Anti-Festivals seem to be all the rage these days. Pitchfork Fest had its mostly word-of-mouth Bitchpork Fest with Times New Viking, Cave, Wet Hair, Bird Names, and others running a samurai sword through the well-oiled machine in the park. Now it turns out San Francisco is planning something similar in anticipation of the unholy Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, featuring Pearl Jam, Dave M...
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For somebody who specialises in the rich layered chilled out ambiance that Grouper proffer, she surely must have been disappointed to get the lead-off slot at this year's ATP Vs. The Fans Festival. The first slot on the Central Stage is basically a warm-up for the sound engineers and the distorted, ethereal sound of her recent album, Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill sounded crackly and stagnant.
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--- - |- New WaxGrouper is Portland songwriter Liz Harris, and information on her is somewhat scarce so the music will have to do the talking. Listening to her new album Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill feels like a Vicodin-induced haze. Like that time I flipped my car on the interstate and wrecked my arm and they gave me enough pills to numb a killer whale. Grouper's new album is chalk-full of ...
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"I'd Rather Follow A Tidal Wave" Last night I found out at that the Silent Barn will be hosting one helluva show this Sunday. The venerable Ridgewood, Queens DIY performance space will showcase the quiet sounds of Kria Brekkan (mum, kria & avey tare) and Portland's absolutely enchanting Grouper, whose Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill is showing up on a lot of year-end lists, and with good reason.
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I love Grouper 's Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill LP quite a little bit , and her new song "False Horizon " -- which appears on an upcoming split 7" with her friend City Center -- was apparently recorded at the same time as Dragging , which would explain why it's so perfect. City Center has this to say about Grouper's latest:"Liz's song is exclusive to this release, and (was) recorded arou...
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Grouper's Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill includes a few of this years most hauntingly beautiful tracks . Add "False Horizon" to the pile. It was recorded around the same time as Dragging , but Harris just posted it at her MySpace (via GvB ) in anticipation of its appearance on a split 7" with City Center. New Yorkers should note the tour dates while they're at her site: She's appearing at the K...
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Go into the final echelons of the free National Gallery’s free exhibits and you notice a startling transformation. After rooms of portraits, full of delicate religious figures, historical depictions and general personages of import, the paintings sudde
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Some records slip beneath nearly every radar. DiS even missed some of our writers' favourites from our end of year list (either because they hadn't been reviewed or mentioned by their peers). So, these were the eight that you and we should have been celebrating...
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| 1 Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping |
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| 2 Stuck |
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| 3 Disengaged |
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| 4 Traveling Through a Sea |
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| 5 When We Fall |
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