With no DRM and good bitrates, the Amazonmp3 Store is a great place to check out some new tunes. You can sample the songs and automatically import them to your preferred software.Here's my recommendations for some amazing deals:Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer $5.99Fleet Foxes Sun Giant EP $4.99Red Sparowes Aphorisms $2.97Queen A Night at the Opera $3.99Hank Williams 20 . . . Greatest Hits ...
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In case you haven't heard, the biggest concert on the net this week is a stream of Tom Waits recorded at the Fox Theater in Atlanta on July 5. The music is great, but the original Hellboy is known for his outrageous storytelling. Surf (don't click) on over to NPR's site to listen now.Glitter & Doom: Tom Waits in Concert
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One of the freshest acts of the last few years has been Cold War Kids. Like The Decemberists, Dresden Dolls, and a handful of other acts, the band mixes elements and styles of decades long past (musically, thematically, and visually) with contemporary pop and indie music.Their new album Loyalty to Loyalty will be released in late September. You can sample a new track, Something is Not Right Wit...
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Later this week, I'll be posting a list of my favorite albums of the first half of 2008 (Released prior to July 1). Here's one album that will be on the list with some of my thoughts on it:Los Campesinos! Hold On Now, Youngster (87/100)No album this year has more energy than the first full length from this band of what sounds like pre-teens. Song titles like "We Are All Accelerated Reade...
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Earlier on G4, the E3 coverage team (i.e. every on-screen personality on the channel), asked who won E3. My instant reaction (and poll-winner) was Microsoft. They did debut Netflix (which I was looking forward to on PS3), announced Final Fantasy XIII will be on Xbox (if anything), and showed off their avatars.But to say that Microsoft was "Best in Show" was highly misleading. Neither Microsoft,...
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Circa 2001. I'm working at a regional music chain in Jackson, TN. This is both the best and worst job I've ever had. My musical vocabulary and frame of reference increases ten fold in the year or so I spend there, and I meet many people who positively influence my knowledge and taste. I also encounter countless "morons" who grate my nerves with their questionable taste and inane questions. Wo...
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I won't bore you gushing about The Otto Modest, something I've done to almost a fault in other media. They're a band I've been familiar with for over three years, along with developing friendships with a couple members (Lead singer Josh Evans even played at my wedding). I've discovered it's harder and harder to be objective when it comes to them.Nevertheless, I feel they're a band that people s...
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I won't bore you gushing about The Otto Modest, something I've done to almost a fault in other media. They're a band I've been familiar with for over three years, along with developing friendships with a couple members (Lead singer Josh Evans even played at my wedding). I've discovered it's harder and harder to be objective when it comes to them.Nevertheless, I feel they're a band that people s...
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It's rare that I find a music writer I can name drop, but William Bowers (not to be confused with the late Western-film writer) has become an elite member of the club. Besides writing for various zines and mags, his "Puritan Blister" columns on Pitchfork have become a warm center of meta-postmodern critique among the trivial news and overwrought reviews (not that PF is bad). I'm currently enamo...
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The second Damned series, Prodigal Sons, should be on the shelves March 19 from Oni Press. Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt (Hard Time, Queen and Country) handle creative duties again. I really enjoyed the first series, which followed Eddie, a classic noir protagonist who can return from the dead when someone touches his body, as he navigates his way through and underworld of organized crime and dem...
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1. LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver2. Amy Winehouse Back to Black3. M.I.A. Kala4. Muscles Guns Babes Lemonade5. Kalxons Myths of Near Future6. Liars Liars7. Radiohead In Rainbows8. Justice †9. !!! Myth Takes10. Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga11. Arcade Fire Neon Bible12. Feist The Reminder13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs Is Is14. Of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?15. Scout Niblett This Fool Can Die Now16.
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I've been away for much to long. Plans for another netcast are still in the works (mainly for my own enjoyment) and I hope to get back to posting regularly.Today I've got a couple videos for ya. The first is hot of the presses from Zach "Late World" Galifianakis. That's Will Oldham (Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Palace) in the hot shorts. This short, which takes a long time to load, is pretty amazingl...
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