Articles by Michael Barclay

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  Apartment Hunting

  Bill Robertson

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

  This is bound to be one of those movies better remembered for its soundtrack, seeing as how director Bill Robertson somehow convinced Canad...

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  East River Pipe

  Garbageheads on Endless Stun

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2003

  F.M. Cornog lives somewhere in suburban New Jersey, the Garden State. To listen to his latest album, it’s easy to picture a casual drive th...

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  Portastatic

  Autumn Was a Lark

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2003

  The DVD revolution has even influenced indie rock release schedules, it seems. After releasing Summer of the Shark, his career-best Portast...

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  Warren Zevon

  The Wind

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2003

  It’s impossible to be objective about this album once you know that Zevon recorded it while fully conscious of his impending death from lun...

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  Amy Honey

  Amy Honey

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2003

  One third of Victoria’s Clover Honey steps out for a solo record, where she strips down that band’s punk leanings for an early rock’n’roll...

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  Quasi

  Hot Shit!

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2003

  After the disappointing prog-addled The Sword of God in 2001, Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss have returned to some of the traits that made 1999...

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  Sufjan Stevens

  Greetings from Michigan, the Great Lake State

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2003

  If you believe everything you read, soft-spoken songwriter Sufjan Stevens has plans to write 50 albums about all 50 U.S. states, beginning...

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  Superchunk

  A Cup of Sand

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2003

  A two-disc collection of B-sides is obviously for fans only, but this one — the third such compilation in this band’s long and illustrious...