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Sarah Walker

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Sarah Walker lives in New York but has been known to hop coasts just to see a show. Her writing has appeared on fyrehaus.net. She keeps her ear to the ground and gets her mail at sarahindie@gmail.com.

Grammy noms are out. Guess which year!

Every year, the Grammy nominations are announced. And every year, I am confused/disappointed/angry. You think I would have learned my lesson. (My roommate threatened to make this a vlog, because apparently I was making horrified faces while...
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First Listen: Them Crooked Vultures, plus Zombie's greatest hits and Metro Station's Kelsey EP

Them Crooked Vultures have put their debut self-titled album up for listening a week before the release date. (You can listen here.) I am listening to this album fresh, with nothing more than that I've already been assured by the media that...
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An indie rock fan tackles the Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack

Even though they love to profess ignorance of the Twilight phenomenon, the soundtrack for New Moon has been plaguing indie fans for months. The lineup is just so good. Will we lose indie cred if we like the song Death Cab recorded for it? Do we...
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Two new albums reviewed, plus picks for tomorrow

I listened to two new albums today, as a prequel to psyching myself up to tackle the "New Moon" soundtrack tomorrow. (Twilight intimidates me, you guys.) Editors - In this Light and Upon this Evening: From the first (title) track, it...
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The Young Veins' first release brings back the 1960s

Last night, I got to attend a joint listening party for the upcoming releases from new outfit The Young Veins. My thoughts? The albums weren't introduced. They were just sort of thrown on. That made it surprisingly hard to tell which was...
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New All-American Rejects video - "I Wanna"

You can also catch up with the band at allamericanrejects.comThere's a new AAR video out. These are always joyous days. Their videos promise to be as fun as their live show, which is pretty damn fun.Like all modern music videos, this one appears...
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Sliimy makes pop music safe for everyone again

None of his promo pics include his adorable guitarist. Sometimes New York City is grimy and awful and you are trying to get through a row of dingy warehouses and remembering why you shouldn't ever wear heels in this stupid town and you listen to...
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This Is Ivy League grace Brooklyn's Union Hall, 9.18.09

This Is Ivy League's Ryland Blackinton and Alex Suarez in flight  One of the more interesting things about going to an Ivy League show is that, since bandmembers Ryland Blackinton and Alex Suarez do double duty as the guitar portion of Cobra...
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The Sounds at Roseland Ballroom, 9.17.09

It's like a real arena show! Except that it's at the Roseland Ballroom. And the place is maybe 1/3 full. Sweden's best export band, The Sounds, who I keep seeing at random one-off dates or festivals, actually have a whole complicated stage set-up...
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Three Things I Didn't Like: New Offerings from Placebo, Kasabian and Discovery

Placebo - Battle for the Sun: This album has a really simple formula: repeat the title of the song (or a witty life truism like "A heart that hurts is a heart that works") over and over again until Sarah is forced to hit 'next' or go mad...
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