Each year, we’ve posted our top ten albums of the previous year. 2011 was an intriguing year. The best albums were fantastic, but it felt like their was a dearth of great new bands....
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Tags: Active Child, Adele, Apteka, Bass Drum of Death, Battles, black lips, Cerebral Ballzy, Cults, Dirty Beaches, Dum Dum Girls, EMA, Fleet Foxes, Johnny Foreigner, Libyans, Lykke Li, Night Beats, Panda Bear, Psychic Ills, rdio, Ringo Deathstarr, The Antlers, The Black Keys, The Decemberists, The Duke Spirit, The Field, The Horrors, We Are Augustines
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Back in October of 2009, we told you about a band from Chicago that merited your attention. After tearing it up at SXSW, they released a 9-song EP that was as good as any album released that year. While...
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Tags: Apteka
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I’ll admit it. We fell into the same trap that every magazine and blog on the planet did. The self-indulgent, we-know-what-you-should-like-better-than-you-do Best Albums of 2010 list. Here at TDOA headquarters, we’d like to think that we’ve given you...
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Tags: Apteka, Atari Teenage Riot, Blood Red Shoes, Boat Beam, Bolywool, Captain Polaroid, Crocodiles, Dark Horses, Einstellung, For A Minor Reflection, havalina, Heinali and Matt Finney, Las Robertas, Me You Us Them, Object, Our Anatomy, Pug Records, Shark?, Stripmall Architecture, Tears Run Rings, The Arctic Flow, The Ganjas, The Lucid Dream, The Prids, Twiggy Frostbite, Warpaint
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And so it begins. Every year, we listen to mp3′s of every band scheduled to appear at SXSW. We then present you with an A to Z preview of the bands that we think should earn your...
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Tags: And So I Watch You From Afar, Apteka, Arborea, Avi Buffalo, Best, Black Sheep, Blessure Grave, Boat Beam, Breakestra, Broadcast 2000, Music, must-see, South By Southwest, sxsw, The Boxer Rebellion
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We remember a time when Rolling Stone used to do a wrap-up issue at the end of each year with their critics top ten. Now every website on the planet (including ours!) spews out their own,...
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Tags: alberta cross, Apteka, Brad Laner, Calla, charlotte hatherley, Darker My Love, Grand Analog, home video, Jaydiohead, living things, LR Rockets, Medicine, Music, Simon Reynolds, The Big Pink, The Soft Pack
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You know that feeling when you stumble upon a great song? The thrill of discovering a great, new band? That internal battle of wanting to keep is as your own private secret versus shouting it from the tallest...
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This weeks’ collection of the best music that’s traveled past our eardrums: Apteka- Traitors (song of the year potential?) A Sunny Day In Glasgow- Close Chorus Times New Viking- Martin Luther King Day Maps- I Dream Of Crystal The...
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Tags: A Sunny Day In Glasgow, Apteka, Maps, Music, The Voices, Times New Viking
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