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Really? Is That What it’s Like?
This item was in Pitchfork’s News section today: Does this seem a little weird to anyone else? Times New Viking– among the grittiest-sounding groups that fall under the "pop" descriptor– plan to spend...
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Hello Blue Roses | Glassland Gallery | 2.16.2008
"Playing live sucks," Dan Bejar joked, or sort of joked, in consolation as Sydney Vermont struggled finding the chords on her acoustic guitar in the low lighting of Glasslands Gallery. She had started...
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The Fix is In
If I had read up on Elbow‘s new album, The Seldom Seen Kid, before listening to it, I probably wouldn’t have been surprised to hear the unmistakable velvety croon of Richard Hawley coming out of my...
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Down the Stretch
I don’t know much about Horse Racing, but today’s Kentucky Derby made me think about one of my favorite reggae songs: The Pioneers‘ "Long Shot Kick De Bucket." There are apparently loads of reggae...
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Instrumentally Yours
Rock instrumentals are more than just a song without vocals, and it takes a truly good band to pull them off without the listener getting bored. Those who fall in the dance music realm probably have an...
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No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to… sing!
By now you’ve probably heard that Jack White and Alicia Keys are doing the theme song for the new Bond movie, Quantum of Solace. Disappointingly, the song is called “Another Way to Die” — presumably...
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Cats Still on Fire, Visiting Sweden
Finland's impeccably dressed Cats on Fire will always have a place in my easily-embarrassed heart as the first band to quote this blog onstage, at least while I was in the room. The band are back with...
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Get Back on the BOAT
I've got a stack of new CDs on my kitchen table that remain unlistened-to, because all I seem to be able to play is Setting the Paces, the new album by Seattle's BOAT. I became a superfan when they...
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Cats on Fire Will Never Be Your Woman, but They Will Play the West Coast and...
While we wait for Finland's Cats on Fire to make a third album, we can look forward to Dealing in Antiques, a 20-track odds-n-sods compilation from the band's eight year existence. The album is out...
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Euan the Mood for Some Younghusband?
Euan Hinshelwood plays in Emmy the Great‘s band (he’s one of two Euan’s in the band, actually, or at least he was) but makes his own music too under the name Younghusband. (I’ve written about Euan...
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