Black Mountain
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Wilderness Heart
Black Mountain are a little bit Hobbit and a little bit Orc. The Vancouver quintet play flower-brained folk and Satan-friendly hard rock to evoke that moment when the hippie dream got creepy. Their third disc is their heaviest and most concise. "Play those dead-wish chords," singer-guitarist Stephen McBean and singer Amber Webber entreat on the […]
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Radiohead, Petty Start the Party in Golden Gate Park
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SXSW Day Two Wrap-Up: Lou Reed, Vampire Weekend, Black Mountain and More
Before most bands rolled out of bed Thursday morning, Lou Reed delivered his SXSW keynote speech. Though Reed doesn't always strive to be a crowd-pleaser, he was in a surprisingly sharing mood, earning laughs with lines like "I have a B.A. in dope, but a Ph. D in soul," and by explaining how The Bourne […]
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