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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.
    By Rob Young May 1, 2003

  • Music preview: Interpol

    This stylish New York foursome effectively evokes the ghost of Joy Division and other heroes of 1980s new wave. Listen in.
    By Kevin Johannesen August 27, 2002

  • Yo La Tengo remixed

    Listen to the Kit Clayton remix of "Danelectro 3," a track from Yo La Tengo's recent EP release "Danelectro."
    February 22, 2001

  • Russian bullfighter blunders to victory

    He gracelessly kills an angry toro -- making the Spanish crowd even angrier.
    By J.A. Getzlaff April 28, 2000

  • Sharps & Flats

    On the scattered "Passport," Khan's musical shortcomings upstage a compelling multiple-personality crisis.
    By Michelle Goldberg February 1, 2000

  • Sharps & Flats

    Mogwai's migrainous wankery has absolutely no potential for popular appeal.
    By Carlene Bauer December 15, 1999

  • 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.
    By Jeff Stark October 1, 1999

  • 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.
    By Douglas Wolk July 15, 1999

  • Sharps & flats

    Proudly synthetic, the electronic duo 2 Lone Swordsmen prove that man is more intelligent than machine.
    By Amanda Nowinski July 8, 1999

  • Chuck E. Weiss

    Sharps & Flats is a weekly music review roundup in Salon Magazine
    By Seth Mnookin March 2, 1999

  • Critical Mass

    Twenty Salon critics pick the year's best albums.
    By Salon's music critics December 24, 1998

  • Home Movies by Charles Taylor: Melodrama queen

    Sex, violence, passion and death come to a raging boil in Almodovar's paean to romantic kitsch.
    By Charles Taylor July 15, 1998

  • Jimmy Page and Robert Plant

    Sharps & Flats is a weekly music review roundup in Salon Magazine.
    By John Milward May 6, 1998

  • Liquor Giants

    every other day at a time -- matador; something special for the kids -- blood red vinyl
    By Gina Arnold April 30, 1998

  • Sharps and Flats: Tommy Keene

    By Gina Arnold February 26, 1998

  • Live Flesh

    Charles Taylor reviews 'Live Flesh,' directed by Pedro Almodóvar and starring Liberto Rabal and Angela Molina
    By Charles Taylor February 20, 1998

  • Mark Eitzel

    By Jerry Dannemiller January 15, 1998

  • Pizzicato 5

    By Michelle Goldberg September 17, 1997

  • Guided By Voices

    Sharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine
    By Mark Athitakis June 19, 1997

  • Barbara Manning - "1212"

    By Stephanie Zacharek June 13, 1997

  • "Brighten the Corners"

    Sharps and Flats is a daily music review.
    By David Fenton March 17, 1997
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