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Founded in 1984, the Tucson Weekly has become an iconoclastic institution in this sprawling desert boom town with a population approaching 1 million. With its reputation for diverse, compelling journalism with an edge, the paper has built a readership of...
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The Tallest Man on Earth: There's No Leaving Nownew
A couple of years after his breakthrough sophomore album, The Wild Hunt, Swedish singer/songwriter Kristian Matsson has toned things down for There's No Leaving Now, but it's still a beguiling, dark work.
Tucson Weekly |
Michael Petitti |
08-30-2012 |
Reviews
Islands: A Sleep and a Forgetting (Anti-)new
Only a heartless pustule or jaundiced cynic would actively cheer for heartbreak. Still, the history of popular music teaches that albums inspired by heartbreak are often a prickly sort of brilliant.
Tucson Weekly |
Michael Petitti |
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Los Campesinos!: Hello Sadness (Arts & Crafts)new
A first listen to the sturdy fourth album by Welsh cadre Los Campesinos!, Hello Sadness, can be distressing. Gareth Campesinos! snarls uncomfortably naked lines; the music vacillates almost incongruously from overcharged to restrained; and the whole ordeal feels profoundly removed from the band's previous work...
Tucson Weekly |
Michael Petitti |
12-15-2011 |
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A 47-year-old band from Brazil is coming to Club Congress to promote a new album. Why should you care?
Tucson Weekly |
Thane Tierney |
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Slow Growernew
Yo La Tengo isn't afraid to let the momentum build gradually
Tucson Weekly |
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Stunning Tonto Forevernew
Looking back at one of Tucson's greatest record labels and the project that's bringing the music new life.
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
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Get Your Download Onnew
Our music critics continue their look at the best of 2012.
Tucson Weekly |
The Usual Gang of Idiots |
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When Toronto musician John O'Regan transformed himself from punk-band frontman to glam-rock diva on 2010's Special Affections, the results were a wonderful and skeletal album of electro-glam.
Tucson Weekly |
Sean Bottai |
11-15-2012 |
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