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The Fiery Furnaces: I’m Going Away
The Fiery Furnaces’ seventh LP marks a... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsTortoise: Beacons of Ancestorship
Tortoise is one of the rare groups that defy... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsThe Fiery Furnaces are Going Away in July
The Fiery Furnaces will drop their latest studio album, I'm Going Away, via Thrill Jockey Records on July 21.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsPit Er Pat: High Time
Spacious new dispatches from far-out Chicago trioPit Er Pat's early melodies were quirky and erratic, kerplunking about like jazz without a backbone, despite Fay Davis-Jeffers' charming popstress vocals. But around 2005 the band finally nailed it, hitting a subsequent series of Thrill Jockey releases to the moon, almost literally, having reached a spacious new indie-rock frontier where musical eccentricities became boundless punctuations.... read more
Found in: ReviewsThe Sea and Cake: Car Alarm
The first rule of Chicago’s the Sea and Cake is... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsThe Fiery Furnaces: Remember
The siblings Friedberger... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsThrill Jockey compiles 15th anniversary boxset
[Above: Veteran Thrill Jockey act Tortoise] Secretly Canadian and Touch & Go had their chance to shine on us anniversary style. Now it's time for Thrill Jockey to step up in this mother and do its thing. The venerable Chicago imprint (late of NYC) is turning 15 this year, which means it's celebratory compilation time. Back when Thrill Jockey started out, 7" singles were the currency for independent labels. Cheap, quick, and easy to use, these miniature records allowed the young label to break artists like Tortoise and Freakwater in a hurry. The label might be all grown up (or... read more
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Blind Pilot - The Story I Heard
Kim Taylor - Days Like this
Gregory Alan Isakov - The Moon Song
Punch Brothers - Punch Brothers at CMJ
Anya Marina - Whatever You Like
David Bazan - Hard To Be
