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davemadden

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Current writer for Squidsear.com and Urb.com, former writer and contributor to Splendidmagazine.com, SLUG Magazine, Yeti, IN and Salt Lake City Weekly. Will work for contact microphones.

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Mar09

New Video: CX KiDTRONiK (with 4. 5th) “She’s a Murderer” (Video)

(Photo by Kwame Brandt-Pierce)

Remember when rap videos were bold enough to include guns, heists (at gunpoint), realistic cat fights, screenshots of female killers (including one from a Goya painting and Harriet Tubman?), ample middle fingers, girls leaning over to showcase what lies below those low cut jeans and dared to feature a song with the word “murder” in the title? Videos that force you to keep a finger on the remote and an eye on the door in case your grandma walked in – where are you? (Die Antwoord, you sit down, man.)

Well that entire combination actually never realized until now…

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Nov01

Various Artists – Modeselektions Vol. I (Review)

Various Artists

Modeselektions Vol. I

Released by Monkeytown


As a person who spends too much time "searching" for new music via what’s handed out for review, I appreciate a good mixtape that will 1) catch me up on what I'm missing 2) provide old stuff that escaped me. And one and two must intrigue me to search out more from each artist.

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Sep21

Sistol – On the Bright Side (Review)

Sistol

On the Bright Side

Released by Phthalo


Sasu Ripatti’s (aka Sistol) last album, the 1999 Sistol, helped pioneer the reduction of House into dance music less focused on shuffling feet than piquing headphone interest.  Since then, he released scores of diverse records under the monikers Vladislav Delay, Luomo, Uusitalo, AGF/Delay (with his life partner Antye Greie-Fuchs) and has appeared on too many compilations to mention.  So the question for a new Sistol record is “why?” For an artist as forward-moving as Ripatti, a gear-limited, reverse engineered shift to pick up where he left off eleven ...

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Sep17

Grinderman – Grinderman 2 (Review)

Grinderman

Grinderman 2

Released by ANTI-


Packaging should represent the product; and when it doesn’t, what a drag. How often are your preconceived notions, based on the thirty-second film trailer, quashed ten minutes in when you figure out “oh, this isn’t a comedy about a quirky guy with a Real Doll”*, or “this isn’t even marginally scary”.

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Aug03

Autolux – Transit Transit (Review)

Autolux

Transit Transit

Released by TBD Records


A demi-glace is a really fancy condiment whose ingredients call for a mixture of equal parts veal stock and “brown sauce” (usually sauce espangnole).

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