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Yo La Tengo: "Summer Sun"
For their latest album the New Jersey indie rockers cut the distortion in favor of a smooth and relaxed jazzy sound.
Music preview: Interpol
This stylish New York foursome effectively evokes the ghost of Joy Division and other heroes of 1980s new wave. Listen in.
Yo La Tengo remixed
Listen to the Kit Clayton remix of "Danelectro 3," a track from Yo La Tengo's recent EP release "Danelectro."
Russian bullfighter blunders to victory
He gracelessly kills an angry toro -- making the Spanish crowd even angrier.
Sharps & Flats
On the scattered "Passport," Khan's musical shortcomings upstage a compelling multiple-personality crisis.
Sharps & Flats
Mogwai's migrainous wankery has absolutely no potential for popular appeal.
Gimme indie rock!
Like indie rock itself, the Matador Records birthday party with Yo La Tengo started beautifully and devolved into a self-reflexive in-joke.
Sharps & flats
Pastoral pop group Belle and Sebastian finally re-release their out-of-print debut "Tigermilk," a copy of which once sold for $1,200. The excellent disc is worth the long wait, if not the inflated auction price.
Sharps & flats
Proudly synthetic, the electronic duo 2 Lone Swordsmen prove that man is more intelligent than machine.
Chuck E. Weiss
Sharps & Flats is a weekly music review roundup in Salon Magazine
Critical Mass
Twenty Salon critics pick the year's best albums.
Home Movies by Charles Taylor: Melodrama queen
Sex, violence, passion and death come to a raging boil in Almodovar's paean to romantic kitsch.
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant
Sharps & Flats is a weekly music review roundup in Salon Magazine.
Liquor Giants
every other day at a time -- matador; something special for the kids -- blood red vinyl
Sharps and Flats: Tommy Keene
Live Flesh
Charles Taylor reviews 'Live Flesh,' directed by Pedro Almodóvar and starring Liberto Rabal and Angela Molina
Mark Eitzel
Pizzicato 5
Guided By Voices
Sharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine
Barbara Manning - "1212"
"Brighten the Corners"
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