Monthly Archives: April 2008

Record Store Day, April 19, 2008

By Scotter | Published: April 16, 2008
This Saturday is Record Store Day all over America! Actual record stores at physical locations all over the country will be holding events and hosting bands playing live music within the physical spaces of these actual record stores. Some of these record stores may be offering sales on their wares, which include plastic discs surrounded [...]
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Music (blogging) for money

By Todd | Published: April 15, 2008
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Nick Lowe – “Music for Money” (from Jesus of Cool) Surely I’m not the only one who’s noticed popular “indie” blogs busking advertisements for ringtones and NBC’s Lipstick Jungle. Blogs are big business. Or, they can be. (Not this one, obviously, because we average fewer hits per day [...]
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Dan Deacon at the Billiken Club, St. Louis

By Todd | Published: April 14, 2008
Maybe I’m just completely oblivious, but I have never noticed security at a Billiken Club show before. So when one of the periwinkle security officers started encroaching suspiciously close to where I was standing, I asked him: “Hey, what’s with all the security tonight?” (I’m extraordinarily eloquent in person, apparently.) “Huh? Oh, yeah, we’re here [...]
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Review: Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago

By Amy | Published: April 9, 2008
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Bon Iver – “For Emma” (from For Emma, Forever Ago) This is the kind of creative awakening all of us romantic, moony creative-types wish for: a retreat to the north, a burst of lightning in a field of deep meditation, a fully realized work of art borne from [...]
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Live Shows: The High Strung at Corktown Tavern; Eels at Majestic Theatre

By Scotter | Published: April 9, 2008
“Hold on to your seats,” announced the enthusiastic 50-some-year-old sound guy at Detroit’s Corktown Tavern, “’cause High Anxiety is up next!” The High Strung – “Rimbaud/Rambo” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] from Get the Guests Detroit’s The High Strung has been around for awhile, and around the country quite a few times. Singer/Lyricist/Guitarist [...]
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Review: Spiritualized, Songs in A&E

By Todd | Published: April 3, 2008
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Spiritualized – “Baby I’m Just a Fool” (from Songs in A&E – do yourself a favor and pre-order it now) I am hyperventilating as I write this. God, I am such a geek. There are very few bands that can elicit as visceral a response from me as [...]
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Klaus Dinger (1946-2008)

By Todd | Published: April 2, 2008
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Neu! – “Für Immer (Forever)” (from Neu! 2) “There were three great beats in the ’70s: Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat, James Brown’s funk, and Klaus Dinger’s Neu! beat.” –Brian Eno Klaus Dinger, one of the most inspiring drummers I’ve ever heard, died March 21, 2008. R.I.P.
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