Spoon, Yoko, and of course, a final stop on the Olivia Tremor Control reunion tour. Maybe we’d even see Adam Brody.
Festival /
Arthurfest, Pt. 1

David Greenwald

:: “Super bass Jesus stop please.”
Interview /
Lewis & Clarke

David Greenwald

:: Rogai comes out punching: that Crüe namedrop is totally backhanded.
Interview /
One AM Radio

David Greenwald

:: Lesson learned: never get a violinist to park your car.
Concert Review /
Irwin, the One AM Radio & Daedalus

6981

:: It plays out like Since I Left You in warp drive, with hip-hop party beats sandwiched between female showtune vocals and obscure film scores.
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David Greenwald
Boogz

e-mail: greenwald@cokemachineglow.com

Record Reviews:
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Fleet Foxes :: Fleet Foxes
(Sub Pop; 2008)Constantines :: Kensington Heights
(Arts & Crafts; 2008)Destroyer :: Trouble in Dreams
(Merge; 2008)Hello, Blue Roses :: The Portrait Is Finished And I Have Failed To Capture Your Beauty...
(Locust; 2008)Chad VanGaalen :: Infiniheart
(Flemish Eye/Sub Pop; 2004/2005)
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Ryan Adams & The Cardinals :: Jacksonville City Nights Ryan Adams :: 29 Ryan Adams :: Easy Tiger AK-MOMO :: Return to N.Y. Lily Allen :: Alright, Still Aloha :: Some Echoes The Autumn Defense :: The Autumn Defense Big Star :: In Space Paul Brill :: Harpooner The Brokedown :: The Dutchman's Gold EP The Broken West :: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On Vashti Bunyan :: Just Another Diamond Day (OF) Calexico :: Garden Ruin Cardinal :: Cardinal Centro-matic :: Fort Recovery The Charade :: A Real Life Drama Clue To Kalo :: One Way, It's Every Way Constantines :: Kensington Heights Destroyer :: Trouble in Dreams Devics :: Push the Heart Division Day :: Beartrap Island (NBH) Dean Drouillard :: Dream at Harmony Motel Evangelicals :: So Gone Fleet Foxes :: Fleet Foxes Ben Folds :: Songs For Silverman Fruit Bats :: Spelled In Bones Golden Smog :: Another Fine Day David Gray :: Life in Slow Motion Great Lake Swimmers :: Bodies and Minds (NBH) Grizzly Bear :: Yellow House Haushka :: Room to Expand Hello, Blue Roses :: The Portrait Is Finished And I Have Failed To Capture Your Beauty... Hem :: Funnel Cloud Hem :: No Word From Tom Hem :: Rabbit Songs Hezekiah Jones :: Hezekiah Says You're A-OK Holopaw :: Quit +/or Fight Hylozoists :: La Fin du Monde Iron Hero :: Safe as Houses Seu Jorge :: The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions Kite Flying Society :: Where is the Glow? Lambchop :: Damaged Sondre Lerche :: Phantom Punch Sondre Lerche & the Faces Down Quartet :: Duper Sessions Lewis & Clarke :: Bare Bones & Branches (NBH) Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins :: Rabbit Fur Coat Loney, Dear :: Loney, Noir The Long Winters :: Putting the Days to Bed Loose Fur :: Born Again in the USA Lullatone :: Plays Pajama Pop Pour Vous The Magic Numbers :: The Magic Numbers The Main Drag :: Yours As Fast As Mine (NBH) Aimee Mann :: The Forgotten Arm Maritime :: We, The Vehicles Math and Physics Club :: Math and Physics Club (NBH) Rose Melberg :: Cast Away the Clouds Meligrove Band :: Planets Conspire Method Man :: 4:21...The Day After... Metric :: Live it Out Minus Story :: No Rest for Ghosts Morning Recordings :: Music for Places Mountains :: Sewn Nada Surf :: The Weight is a Gift New Buffalo :: Somewhere, Anywhere Ninja High School :: Young Adults Against Suicide Faris Nourallah :: King of Sweden Of Montreal :: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? Okkervil River :: Black Sheep Boy Appendix EP Okkervil River :: Black Sheep Boy Ola Podrida :: Ola Podrida The One AM Radio :: This Too Will Pass Pants Yell! :: Recent Drama (NBH) Paper Airplanes :: Boyhood (NBH) Saturday Looks Good To Me :: Fill Up the Room The Thrills :: Teenager Chad VanGaalen :: Infiniheart Laura Veirs :: Saltbreakers Venice is Sinking :: Sorry About the Flowers Rocky Votolato :: Makers Rocky Votolato :: The Brag & Cuss What Made Milwaukee Famous :: Trying To Never Catch Up Why? :: Elephant Eyelash Winter Vacation :: The Netherlands, 1980

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Bishop Allen :: January / February / March / April / May / June EP (NBH)
[↓top rated albums of 2008 by this author] /
Fleet Foxes :: Fleet Foxes
(Sub Pop; 2008) / Rating: 84 / Combined Rating: 80 Constantines :: Kensington Heights
(Arts & Crafts; 2008) / Rating: 81 / Combined Rating: 75 Destroyer :: Trouble in Dreams
(Merge; 2008) / Rating: 81 / Combined Rating: 65 Hello, Blue Roses :: The Portrait Is Finished And I Have Failed To Capture Your Beauty...
(Locust; 2008) / Rating: 66 / Combined Rating: 63