Sparkle and fade
Everclear – Nervous And Weird (Live) Everclear first tasted true fame and the fortune that came with record sales in the mid-1990s by convincing waves of disaffected teenagers it would be romantic to...
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Arcade Fire – We Used To Wait When I graduated from college, my friend’s mother gave me a pen, 10 monogrammed cards, and the advice that a handwritten message was the most important form of...
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Pearl Jam – Lukin …but this will have to do. [No Code.]
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The Rural Alberta Advantage – Stamp On Monday, a blizzard debilitated New York. Three-foot drifts cover the street outside my window; a desolate area of Brooklyn scheduled to be plowed eventually,...
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Okkervil River – Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe In “Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe,” Will Robinson Sheff’s lyrics saunter aimlessly around the absurd. It’s wordplay for the sole sake of wordplay,...
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Garbage – Only Happy When It Rains Soon after Garbage broke through in the United States, fire-haired frontwoman Shirley Manson mentioned to Spin that she joined a rock band for the sex. For some...
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We Have Band – How To Make Friends The cab leaves me at the corner of Union and Bond. I’m tired. I’m drunk. I’m pretty sure my friend is hanging onto the back of the car, ready to jump off and berate...
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The Strokes – Taken For A Fool What if the statement lyric on the best song off your most critical album — Dare we call it a comeback? We dare. — was a lie? “It’s so early I don’t want to wake...
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The National – Karen References to a woman named Karen wind their way through The National’s catalogue, most notably in Alligator. She shows up in “Karen” (obviously), but also “City Middle” (“Karen,...
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Pela – Waiting On The Stairs You feel the wind before you see the light. In some stations — depending on the curve of the tunnel that disappears into the darkness to your right — the white light...
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