September 2010
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Arcade Fire w/ Calexico - Caught Live
If you were at Arcade Fire’s last Winnipeg performance at the Burton Cummings Theatre in 2005, you likely pondered how the band’s growth from the auditorium to the arena would translate. After playing a slew of summer music festivals around the world, including the famed Reading Festival in England, the band has seen their fair share of mega-audiences. Arcade Fire has entered the realms of...
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Menomena - Mines (Barsuk)
Since its inventive 2003 full-length debut, I am the Fun Blame Monster!, Portland indie-rockers Menomena have built a repertoire around its distinct songwriting/recording style using a Digital Looping Recorder in which bandmates pre-record parts and then craft arrangements from files in a meticulous cut-and-paste fashion. After years of perfecting the style, the process seems to have become...
