Arctic Monkeys- R U Mine? This track just showed up out of nowhere last week, a stand-alone single that appeared on YouTube and iTunes and instantly lodged itself in my head on an endless loop. It’s full of the group’s musical and lyrical trademarks, little half-steps of ascending melody, internal rhymes and crystal-clear snapshot...
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Yuck- s/t (Fat Possum Records, released 2/15/11) A couple years back, there was a band called Cajun Dance Party. I adored them; they recorded one album of glorious shimmering brilliance, and then they split up. Their vocalist and bassist (Daniel Blumberg and Max Bloom) have now formed Yuck, and the chiming harmonics and Britpop...
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RIGHT ON
—Captain America #144 (1971) by Gary Friedrich & John Romita Sr., inked by Gray Morrow
HYDRA doesn’t stand a chance.
