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The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — After the needlessly nihilistic buffoonery of Burn After Reading, the Coen brothers’ latest opus, A Serious Man, arrives with hellfire and gargantuan confidence. Like the majority of their filmography, it finds the writer-directors plumbing the e... read more »

The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — Joanna Newsom pours on the harmonies for this one, which would be almost Carole King-like if it wasn’t sung by Our Lady of Squeaking and didn’t last seven minutes. (A thought: how good would a J-News/Ryan Adams duet be?!) Stream it at Drag City. A... read more »

The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — Like the evenly cooked oatmeal in “Goldilocks and the Three Bears,” so many things about Pants Yell!’s Received Pronunciation are just right. The guitars jangle along the edge of fuzz but not to the point of stylization; the vocals are sincere and... read more »

The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — The long-awaited return of Broken Social Scene coincides with a Los Angeles date at the Henry Fonda Theater on May 3. In the meantime, 2008’s underrated Brendan Canning album should tide you over. More Album Release Dates. read more »

The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — On its previous albums, 2008’s Devotion and its 2006 self-titled debut, I dismissed Beach House as a listless Yo La Tengo, another Brooklyn-embraced duo that was all emperor, no clothes. Teen Dream the Maryland act’s third effort, is a leap forwar... read more »

The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — Watching the Grammys is like going to a dance party on the Titanic. That said, raging mindlessly against the mainstream is just as bad as following it – and since I was forced to watch the show, some brief thoughts: · Phoenix won Best Alternativ... read more »

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The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — * The National singer Matt Berninger tells Pitchfork the band’s May-due — but still unfinished — new album is “a meaner record… it’s less restrained than Boxer… there’s a lot of yelling.” Exactly what I wanted to hear! But Matt also revealed he’s... read more »

The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — Mazatlan, Mexico, December 2009. Belle & Sebastian – “Slow Grafitti”: mp3 More Photography: Camera Obscurist read more »

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The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — The answer, for a long time, has been yes — but Paste Magazine’s cover story on the subject, the best thinkpiece about the state of “indie” music 2010 you’ll read all month, probably all year, is a must-read eulogy. read more »

The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — The big story of District 9 was its bargain-basement $30 million budget, a number that astounds once the movie starts playing. Its aliens are forcefully, disgustingly real; its cinematography is effortlessly propulsive (and tack-sharp, especially... read more »

The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — Drag City has released “‘81,” apparently the first single from Joanna Newsom’s TRIPLE DISC opus Have One On Me. (Via Gorilla Vs. Bear) <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Uj7xTaZNcy8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-... read more »

The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — It appears this is it — our first listen to the new crop of Joanna Newsom songs. At one of the opening gigs of her current tour, the harpist played a full hour’s worth of material presumably slated for next month’s Have One On Me, including the 11... read more »

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The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — Echo Park newcomers LA Font play a brand of antagonistic cowpunk anchored by the I-V thump of bassist Greg Katz — former Rawkblog contributor and an extremely talented musician/DJ/producer. But the center of attention on these songs is singer Dann... read more »

The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — Tonight’s epic Radiohead setlist from their Henry Fonda gig, via LA Weekly, after the jump. L.A.’s new hometown heroes raised over $500,000 for charity. Send over your pictures/videos! Faust Arp Fake Plastic Trees Arpeggi National Anthem Nude Kar... read more »

The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — Jams: A First Look at Spoon’s 2010 AOTY frontrunner, Transference. A bootleg of one of Thom Yorke and his solo act band’s excellent L.A. performances. New Radio Dept., finally. Live: Pepper Rabbit dig in at the Bootleg Theater. Video: The Mountain... read more »

The Rawking Refuses To Stop! — You take your car to work, I’ll take my bored. (Actually, these guys have some pretty unignorable moments — “Floating Vibes,” for one — but if anyone who wants to champion this band, there’s some serious Rock and Roll you need to hear first.) *** ... read more »