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SWITCH TO WORDPRESS
BACK from the dead
I was away for 3 weeks and I've spent the last one trying to figure out some domain stuff and debating whether or not to switch to WordPress. I'll keep you posted.
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LIVE: Wilco w/ Conor Oberst
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LINK TO BYTWilco's been my number one favorite band for almost two years now, so I've done all the standard obsessive-fan stuff. I've seen their documentaries, I own hard copies of all their music, I stalk the website, I have multiple live recordings (which I compare and contrast endlessly). My iTunes play count tells me they're my most-listened artist in my library. I've only seen them once...
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LIVE: Passion Pit w/ The Harlem Shakes @ Black Cat, 6/9
When this show ended last night at 11:25, less than an hour after Passion Pit started playing, I felt both awesome and sort of bad.First the awesome parts… I missed Cale Parks, but I saw a bunch of people buying his merch, so I’ll assume he was awesome. Go Cale Parks! Next were the Harlem Shakes, who were fantastic and wonderful and adorable. Their music is so fun and bouncy, it was a great
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Mandy Moore Makes a Comeback
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In her teen-pop heyday, I was never a big Mandy Moore fan. To me, she was just a more boring Jessica Simpson. She sang songs really dull love songs and her voice wasn't anything spectacular. However, I did like a lot of the movies she was in (A Walk to Remember, The Princess Diaries, Saved...)But then something changed. A few years ago, Moore started dating Zach Braff, and then singer-songw...
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New Mixtape: Something in the Air
I've been working on a new mixtape for a while, the theme for which is movie couples/crushes. It's called Something in the Air, and here it is. Along with a picture of Joel and Clementine from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, one of my favorite movie couples of all time. For a free physical copy, complete with cover art, shoot me an email.
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Album Review: St. Vincent- Actor
A few weeks ago I met Annie Clark, the waifish, bright-eyed chanteuse behind St. Vincent, outside of a record store in Georgia. She was there with some family, who were laughing and pointing at the record cover for her new album "Actor," which is essentially a huge picture of her face, in the window, and urging her to go in and buy a copy.The cover of "Actor" can speak to the music as well. C...
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New Comet Gain- "Broken Record Prayers"
One of my biggest pet peeves is when someone talks during a song. It's supposed to seem really serious and meaningful, but to me it's just annoying. In the middle of M83's "Graveyard Girl," one of my favorite songs last summer, a girl starts talking about how the graveyard is her home or something and those few seconds almost made me hate the song. Luckily the rest is so John Hughes-y awesom...
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Love is a Mixtape
I have a LOT of playlists on my iTunes. I have a few Smart Playlists, made up of my most recent singles and another of my most recent albums, and then a third which is a combination of the two. Then I also have a few "best of" mixes to showcase the good cuts off of new albums. Plus I have quite a few "car mixes" which are different from regular mixes in that there is no mood or order- just a...
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Excuses, Excuses
The reason I've been posting way less lately is that school has been crazy for the past few weeks. Not to worry, I'll be back in full force soon.
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Bruce Springsteen LIVE at the Verizon Center- 5/18/09
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I know this review is almost a week late, but whatever...The morning after Bruce Springsteen's killer performance at the Super Bowl, my friend Jenna and I ran to the newspaper room at school, logged on to a computer, and bought tickets to see his show at the Verizon Center at precisely 10:00AM. I was on the phone with my dad, who was at home, and had instructions to do the same thing, and we c...
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Summer Concert Schedule
I've got a really fun summer lined up with cool internships and a job for three weeks at my favorite place in the world, a camp in Pennsylvania. In addition, I am seeing quite a few concerts. Here's the list so far...June 8|| The Decemberists w/ Andrew BirdJune 9|| TV on the Radio w/ the Dirty ProjectorsJune 11|| Taylor SwiftJuly 8|| Wilco w/ Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley BandJuly 11|| Bug...
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A Plethora of MGMT Covers
You know how every year there are a few songs that EVERYBODY feels the need to cover? In the past, such songs have included Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" and Rihanna's "Umbrella." Lately, I've been seeing a lot of MGMT covers. Even though "Oracular Spectacular" has been out for over a year, it's only recently started to hit the mainstream. Thus, Katy Perry and Weezer have felt inclined to put th...
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New Live Coldplay- LeftRightLeftRightLeft
Coldplay just kicked off yet another tour, signifying the third Viva La Vida tour I have not been able to attend. I have a theory that the bands hates me. For last summer's tour, I was able to go, but then they rescheduled to the day after I left to work in PA. For their fall tour, the show was the night before I had to take the SAT. This time around, it's on a Thursday night the same week ...
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Passion Pit vs. MGMT
While MGMT's "Oracular Spectacular" was one of the best reviewed albums last year, but looking back, I'm not sure if it deserved all of the praise. "Kids," "Time to Pretend," and "Electric Feel" were all awesome songs (I'd put "Kids" as one of the Top 10 of 2008), but as a whole, the album was a bit spotty. I think that if some tracks were looked at in a test tube, completely separated from t...
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Adventures in Atlanta
My sister graduated from college last weekend, so my family went down to Atlanta. Here's my weekend in music:Most listened album: Only Way To Be Alone- Good Old War (runner-up: It's Blitz!- Yeah Yeah Yeahs)Most listened song: Hysteric- Yeah Yeah Yeahs (runner-up: Glad Girls- Guided By Voices)Songs heard performed by an a capella group: I think about 8, including Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," C...
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SAVE PASTE
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One of my favorite music magazines, Paste, is lacking in funds. I've been a subscriber for a few years now and I would say that of all the magazines I read, Paste most closely follows my music taste.SO. Donate now, and help save this great magazine! No matter how much you donate, you get entered in contests to win sweet stuff and you get 70 free, unreleased or rare MP3's from artists such as...
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Stream Wilco (the album)!!!!!!!
TODAY IS A GREAT DAY.STREAM IT NOW.
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Access Hollywood
My school's talent show is a really big deal. The school and crew spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on lighting and sound equipment. This trend began in 2004, when senior Andrew Maury, the director (the entire production is student-run), decided to make the best show ever. His theme was "I Want My MTV,” and the three-night sell-out show blew everybody away. Since then, “I Want My MTV
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TWO WEEK HIATUS
see ya soon.
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