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Features

2004: Punk Snot Is Dead, Disco Popes Crap Out, Yay by Ben Donnelly


Ben Donnelly enjoys a good guitar - as long as it's plugged in...and turned up to at least 7.

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2008: Ben Donnelly


Dusted’s Ben Donnelly makes a memorial to the Muxtape featuring his favorite songs of 2008.

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2009: Ben Donnelly


Dusted writer Ben Donnelly recalls his favorite nightmares and dreams from the past year, and offers two mixes to back them up.

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Bad Ideas Beautifully Realized (Ben Donnelly)


In 2006, Ben Donnelly learned how to stop worrying and love the flaw.

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Drag to iTunes:
33 Hours of SXSW for the Rest of Us


Dusted's Ben Donnelly recaps South By Southwest without ever leaving his house.

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Emphysema Speaks: An Interview with Erin Sullivan of the A Frames


Dusted's Ben Donnelly speaks with Erin Sullivan of the A Frames.

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Old Guys Keep Gettin' It


Ben Donnelly waxes about his favorite recordings from 2007, and one from 2006.

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Reviews


Artist: A Frames

Album: Black Forest

Label: Sub Pop

Review date: Apr. 7, 2005

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Artist: A Place to Bury Strangers

Album: Exploding Head

Label: Mute

Review date: Sep. 29, 2009

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Artist: Barry Adamson

Album: Back to the Cat

Label: Central Control

Review date: May. 7, 2008

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Artist: Adult.

Album: Why Bother?

Label: Thrill Jockey

Review date: Mar. 13, 2007

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Artist: Adult.

Album: D.U.M.E.

Label: Thrill Jockey

Review date: May. 4, 2005

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Artist: AFCGT

Album: AFCGT

Label: Sub Pop

Review date: Jan. 25, 2010

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Artist: Amon Amarth

Album: Twilight of the Thunder God

Label: Metal Blade

Review date: Nov. 3, 2008

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Artist: Antifamily

Album: Antifamily

Label: Difficult Fun

Review date: Dec. 4, 2008

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Artist: Baroness

Album: Blue Record

Label: Relapse

Review date: Oct. 12, 2009

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Artist: Battleship

Album: Hearts Addendum

Label: On/On Switch

Review date: Oct. 9, 2006

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Artist: Be Your Own Pet

Album: Get Awkward

Label: Ecstatic Peace!

Review date: Mar. 26, 2008

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Artist: Black Lips

Album: Los Valientes del Mundo Neuvo

Label: Vice

Review date: Apr. 11, 2007

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Artist: Harlan T. Bobo

Album: I'm Your Man

Label: Goner

Review date: Oct. 22, 2007

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Artist: The Busy Signals

Album: The Busy Signals

Label: Dirtnap

Review date: Dec. 5, 2007

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Artist: The Casual Dots

Album: The Casual Dots

Label: Kill Rock Stars

Review date: Jun. 9, 2004

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Artist: The Cave Singers

Album: Invitation Songs

Label: Matador

Review date: Jan. 16, 2008

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Artist: Celebration

Album: The Modern Tribe

Label: 4AD

Review date: Mar. 28, 2008

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Artist: The Chrome Cranks

Album: Diabolical Boogie

Label: Atavistic

Review date: Jan. 30, 2007

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Artist: Clinic

Album: Visitations

Label: Domino

Review date: Jan. 24, 2007

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Artist: Coachwhips

Album: Peanut Butter & Jelly - Live at the Ginger Minge

Label: Narnack

Review date: Feb. 3, 2005

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Artist: Coachwhips

Album: Double Death

Label: Narnack

Review date: Jul. 18, 2006

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Artist: Dark Meat

Album: Truce Opium

Label: Emergency Umbrella

Review date: Nov. 19, 2009

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Artist: The Dickies

Album: Stukas Over Disneyland

Label: Overground

Review date: Apr. 19, 2005

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Artist: Die Princess Die

Album: Lions Eat Lions

Label: GSL

Review date: Oct. 15, 2006

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Artist: Dirty Faces

Album: Get Right With God

Label: Brah

Review date: Nov. 6, 2006

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Artist: The Dishes

Album: 3

Label: File 13

Review date: Dec. 17, 2003

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Artist: Distance

Album: Repercussions

Label: Planet Mu

Review date: Jan. 22, 2009

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Artist: DMZ

Album: DMZ

Label: Sepia Tone

Review date: May. 3, 2004

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Artist: The Dwarves / Armitage Shanks

Album: The Dwarves Must Die / Urinal Heap

Label: Sympathy for the Record Industry / Damaged Goods

Review date: Nov. 17, 2004

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Artist: Eddy Current Suppression Ring

Album: Eddy Current Supression Ring / Primary Colors

Label: Melodic

Review date: Aug. 18, 2009

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Artist: The Elastik Band

Album: The Elastik Band

Label: Digital Cellars

Review date: May. 25, 2007

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Artist: The Entrance Band

Album: The Entrance Band

Label: Ecstatic Peace!

Review date: Aug. 31, 2009

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Artist: Epsilons

Album: Epsilons

Label: Retard Disco

Review date: Jul. 26, 2006

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Artist: The Everyothers

Album: Pink Sticky Lies

Label: Kill Rock Stars

Review date: Jul. 1, 2006

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Artist: The Fall

Album: Imperial Wax Solvent

Label: Sanctuary

Review date: May. 16, 2008

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Artist: Fever Ray

Album: Fever Ray

Label: Mute

Review date: Mar. 12, 2009

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Artist: Final Solutions

Album: Songs by Solutions

Label: Goner

Review date: Nov. 8, 2007

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Artist: Flat Duo Jets

Album: Two Headed Cow

Label: Chicken Ranch

Review date: Feb. 22, 2008

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Artist: The Flesh Eaters

Album: Hard Road To Follow

Label: Atavistic

Review date: Mar. 10, 2005

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Artist: Future of the Left

Album: Travels with Myself and Another

Label: 4AD

Review date: Jul. 22, 2009

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Artist: The Go! Team

Album: Thunder Lightning Strike

Label: Memphis Industries

Review date: Oct. 7, 2004

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Artist: Gogol Bordello

Album: Gypsy Punks

Label: Side One Dummy

Review date: Sep. 27, 2005

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Artist: Gossip

Album: Music for Men

Label: Columbia

Review date: Jun. 24, 2009

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Artist: Gossip

Album: Standing in the Way of Control

Label: Kill Rock Stars

Review date: Feb. 19, 2006

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Artist: Hanna Hirsch

Album: Tala Svart

Label: Release The Bats

Review date: Feb. 4, 2009

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Artist: High on Fire

Album: Death Is This Communion

Label: Relapse

Review date: Sep. 27, 2007

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Artist: Clutchy Hopkins meets Lord Kenjamin

Album: Music is My Medicine

Label: Ubiquity

Review date: Jun. 17, 2009

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Artist: Howlin Rain

Album: Magnificent Fiend

Label: American

Review date: Mar. 4, 2008

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Artist: The Hunches

Album: Exit Dreams

Label: In the Red

Review date: Jan. 21, 2009

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Artist: Impediments / Ty Segall

Album: Impediments / Lemons

Label: Happy Parts / Goner

Review date: Oct. 23, 2009

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Artist: The Intelligence

Album: Deuteronomy

Label: In the Red

Review date: Jun. 30, 2008

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Artist: Jay Reatard

Album: Singles 06-07

Label: In the Red

Review date: Jul. 2, 2008

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Artist: Jay Reatard

Album: Blood Visions

Label: In the Red

Review date: Feb. 22, 2007

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Artist: John Wilkes Booze

Album: Five Pillars of Soul

Label: Kill Rock Stars

Review date: May. 24, 2004

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Artist: Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds

Album: Dracula Boots

Label: In the Red

Review date: Jun. 2, 2009

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Artist: The Kills

Album: Midnight Boom

Label: Domino

Review date: Mar. 14, 2008

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Artist: King Kong

Album: Buncha Beans

Label: Drag City

Review date: May. 14, 2007

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Artist: KIT

Album: Broken Voyage

Label: Upset the Rhythm

Review date: Oct. 30, 2007

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Artist: Lamps

Album: Lamps

Label: In the Red

Review date: Nov. 23, 2007

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Artist: Th' Legendary Shack*Shakers

Album: Believe

Label: Yep Roc

Review date: Jan. 18, 2005

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Artist: Les Georges Leningrad

Album: Sangue Puro

Label: Tomlab

Review date: Sep. 24, 2006

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Artist: Liars

Album: They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Label: Mute

Review date: Feb. 25, 2004

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Artist: The Long Blondes

Album: Couples

Label: Rough Trade

Review date: May. 6, 2008

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Artist: The Long Blondes

Album: Someone to Drive You Home

Label: Rough Trade / World's Fair

Review date: Jun. 8, 2007

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Artist: Made Out Of Babies

Album: The Ruiner

Label: The End

Review date: Jul. 23, 2008

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Artist: Man Man

Album: The Man in a Blue Turban With a Face

Label: Ace Fu

Review date: Jan. 12, 2005

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Artist: Eugene McGuinness

Album: Eugene McGuinness

Label: Domino

Review date: May. 15, 2009

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Artist: The Moaners

Album: Dark Snack

Label: Yep Roc

Review date: Feb. 27, 2005

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Artist: The Mystery Girls

Album: Something in the Water

Label: In the Red

Review date: Jul. 25, 2004

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Artist: Nisennenmondai

Album: Destination Tokyo

Label: Smalltown Superjazz

Review date: Aug. 28, 2009

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Artist: Thee Oh Sees

Album: Help

Label: In the Red

Review date: Apr. 27, 2009

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Artist: Part Chimp

Album: Cup

Label: Monitor

Review date: Aug. 3, 2007

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Artist: Pere Ubu

Album: One Man Drives While The Other Man Screams

Label: Hearpen

Review date: Sep. 23, 2004

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Artist: Pissed Jeans

Album: King of Jeans

Label: Sub Pop

Review date: Aug. 6, 2009

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Artist: Pterodactyl

Album: Pterodactyl

Label: Brah

Review date: Mar. 30, 2007

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Artist: Pterodactyl

Album: Worldwild

Label: Brah

Review date: May. 29, 2009

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Artist: Reigning Sound

Album: Too Much Guitar

Label: In the Red

Review date: Jul. 20, 2004

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Artist: The Replacements

Album: Tim / Pleased to Meet Me / Don’t Tell a Soul / All Shook Down

Label: Rhino

Review date: Oct. 13, 2008

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Artist: The Reverend Horton Heat / Dexter Romweber

Album: Revival / Blues That Defies My Soul

Label: Yep Roc

Review date: Aug. 25, 2004

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Artist: Rocket From the Tombs

Album: Rocket Redux

Label: Smog Veil

Review date: Mar. 17, 2004

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Artist: Dex Romweber Duo

Album: Ruins of Berlin

Label: Bloodshot

Review date: Feb. 24, 2009

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Artist: The Sadies

Album: Tales of Rat Fink

Label: Yep Roc

Review date: Nov. 5, 2006

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Artist: Shackleton

Album: Three EPs

Label: Perlon

Review date: Oct. 20, 2009

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Artist: The Singing Loins

Album: The Complete and Utter

Label: Damaged Goods

Review date: Jan. 12, 2005

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Artist: Subway

Album: Subway II

Label: Soul Jazz

Review date: Jul. 30, 2009

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Artist: The Sword

Album: Gods of the Earth

Label: Kemado

Review date: Apr. 21, 2008

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Artist: Tallboys

Album: Scallywag Tag

Label: Jak Attak

Review date: Apr. 8, 2004

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Artist: The Trashies

Album: What Makes a Man Get Trashed?

Label: Mortville

Review date: Aug. 21, 2007

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Artist: V/A

Album: 5: Five Years of Hyperdub

Label: Hyperdub

Review date: Nov. 18, 2009

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Artist: V/A

Album: D-I-Y: The Rise of the Independent Music Industry After Punk

Label: Soul Jazz

Review date: Jul. 19, 2007

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Artist: V/A

Album: Dr. Boogie presents 26 Deranged and Smokin’ Cool Cats

Label: Sub Rosa

Review date: Jun. 10, 2009

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Artist: Various

Album: Various Versus

Label: Various

Review date: Sep. 9, 2008

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Artist: The Veils

Album: Sun Gangs

Label: Rough Trade

Review date: Apr. 10, 2009

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Artist: Veronica Lipgloss and The Evil Eyes

Album: The Witch's Dagger

Label: GSL

Review date: Dec. 7, 2005

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Artist: Von Spar

Album: Von Spar

Label: Tomlab

Review date: Jul. 11, 2007

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Artist: Weird Owl

Album: Ever the Silver Cord be Loosed

Label: Tee Pee

Review date: Feb. 13, 2009

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Artist: The White Stripes

Album: Icky Thump

Label: Warner Brothers

Review date: Jun. 18, 2007

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Artist: Wire

Album: Read & Burn 03

Label: Pink Flag

Review date: Dec. 3, 2007

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Artist: Young Marble Giants

Album: Colossal Youth & Collected Works

Label: Domino

Review date: Sep. 11, 2007

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