Pernice Brothers: Pop in Sunlight and Shadows

Pernice Brothers' back catalogue is one of pop music's great, largely undiscovered treasures.   Founded in 1996 after the breakup of Massachusetts-based alt-country outfit Scud Mountain Boys, the group released its first album, Overcome by Happiness , in 1998.   After leaving Sub Pop and forming his own label, Ashmont Records, in 2000, lead man/songwriter Joe Pernice and his cohorts have continued to produce album after album of beautifully melancholic music, touching on love, desperation, heartbreak and forgiveness.

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Getting To Know: Sloan

Over the past fifteen years, Sloan have been the bubble-grunge “next big things” in Canada, cult heroes in Halifax, power-pop heroes to an even smaller cult in the United States, label-less, and label bosses. They've broken up, gotten back together, migrated from Halifax to Toronto, become venerable old stalwarts of the Canadian indie scene, and been featured on the cover of Chart 85,631 times (counting all covers featuring individual members).

Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes

...is just one of the many album reviews featured this month.

Manufacturing Dissent

...is just one of the many film reviews featured this month.

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