Articles by Eric Hill

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  Bird Show

  Bird Show

  PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2008

  Birds got to fly. But sometimes they got to sing too. Ben Vida’s talent for intertwining rhythms and bright flights of tone made the previo...

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  Shit and Shine

  Cherry

  PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2008

  The UK’s long tradition of punk collectives seems to have gotten a new century update with this hydra-headed crew of hipster Neanderthals....

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  Shit and Shine

  Küss mich, meine Liebe

  PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2008

  Leave it to the home of Lightning Bolt and Pink and Brown to chuck Shit and Shine through the suburban basement windows of North America. T...

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  David and the Woods

  Forever Sleeping

  PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2008

  Three years on since Les Archipels de L’Océanie, a little homemade surprise that fell into my hands, and David (Dugas Dion) is still climbi...

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  Conor Oberst

  Conor Oberst

  PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2008

  With his roots as the nervous, oversensitive man/boy, Conor Oberst could have kept to basements and bedrooms and carved a recording empire...

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  Pram

  The Moving Frontier

  PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2008

  It could refer to mapmaking or the expansion of deserts, or the shrinking of great lakes. It might refer to the past’s way of slipping by u...

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  Idle Tigers

  The Spirit Salon

  PUBLISHED Jul 28, 2008

  Ross Hawkins, aside from being Idle Tigers, is a British dandy of the first order. On the 16 brief songs/stories that comprise Spirit Salon...

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  Lackthereof

  Your Anchor

  PUBLISHED Jul 28, 2008

  The sneaky thing about Danny Seim’s solo project is that it actually predates his involvement in Menomena. So is that band the side project...