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Web In Front (website)
Web in Front is a song by American indie rock band Archers of Loaf, originally released as a 7" single on Alias Records in 1993. It was their first release on the Alias label, and their first single from their debut album ''Icky Mettle''. The original single also included the tracks "Bathroom" and "Tatayana". Impact "Web in Front" launched ''Icky Mettle'' to high-ranking positions on the college charts, including #18 on the CMJ New Music Report Top 150. The single was played regularly on both college radio and MTV, and its music video was featured in an episode of Beavis & Butthead. Critical reception When "Web in Front" was originally released, music critics often compared it to Pavement and Superchunk. For example, Charles Aaron wrote in ''Spin'' that the song was "...a less fettered and more frolicsome rewrite of Pavement's "From Now On" (from '' Perfect Sound Forever''). ''The New York Times'' Neil Strauss described the song as frontman Eric Bachmann's "...own tongue-in-cheek ...
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Archers Of Loaf
Archers of Loaf is an American indie rock band originally formed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 1991. The group toured extensively and released four studio albums, one compilation, numerous singles and EPs, and a live album which was released after the band broke up in 1998. In 2011 the band began a reunion tour that coincided with the reissue of four of its albums by Merge Records. In July 2022, the band announced the release of their first album in nearly twenty-five years, ''Reason in Decline'', released also via Merge Records in October of the same year. History Early history (1991–1995) Singer/guitarist Eric Bachmann, guitarist Eric Johnson, bassist Matt Gentling, and drummer Mark Price, all originally from Asheville, North Carolina, formed Archers of Loaf in the early 1990s. Eric Bachmann was a saxophone major at Appalachian State University before dropping out because he "didn't want to be a high school band director." Their initial release in 1992 was a 45" single, ...
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Charles Aaron
Charles Aaron is an American music journalist and editor, formerly for '' Spin'' magazine, where he worked for 23 years. Personal Charles Aaron was born in Rockingham, North Carolina, and raised in Asheboro, North Carolina and Rome, Georgia. He attended University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, and graduated in 1985. Aaron lived in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, with his wife Tristin and son but moved to Durham, North Carolina, after leaving ''Spin'' magazine. Career After graduation in 1985, Charles Aaron began his journalism career at ''AdWeek'' and ''Sassy'' magazines. Before working full-time for ''Spin'' magazine, he freelanced as a music journalist at the magazine and for other publications like ''Rolling Stone'', ''Village Voice'', and ''Vibe''. ''Spin'', an alternative music magazine, was launched in 1985. Charles Aaron began as a contributor to ''Spin'' magazine around 1991 while the hip hop music genre was becoming popular with white audiences. In one article, h ...
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1993 Singles
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Archers Of Loaf Songs
Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In modern times, it is mainly a competitive sport and recreational activity. A person who practices archery is typically called an archer, bowman, or toxophilite. History Origins and ancient archery The oldest known evidence of the bow and arrow comes from South African sites such as Sibudu Cave, where the remains of bone and stone arrowheads have been found dating approximately 72,000 to 60,000 years ago.Backwell L, d'Errico F, Wadley L.(2008). Middle Stone Age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35:1566–1580. Backwell L, Bradfield J, Carlson KJ, Jashashvili T, Wadley L, d'Errico F.(2018). The antiquity of bow-and-arrow technology: evidence from Middle Stone Age layer ...
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Pitchfork Media
''Pitchfork'' (formerly ''Pitchfork Media'') is an American online music publication (currently owned by Condé Nast) that was launched in 1995 by writer Ryan Schreiber as an independent music blog. Schreiber started Pitchfork while working at a record store in suburban Minneapolis, and the website earned a reputation for its extensive coverage of indie rock music. It has since expanded and covers all kinds of music, including pop. Pitchfork was sold to Condé Nast in 2015, although Schreiber remained its editor-in-chief until he left the website in 2019. Initially based in Minneapolis, Pitchfork later moved to Chicago, and then Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Its offices are currently located in One World Trade Center alongside other Condé Nast publications. The site is best known for its daily output of music reviews but also regularly reviews reissues and box sets. Since 2016, it has published retrospective reviews of classics, and other albums that it had not previously reviewed ...
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Seconds Before The Accident
''Seconds Before The Accident'' is a live album by the alternative rock band Archers of Loaf released in 2000. It was the band's last release until ''Curse of the Loaf'', another live album released in 2015. Album History ''Seconds Before The Accident'' was recorded in November 1998 at the Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In the liner notes it says, "...songs selected by band based on listenability." The album was recorded during the band's final tour which supported their last studio album ''White Trash Heroes'', but was not released until two years later in 2000. It is not known if all the songs are from the same show, or in the original order played at the actual show, because the show date is not stated. Reception ''Pitchfork'' gave the album 7.0 (out of 10), stating "to fans, this will prove a fitting swansong, and excellent documentation for an experience lost to another time." Track listing # "Dead Red Eyes" # "Fabricoh" # "Vocal Shrapnel" # "Web in Front W ...
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Neil Strauss
Neil Darrow Strauss, also known by the pen names Style and Chris Powles, is an American author, journalist and ghostwriter. He is best known for his book '' The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists'', in which he describes his experiences in the seduction community in an effort to become a "pick-up artist." He is a contributing editor at ''Rolling Stone'' and also wrote regularly for ''The New York Times''. Early life and education After graduating from high school at the Latin School of Chicago in 1987, Strauss attended Vassar College, then transferred toRegrets of a pick-up artist
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The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ...
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Perfect Sound Forever (EP)
''Perfect Sound Forever'' (1991) is the third EP by American indie rock band Pavement. It was released as a 10" on Chicago's Drag City recording label. Its songs were later made available on the Drag City compilation '' Westing (by Musket & Sextant)''. Background The EP's name came from a line in Sony's 1982 advertising campaign for the first compact discs, which assured potential buyers of the ultimate in both fidelity and longevity. ''Village Voice'' writer Michaelangelo Matos noted ''Perfect Sound Forever'' and the band's 1990 EP, ''Demolition Plot J-7'', as "epochal to ... sloppy early-'90s undergrads."Matos, Michaelangelo.'My House' Is Not a Home. ''Village Voice'', March 30, 2005. Retrieved on July 19, 2021. Track listing All tracks were written by Stephen Malkmus and Scott Kannberg. # "Heckler Spray" – 1:06 # "From Now On" – 2:03 # "Angel Carver Blues/Mellow Jazz Docent" – 2:30 # "Drive-by Fader" – 0:28 # "Debris Slide" – 1:56 # "Home" – 2:23 # " Krell Vi ...
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Spin (magazine)
''Spin'' (stylized in all caps) is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. Now owned by Next Management Partners, the magazine is an online publication since it stopped issuing a print edition in 2012. History Early history ''Spin'' was established in 1985 by Bob Guccione, Jr. In August 1987, the publisher announced it would stop publishing ''Spin'', but Guccione Jr. retained control of the magazine and partnered with former MTV president David H. Horowitz to quickly revive the magazine. During this time, it was published by Camouflage Publishing with Guccione Jr. serving as president and chief executive and Horowitz as investor and chairman. In its early years, ''Spin'' was known for its narrow music coverage with an emphasis on college rock, grunge, indie rock, and the ongoing emergence of hip-hop, while virtually ignoring other genres, such as country and metal. It pointedly provided a national alternative to ''Rolling Stone's'' more e ...
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Superchunk
Superchunk is an American indie rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, consisting of singer-guitarist Mac McCaughan, guitarist Jim Wilbur, bassist Laura Ballance, and drummer Jon Wurster. Formed in 1989, they were one of the bands that helped define the Chapel Hill music scene of the 1990s. Their energetic, high-velocity style and do-it-yourself ethic is influenced by punk rock. Members McCaughan and Ballance founded the successful independent record label Merge Records in 1989 as a way to release music from Superchunk and music created by friends, which has expanded to include artists from around the world and records reaching the top of the ''Billboard'' music charts. Superchunk released a string of full-length albums and compilations throughout the 1990s. After releasing their eighth studio album in 2001, the band went into a period of reduced activity. In 2010, the band released a new studio album, ''Majesty Shredding'', and followed it up in 2013 with t ...
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Icky Mettle
''Icky Mettle'' is the first studio album recorded by the indie rock band Archers of Loaf. It was produced and engineered by Caleb Southern at Kraptone Studios in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and released by Alias Records on September 7, 1993. A deluxe reissue of the album was released by Merge Records in 2011. The album was recorded and mixed in seven days. According to Eric Bachmann, "We spent like $5,000 to make it." Reception ''Icky Mettle'' received generally positive reviews. ''Interview'' declared it the "Best Indie Rock Album of the Year". Legacy ''Icky Mettle'' ranked number 32 in ''Pitchfork''s original Top 100 Albums of the 1990s list, and ''Blender'' ranked it at number 56 in their 100 Greatest Indie-Rock Albums Ever list. In a retrospective review, ''Spin''s Mike Powell describes it as "an album of boyish fits and noisy guitar flurries. It's indie rock as hearty and art-free as oatmeal, before the line separating it from the mainstream dissolved, before it became ...
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