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The Post-Rockist Post-Rad Mix of ’09: Hazy, late summer jams and wobbly-kneed joints

I could have been productive this weekend, I could have been social. Instead, I wasted way too much of my time on mp3 blogs, digging through elbo.ws trying to catch up with various of-the-moment bands — bands whose careers may very well only last as long as it takes to press play on a single [...]
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Friday Fix: Mount Eerie and the music of Twin Peaks

“She’s filled with secrets. Where we’re from, the birds sing a pretty song and there’s always music in the air.” — The Man From Another Place [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Mount Eerie – “Between Two Mysteries” (from Wind’s Poem) Phil Elverum’s decision to craft an album indebted to black metal and the [...]
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Win a Titus Andronicus 12″ – Live in London!

Post-Rockist stalwarts Titus Andronicus are coming to the Firebird next Tuesday. They play an unapologetically rough and raw style of rock & roll that’s best taken in a live setting to appreciate, and as it turns out, we’ve got one copy of a live Titus Andronicus 12″ to give away to our readers. The Innocents [...]
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Desktop, Zach Curd, and free music on your computer

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Desktop – “Too Much” “Too Much” opens like the kind of mannered micro-soul slowburner you’ve probably come to associate with Junior Boys — a deep plunge of gleaming synths, percolating hi-hats, and a taut guitar note nervously ticking just under the surface. But while JB’s Begone Dull Care [...]
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The Lot Music Festival Starts and Ends Saturday

The Lot Music Festival is taking place this Saturday down in the heart of St. Louis. It’s located at the Schlafly Tap Room, so you know there’s going to be an abundance of quality brews, but there’s also going to be red hots, bar-b-que, alcoholic sno cones, Fred Bird, hoosier golf, and something called “What’s [...]
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R.I.P. Ellie Greenwich, 1940-2009

From the Los Angeles Times: Ellie Greenwich, the New York songwriter behind a string of 1960s hits that gave effervescent voice to unbridled teen romance including “Da Doo Ron Ron,” “Chapel of Love” and “Be My Baby,” many of them in collaboration with producer Phil Spector, died Wednesday of a heart attack, according to her [...]
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St. Vincent and Camera Obscura, acoustic in France, presumably to mix electric and acoustic in St. Louis

Normally I try not to be one of those bloggers who just regurgitates his spam box as a way of approximating personal taste, but this particular blast from, I think, “Grand Crew” caught my attention, and not just because it was HTML-embedded with obnoxious hypercolor neons and mostly written in an obscure European language I [...]
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