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Awash in tape hiss with a remarkable tinny sound, Guided by Voices' "Bee Thousand" showed that a pop masterpiece needs no million-dollar studio but simply great melodies, solid musicianship and a decent enough voice to carry it all through.

Will Cullen Hart formed the psychedelically experimental Circulatory System in 2000 after famed Elephant 6-ers Olivia Tremor Control announced their hiatus.

In the mid-1990s, Nuclear Power Pants would have been lucky to snag a third-string indie stage gig on selected Lollapalooza dates.

Although some small businesses ultimately lose local flavor, it is clear microbreweries in the Southeast have continued to retain their appeal to local beer drinkers.

Posted By: Amre Klimchak On the second day of ATP New York, Kutsher's Country Club, even with the overcast skies and some drizzle, lost most of the Shining -esque quality that ATPers staying in the resort so often mention and felt much more like the site of the music-centric sleep-away camp for adults that the festival purports to be, with people ...

Last week, The Apples In Stereo released a best of CD called #1 Hits Explosion .

Though deserving of other, more flattering titles, "Signal Morning" will go down as 2009's unlikeliest record.

It's been eight years since the last album from the Circulatory System, Will Cullen Hart 's good-natured collective of post- Olivia Tremor Control psychedelicists, and around three years since their last pass through New York.

It's been roughly four years since we last spoke. In certain respects it feels like an eternity ago and, I suppose, in certain respects it is.

Talking to Will Cullen Hart is like talking to a tape collage. It is sometimes hard to sort out what is medication, what is self-medication, what is Hart, what is something else.

Charter members of the lo-fi/indie mother lode Elephant 6 Collective , The Apples in Stereo formed in Denver in 1993 and -- in between assorted side projects -- have released seven full-length discs since.

It took nearly eight years to make, but Circulatory System 's breathtakingly inventive new album, Signal Morning , justifies the wait.

It took nearly eight years to make, but Circulatory System 's breathtakingly inventive new album, Signal Morning , justifies the wait.

Retro as it is -- 17 songs split into two "sides" -- this dense, complex document is an impressive display of vitality by the Athens, Georgia - "based Elephant 6 collective, as Will Cullen Hart of the late Olivia Tremor Control weds that band's bizarre breakdowns with Apples in Stereo's earnest tunefulness.

Fiery Furnaces can be the kind of band where it's hard to tell if what you're hearing is actually on the record - or if maybe the guy next door left his collection of Olivia Tremor Control psych-pop eclectica on shuffle and it's bleeding through the walls.

Enon is the trio of John Schmersal and Rick Lee and Steve Calhoon . Like groups such as Olivia Tremor Control, they're interested in exploring that wide territory between pop/rock songs and noise, employing a wealth of samples, industrial sound processing, and percussion that veers toward crockery-smashing murkiness.