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Glen Hansard, Rhythm and Repose

2012 | Label: Anti/Epitaph

There’s irony in the fact that Glen Hansard’s first solo album comes just a week after the Broadway musical Once triumphed at the Tony Awards. 2007′s film-version original of that musical, starring Hansard and the wispy Czech pianist Marketa Irgolová, brought the romantic and creative duo widespread fame. The duo, who eventually dubbed themselves The Swell Season, began recording together in 2008, but the love affair didn’t last: They announced their breakup after touring behind 2009′s Strict Joy, and Irglová married producer Tim Iseler in 2011. Hansard,… more »

Glen Hansard, Rhythm and Repose

2012 | Label: Anti/Epitaph

There’s irony in the fact that Glen Hansard’s first solo album comes just a week after the Broadway musical Once triumphed at the Tony Awards. 2007′s film-version original of that musical, starring Hansard and the wispy Czech pianist Marketa Irgolová, brought the romantic and creative duo widespread fame. The duo, who eventually dubbed themselves The Swell Season, began recording together in 2008, but the love affair didn’t last: They announced their breakup after touring behind 2009′s Strict Joy, and Irglová married producer Tim Iseler in 2011. Hansard,… more »

Mount Eerie, Clear Moon

2012 | Label: P.W. Elverum & Sun / The Orchard

Phil Elverum almost never writes a song that’s entirely its own thing. His body of work, initially as the Microphones and more recently as Mount Eerie, is full of missing twins, separated partners, self-pastiches and negative space. Clear Moon is itself a twin (he made another album, the forthcoming Ocean Roar, at the same time). It begins with “Through the Trees Pt. 2,” a sequel to a song from 2009′s Wind’s Poem. That’s followed by (different!) songs called “The Place Lives” and “The Place I Live,” both of which… more »

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Gimme Indie Rock!

By Marc Hogan, eMusic Contributor

Calling all poseurs, dilettantes and part-time punks: Check your head and check your cred at the door. From Buzzcocks to Iceage, from dream-pop to chillwave, Gimme Indie Rock gives you the sickest vibes out of the scene that can't stand to be pigeonholed. Whether Dum Dum Girls or the Strange Boys, the Field Mice or Killer Mike, James Blake or PJ Harvey, you'll hear them all here — where it's totally OK to hang the… more »

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