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"At the end of nearly three hours of metaphysical hocus pocus destined to attract the smallest number of paying filmgoers imaginable, you don’t know whether to laugh, boo or write career eulogies for all involved."

For those who fear that the withering film review is a dying art, it isn't. To wit, The New York Observer's unrelenting pan of Cloud Atlas: All you can do while you puzzle over it like...

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<sup>tMiM Interview</sup> Jose Pasillas of Incubus

(im buy propecia online age from Remo) Jose Pasillas has developed into one of music’s most prolific drummers since picking up stick at the age of 16 online viagra in Calabasas CA. as one of the founding...

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Find of The Week Vol. 4 No. 6: Silver Snakes

At times it feels like the music well is drying up faster than any of us would want it to. The next "big thing" is a carbon copy the the previous "big thing" and the...

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Find of The Week Vol. 4 No. 5: Husky

Husky is yet another Australian band that is going to me making waves in the US market here very soon as they tour around this summer with Shearwater. The band is the first Australian band...

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Find of The Week Vol. 4 No. 4: Swear and Shake

Swear and Shake have a sound that would make one think that they hail from the deep south but you'd be far from correct. Having this type of sound come out of New York City...

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upstartsI’m not that familiar with any of the three bands in question, but this makes for an interesting story, and for some pretty damn good music, too:

While on an east coast tour in November of 2007, Conifer (Important Records) and Lesbian (Holy Mountain) drove to Richmond, Virginia arriving at 5a.m. and ended up crashing at the Sound Of Music recording studio for two nights. There to play a show with Souvenir’s Young America (Crucial Blast) at the Nara Sushi, all three bands (11 members total in one live room) entered the studio on very little sleep and recorded roughly two hours of improvised music… very loosely structured and minds somewhat altered… These sessions birthed what will be known as “Space Mountain Forever.”

That’s four new bands for the low, low price of reading one, short post. What a value!

PS it sounds a bit like these guys.

tMiM Upstarts are up-and-coming artists who tend toward more experimentation. To browse through all of the Upstarts, click here. To read a bit more about our classifications system, click here.

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