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Monthly Archives: January 2009
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 [...]
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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Friday Fix: Daniel, Jason Croff, Sea of Japan