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The Slip at the Independent this weekend was siiiiiiiick. More on it later, but if they come to your town, they'll help you party down.Airplane / Primitive? oooh yeah.
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The Slip
Eisenhower
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AMG Review of Eisenhower
Cammila Albertson
All Music GuideJam band the Slip chose their 2006 release Eisenhower to show that they're capable of stepping outside the boundaries of hippie-hash college music, and maybe they shouldn't have. The disc shows the band cunningly embracing alt pop conventions almost completely one moment, and becoming lost in a quagmire of their own wanderings the next. A few tracks, like "Even Rats," leave the Slip's roots behind altogether and embrace an indie rock sound almost completely -- and with great success. A handful of others plod headlong into the group's jamming past, like the eight-minute opus "Paper Birds," a rambling monument of improvisation with barely a discernible refrain. Most of the songs on the album are built on a musical idea of melding these two genres. The group does not always achieve this hybridization very gracefully, as on "Suffocation Keep," where a perfectly nice, spacy ballad gets stretched into mopey, sad-bastard music. The formula works on the majority of the songs, however, where the jamming style brings something distinctly nonlinear to the raditional pop song format, creating something delightfully unconventional and unique. The tone of these tracks avoids silliness or kitsch -- even when singer Brad Barr careens into flying falsetto -- but it never really feels serious or self-important, either. This brand of laid-back, often danceable ock holds steady at a level of emotion that never steps within ten feet of emo; the music's expressiveness, though far from cold, lies in an intimate and cerebral space rather than a cathartic one. This sound shares a stage with everybody from Phoenix and Under the Influence of Giants to Coldplay and My Bloody Valentine. The Slip's experiment in absorbing these poppy influences is basically a success, at best providing a pensive, emotive soundtrack to a quiet day and at worst, making you want to listen to Phoenix or Coldplay.
The Slip on Conan tonight
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*The SLIP's song "Life in Disguise"* on Grey's Anatomy after George's dad dies*LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN THIS MONDAY!*The SLIP is incredibly excited to be making their live performance debut on network television this coming Monday - February 5th - when they will be playing on NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien. (The show technically airs on Tuedsday morning at 12:35am. So tune in, set your T
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The Slip on Conan
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Photography by Zack SmithRight ON! Tomorrow night The Slip will be on Conan! "Check out their website":http://www.theslip.com/ for the info...ps. last night the North Mississippi Allstars w/ Samantha Stollenwerck was pretty sweet...
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The Slip on Conan tonight
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*The SLIP's song "Life in Disguise"* on Grey's Anatomy after George's dad dies*LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN THIS MONDAY!*The SLIP is incredibly excited to be making their live performance debut on network television this coming Monday - February 5th - when they will be playing on NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien. (The show technically airs on Tuedsday morning at 12:35am. So tune in, set your T
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Gave me The Slip
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Just got back from visiting and caring for my poor Momma who slipped (no pun intended!), fell and broke her arm! During the trip (another no pun intended!) I got a chance to listen to a "Paste Podcast":http://www.pastecultureclub.com/ which featured some really fun and informative reporting from "Bonnaroo":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnaroo. The band that caught my attention was "The Slip":h...
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The Slip on Conan
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Photography by Zack SmithRight ON! Tomorrow night The Slip will be on Conan! "Check out their website":http://www.theslip.com/ for the info...ps. last night the North Mississippi Allstars w/ Samantha Stollenwerck was pretty sweet...
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Can't Get Enough...
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Indie rock about vermin.
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Sup, Mog?Today I'll unleash a bit more about me.I'm a huge gamer, and I'm a lot into VG music. A couple days ago, I bought Guitar Hero 1 & 2 in a bundle pack, along with a wireless guitar. After having experience with Frets on Fire. It's a freeware game that's essentially Guitar Hero, with the keyboard as the guitar, the first 5 F-keys as frets and Enter/Shift as the strum. No Star Power or Wha...
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