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annnna

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My Status

already obsessed with new Sunset Rubdown.

Member Since

over 3 years ago

Total Posts

53

Total Comments

1082

Vital Signs

  • Mogger Since

    July 11, 2006

  • Age

    18

  • I am

    a compulsive doodler.

  • Roaming Around

    San Francisco + UC Berkeley

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"Explosions in the Sky is a pretty pretentious name for fireworks."
4 months ago

Said by my friend Aaron when we went to see them last year. It kind of jolted me when he said it. For some reason, I never thought of the band name as referring to fireworks whatsoever.I was thinking about September 11 and the particular association one could make with airplanes and buildings falling out of the sky, as well as non-man-made things like stars and sunlight. The sun, exploding into...

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It's quite weird
6 months ago

when you find out a song you know quite well is actually a cover of a song from a different, semi-unrelated band in your music library.caUSE co-MOTION! is a post-punk-ish Brooklyn band that put out a full length cd last year, a collection of their singles from 2005 to 2008. One of those songs is called "Falling Again."which is actually a cover of a 1983 song by English all-girl band Marine Girl...

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Twee Revivalists.
8 months ago
  • Artist:
    The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Black Tambourine, Calvin Johnson, Los Campesinos!, Beat Happening

Recently I have been trying to absorb everything I can about 80s indie music, which someone today called "dub narcotic" music, which is definitely a label I hadn't heard of before. In trying to put together all the pieces of this past scene, it has become clear that lots of these people and bands are intertwined, and that set me about trying to fit them all together.So we begin with Los Campesi...

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