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Throw all preconceived notions out the window as you step into the sleazy, dissonant, oddly compelling world of Peaches. The Canadian musician, born Merrill Nisker, has really created a sound all of her own, with the help of her trusty Roland MC505 Groovebox (she calls it MC5 for short). The machine provides the beats and effects, all of which are rather minimal and are often menacing and abrasive, sometimes totally cheesy. Peaches’ voice does the rest of the work, ranging from raw PJ Harvey-like punk angst to hard, sexually explicit almost Missy Elliot-style raps. All this makes for an eclectic sound, which features elements of rock and roll, hip hop, and electronic music, but definitely fails to qualify as any of the above.

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Starlight Mints a group of beautiful pop mutants: five oddballs whose love for archetypal pop music (the usual list: The Beach Boys, The Kinks, The Zombies, etc.) and AM radio has provided a rock-solid foundation for a whole bunch of inspired weirdness. Much of that weirdness comes out through the ample strings, samples, and synths which populate Starlight Mints’ strange songs. As vocalist/guitarist Alan Vest sings one nasal nonsense verse after another, keyboards undulate and hiccup courtesy of Marian Love Nunez — who also sings some backup vocals — while cellos and violins appear out of nowhere to offer mournful commentary on the rest of the band’s cheerful bizarro-pop. Together, drummer Andy Nunez and bassist Javier Gonzales provide the songs skeleton with bouncy rhythmic wanderings while guitarist Matt Goad goes on one peculiar distorted excursion after another. Maybe you could call it bubblegum psych. It all adds up to something very grand: one marvelous piece of orchestrated, catchy surrealism after another.

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Enon is the brainchild of former Brainiac guitarist John Schemersal. After the premature demise of that group after the death of principal songwriter and keyboardist Tim Taylor, Schemersal went into seclusion, living in a Masonic temple in Kentucky for several months and recording a four-track acoustic album under the name John Stuart Mill. Then he decided he hated Kentucky, moved to New York City, and recruited Skeleton Key’s Rick Lee and Steve Calhoon. And so it came to pass that Enon (named after a town near Schemersal’s hometown of Dayton, Ohio) was born.

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The world’s smallest and least expensive guitar amplifier, the Deluxe model Smokey Amp is made in the USA from a real recycled cigarette box that has been reinforced from the inside. £24.95 ($47)

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by MK Carroll Human anatomy is pretty amazing, but not always pretty. My interest in anatomy coupled with the Blythe dolls phenomenon somehow combined in my imagination to produce a cute, cuddly uterus doll. It’s not completely anatomically accurate. I’ve taken a few liberties with the general shape and scale, as well as leaving out the ligaments connected to the ovaries. And, of course, the human uterus is not normally bubblegum pink.

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