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Beat Konducta Vol. 5-6
Fri: 03-06-09
The Law of the Playground
Thu: 03-05-09
Wavvves
Wed: 03-04-09
Middle Cyclone
Tue: 03-03-09
No Line on the Horizon
Mon: 03-02-09
Super Roots 10
Fri: 02-27-09

Best New Music

Wavvves
Wed: 03-04-09

Wavves:
Wavvves

[Fat Possum; 2009]
Rating: 8.1

One-man noise-pop project Nathan Williams has quickly moved from homemade cassettes to online buzz, and he delivers on his first widely released LP, which recalls No Age's basement punk but feels more insular, self-contained, and unsettling.

Dark Was the Night
Thu: 02-26-09

Various Artists:
Dark Was the Night

[4AD; 2009]
Rating: 8.6

Red Hot's latest all-star charity comp features 31 new and exclusive songs from Arcade Fire, Spoon, David Byrne, My Morning Jacket, Feist, Ben Gibbard, the Decemberists, Conor Oberst,Stuart Murdoch, Yo La Tengo, the New Pornographers, Cat Power, Antony, Bon Iver, and members of Sigur Rós, among many others. Yes, it's good.