Category Archives: Appreciations

Take Me Round Again: The Friedbergers Cover the Friedbergers

Eleanor Friedberger – “Ray Bouvier” Matthew Friedberger – “Take Me Round Again” Songs removed by label request. Feel free to download this track instead: “Keep Me in the Dark (Eleanor Friedberger version)” (from Take Me Round Again) Well, it was a fun idea in theory. Kudos to Matt and Eleanor for following through on a [...]
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Heavenly Arms

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Lou Reed – “Heavenly Arms” (from The Blue Mask) [Audio clip: view full post to listen] El Perro del Mar – “Heavenly Arms” (from Love Is Not Pop) In an obvious sign of aging, I’m starting to appreciate The Blue Mask more than just about any other Lou [...]
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Carl Sagan (feat. Stephen Hawking) – “A Glorious Dawn”

Carl Sagan (feat. Stephen Hawking) – “A Glorious Dawn” Today marks what would be the 75th birthday of Carl Sagan, noted astronomer, agnostic, exobiologist, and turtleneck enthusiast. He’s perhaps most popularly recognized as the host of the 1980′s PBS series Cosmos, where he explored the incomprehensible complexities of the universe with a child’s sense of [...]
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“Save the World” on Blog Action Day

(To skip the speech and go right to the track, click here) When I first heard about Blog Action Day, I thought it was specifically meant to raise critical mass awareness for climate change and sustainability–a campaign to flood the internet with enough facts and insights and motivating factors to convince the web’s million users [...]
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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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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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