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Glam X Glam West
Kate X took in some Pop Levi and now can't shake it.
"...night at the Ale House was a twitchy, twittering, twee, peg-legged, black eye-lined ponce-fest. While not quite fey enough..."

March 16, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

SXSW Showcase Picks
Spend the evening with your favorite record label.
"...melt some faces. The international influx comes from Swedish twee-popper Loney, Dear, a further reflection of broadened aural horizons..."

March 9, 2007 Music Feature

Loney, Dear
"...haunting his parent's basement for years, cranking out rather twee recordings that share sonic wavelengths peculiar to Brian Wilson..."

March 9, 2007 Music Review by Dan Oko

The Best of Slate: A 10th Anniversary Anthology
Why fork over $13 – or $9.97, if you use the fulfillment service on Slate.com's click-through ad – to read anything that's free online?
"...more astute. Other selections prove Slate can be as twee and irrelevant as anything in the McSweeney's cosmos (Edmund..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Books Review by Marrit Ingman

SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Blurbing the pinnacle of SXSW 2006.
"...Patio Ultra-vivid Denver pop quartet Dressy Bessy curbs the twee and ups the sass factor on their 2005 LP,..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Belle & Sebastian
Record review
"...appear on this particular Life Pursuit: precisely layered folksy twee-pop, impeccable harmonies, and clean melodic lines. The brilliance resides..."

March 10, 2006 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

99 Bands
Ninety-nine local bands on Red River waiting to be heard
"...and Nation of Ulysses whispers. Ari Audrey sings only between history lessons, and with youth comes drama. Lucas Anderson,..."

July 8, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Thursday Picks
SXSW picks & sleepers
"...by songwriter Eef Barzelay, Clem Snide straddles the line between alt.country and pure pop. The Nashville-based quintet has just..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Aberfeldy
"...debut, Young Forever, Briggs and company merged the melancholy twee of Belle & Sebastian with impossibly hummable melodies that..."

March 18, 2005 Music Review by Marc Savlov

The Polysyllabic Spree
Unless you're a Hornby completist driven to paroxysms over the man's every quotidian observance, get ready to throw the book at the wall more than once: at the twee (titular) references to the Believer' brass, at a gratuitous excerpt from Great Expectations,' and at Hornby's grousing about having too few chances to read
"...book at the wall more than once: at the twee (titular) references to the Believer brass, at a gratuitous..."

March 11, 2005 Books Review by Marrit Ingman

TV Eye
Had your fill of frothy TV holiday fare? Weary of bowl games? Lost your buzz from all those holiday sweets? Well, then, 'The Territory' comes just in time.
"...re-experiences the first stages of their love affair; "Nummer Twee (Number Two) (Just Because I'm Standing Here, Doesn't Mean..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Big Books
Panel Discussions: Further consideration on comix and graphic novels
"...sometimes struggle to link them and their diverse inhabitants. Between the perfect-bound covers of one lovingly designed and self-published..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

TCB
Getting heavy with Recover, poppy with Voxtrot, and rejoicing that the AMN flap is finally over. More or less.
"...of the first U.S. labels to give the Anglo twee-pop they're so fond of a home. Then they hit..."

July 23, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

deEP end
deEP end
"...to precious, literate pop. Their debut EP falls somewhere between "name that Smiths song" and toe-tapping, Anglophiliac twee-pop perfection...."

April 9, 2004 Music Review by Michael Chamy

SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Picks & Sleepers
"...PFFR's spazztastic United We Doth, which wigs out somewhere between the Moldy Peaches and South Park. You expect something..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Blurbing SXSW 04 music – Wednesday only
"...2003 witnessed the emergence of Soul Position, a collaboration between Blueprint and RJD2 that manifested itself in the form..."

March 12, 2004 Music Feature

Beyond the Fatal Shores
SXSW's Aussie and Kiwi invasion
"...the Coolies, mistresses of primitive electro girl-punk, the lovely twee pop of Pluto, jazz saxophonist Neil Hannan, and the..."

March 5, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Sheiks of Industry
Austin record labels, part 2
"...lame name and are now trying to hide their twee roots by changing the 'O' to a skull. It..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Music Feature by Greg Beets

British Invasion
Local Cooper Mini enthusiasts rallied at the Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek this weekend in conjunction with the opening of The Italian Job.
"...few months back, but that didn't stop this wee, twee British Invasion from being aces all the way, mate...."

June 6, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

SXSW Picks and Sleepers
"...trio snaps up random slides at estate sales, writes twee little songs to match the slides, then mom Tina..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

SXSW Picks and Sleepers
Picks & Sleepers
"..."O" in Kindercore as a skull … Ain't nothing twee about the Agenda!, a fivepiece mod-core outfit out of..."

March 7, 2003 Music Feature

The Agenda!
SXSW records
"...the Panic (Kindercore) Though Kindercore made its name on twee-pop and thrift-store techno, the Agenda! proves the Athens, Ga.-based..."

March 7, 2003 Music Review by Greg Beets

The Soft Set
Texas Platters
"...Soft Set should prove an immediate sensation among Austin's twee-pop set. Their debut opens with a winner in "Meg..."

June 7, 2002 Music Review by Michael Chamy

Woozyhelmet
Texas Platters
"...in cheek, Woozyhelmet merrily traipses along the fine line between abrasive punk rock nihilism and crumpled up mash note..."

May 24, 2002 Music Review by Greg Beets

Astroblast
Texas Platters
"...of My Bloody Valentine and Lush with the sprightly twee-pop of Kitty Craft and Dressy Bessy, Astroblast manages to..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Music Review by Greg Beets

Ashley Park, Emo's Jr., Wednesday 14
"...one would hate to see the catchall appellation of "twee" applied to them. There's nothing cloying or saccharine about..."

March 16, 2001 Music Review by Greg Beets

Ignored, and Underappreciated
Ten Albums You Probably Missed
"...Martin Carr's bright, blustering, Beatles/Beach Boys/Big Star world. Shamelessly twee and remarkably textured and experimental...."

Jan. 5, 1996 Music Feature

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