Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band

Japandroids Noise Finishes Pop Montreal Day Three

So it wasn't just me: the mood surrounding this year's Pop Montreal did feel slightly different. The shows were definitely more packed than usual — to the point where not getting into your favourite show seemed a likelihood — and the preconceptions about what an ideal Pop Montreal weekend were vastly changing. If you wanted to have a good time...
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Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band — Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band

From this band with an overly wordy name comes a bluesy rawk album that in more than one instance doesn't really know what it wants to be. At times the band want to be a blues-rock version of The Strokes, yet in slowdown mode the ghost of Jack White begins to seep through the fringes. The album opens briskly with "Who's Asking," a...
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Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band's self-titled album

Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band — Where The Messengers Meet

The sophomore album by this progressive blues-ish group from Seattle is probably the final musical nail in the coffins of the truly dead grunge movement that has haunted that city for so long. Where The Messengers Meet slams the point home by exploring a host of currently hip music styles.It begins with a Jack White mirroring "At Night"...
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Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band's Where The Messengers Meet

Pumping: Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band — Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band

This self-titled indie-pop effort sprinkled with shifting time signatures was a'ight, as they say. But the Seattle quintet definitely went up a notch in my books after seeing these:
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