Author Archives: Todd

Waiting for the Blog

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Lou Reed – I’m Waiting for My Man (from American Poet) Fuck me, I’m bad at this. I know, I know, after three-plus years of blogging you’d think I’d be past the stage of intermittently putzing out like a complete amateur, but there you have it. I’m a [...]
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Islands – Vapours

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Islands – “Heartbeat” (from Vapours) I know I linked to this article last week, but it bears repeating: More importantly, those years saw indie types paying more attention to things outside the indie world– this website’s coverage, for instance, widened significantly– and indie, in its thieving magpie way, [...]
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The Fiery Furnaces Visit the Department of Motor Vehicles

CLERK Can I help the next person in line? ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER (approaches, hands clerk a document) I’m plowing through a stir fry like it’s the last one ever Tied to my porch with chicken wire and clever When Vargas dips his fingers into my sticky rice And up floats a letter from the DMV, very [...]
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The xx – Basic Space

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] The xx – “Basic Space” (buy) This song hits the spot.
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Goings On This Weekend in St. Louis

Since when did tonight become the night that everything happens? There is so much going on in Brick City tonight and through the weekend, it’s almost enough to make up for the complete dearth of quality entertainment we’ve had since Sonic Youth experimentally jet set and trashed the riverfront back in July. So let’s dispense [...]
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Passionate Introverts: Another Post-Rockist Mix 2009

Shoegaze splintered into several different directions after its early-’90s heyday: Slowdive went ambient, Chapterhouse went dance, and bands like Seefeel always straddled the line between dream pop and experimental electronic. Most bands went belly up. At the time, it seemed like these acts were just desperate to hop aboard any trend that would help them [...]
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“Gilberta” and the return of Jumbling Towers

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Jumbling Towers – “Gilberta” (from Kanetown City Rips) I’m not exaggerating when I say that this song has been lodged in my head since I first heard it a little over a month ago. Entire albums have come and gone from my radar without as much as a [...]
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