July 2009, 40 Watt, Athens, Ga. The sign leading into the 40 Watt that night read “Absolutely No Photos” which is not something you see too often. Most musicians stopped
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For many musicians, writing, playing and recording music is not their full-time job. Too often (and this is certainly true in Athens) the singer in the midnight slot at Caledonia
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Since this is a tale about control, let’s start by stopping. Pull your eyes off the page and scan the horizon. Off in the distance they sit (no, wrong word,
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From the welcoming Wall of Sound wail of “French Navy,” the opening track of Camera Obscura’s excellent My Maudlin Career, I’m quickly reminded how free and lasting Phil Spector’s influence
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Ross Flournoy is a pretty smart guy. The lead singer/guitarist of The Broken West, an indie-rock band out of Los Angeles, Flournoy likes to entitle songs after archaic 16th Century
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It resounds in a rush — fuzzed out guitars crafted in big city streets, punctuated by lyrics of drug addiction and the calamity of love. The sound — unmistakable, yet