The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Victim Story, a Mix CD
All the cruelty of the past seasons washed away with the new layer of snow. I thought your streak was over. I thought we could be friends.
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Posts Tagged: Modest Mouse
Albums of Our Lives: Modest Mouse’s The Lonesome Crowded West
How Isaac Brock sings it, it’s nearly cheerful, almost an anthem: I’m trying / I’m trying to / drink away the part of the day that I cannot sleep away.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: All The Time Every Minute
I lost a best friend and that means something, but you cannot deny that to go on the grief has to stop killing you, eventually.
...moreThe Rumpus Album Review: White Wilderness
John Vanderslice knows how to make music. He has been recording bands for over a decade at his San Francisco studio, Tiny Telephone. John Congleton knows how to produce music. He has mixed and mastered the likes of The Walkmen, Modest Mouse, Okkervil River, and The Mountain Goats. Both are established indie rock musicians in […]
...moreThis Month in Music: A Roundup of Shit You May Have Missed
This Month in Music is exactly what it sounds like, only by this month I really mean a subjective span of recent time, and by music, I mean music I think you should care about.
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