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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Friday Fix: Daniel, Jason Croff, Sea of Japan

For our Friday Fix, I’ve decided to offer up three tracks by Detroit bands that I’ve been meaning to write about with depth for a long time. But when you really want to write something stellar about music you really, really admire and enjoy, nothing is ever really good enough, and you eventually get fed [...]
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On Singing Ben Kweller at the Top of My Lungs in my Car this Past Weekend

Remember record stores? You know, places not Borders or Best Buy that are owned by people who actually like music and employ other people who also like music? You know, employees who you get to know kind of well and who pay attention to your music purchases (because they remember you if you go there [...]
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A Drum Lesson from Tits Dungbelly

While I can in no way claim to have had anything to do with the content of the following infomercial, I also cannot deny some complicity in its making. Enjoy!
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Friday Fix: Of Montreal, Max Tundra, Pomegranates

It’s Friday. Here’s some new-ish tunage to get you ready for the weekend. Of Montreal – “First Time High” (Of Chicago Acoustic Version) (from Jon Brion Remix EP) If you only listen to Skeletal Lamping once it sounds hopelessly jarring, like a desperate cut-and-paste job filled with illogical stops and starts that were never properly [...]
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2008 Pazz & Jop Results are Pure Gravy

Hoo-whee! Willya look at that? The 2008 Village Voice Pazz & Jop results are in! This is particularly exciting news for those of you out there thinking, “You know, reading hundreds of incredibly subjective yet predictably similar ‘Best Of’ lists throughout the entire month of December never grew the least bit tedious, but what I’m [...]
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Funky Topicality

James Brown - “Funky President (People It’s Bad)” (from Make It Funky – The Big Payback: 1971-1975) Happy Inauguration Day, people.
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Merriweather Post Pavilion: Conceptual Review for a Conceptual Band

(image via) Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion has leapfrogged reviews and landed headfirst in feature-length think-piece territory. What happens when something patently “not mainstream” hits mainstream acclaim? We don’t talk about the band, we only talk about the idea of the band: Mark Richardson: With their constantly evolving sonic identity, in-your-face vocal mannerisms, and open-ended [...]
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