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[MP3] Bat For Lashes: "Daniel"
[MP3] Polly Scattergood: "Nitrogen Pink"
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After spending the last week submerged in the world of standardized test studying, I'm ready to start off the week with something strange. I happen to come across the quirky appeal I was searching for in the form of up-and-coming Essex singer/songwriter Polly Scattergood . Although her grin inducing last name means "here today, gone tomorrow", I have a growing suspicion that Ms. Scattergoo...
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[MP3] Handsome Furs: "I'm Confused"
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First impressions of Handsome Furs ' second LP Face Control : the single, "I'm Confused," is probably the only really great song on there. "Talking Hotel Arbat Blues" sounds nice, but probably because it's copping the Clash. And "Officer of Hearts" may be the only rock song to take cues from Nas' "N.Y. State Of Mind" -- it's awesome, but for that reason only. If you're looking for a sol...
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[MP3] new Antony and the Johnsons: "Aeon"
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Sometimes you hear coaches telling great baseball players to not always swing for the fences, just record a hit. The same could be applied to basketball coaches reminding their superstars it's not always about slam dunks, just simple field goals. Perhaps it's this type of mindset I've been applying to Antony and the Johnsons in regard to their forthcoming album The Crying Light . It's no ...
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[MP3] new Andrew Bird: "Tenuousness"
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With 2008 officially out the door and 2009 walking through the room shaking hands with all the cigar smoking fat cats, we can start looking at what the year has planned for the musical side of the equation. There are a bunch of new EPs and LPs planned by a slew of great artists, slowly but surely we're gonna highlight all of 'em one way or another. What better way to start off the new fisc...
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Countdown to 2009! 10..9..8..
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Tonight may be like any other night with a drink in your hand, gossip to chatter, and friends by your side. Yet tonight something different is going down, literally a giant crystal ball in Times Square, but more specifically the end of the year 2008! So now is the time we make resolutions that we'll (undoubtedly) break before Valentine's Day and sport champagne and silly eye glasses alike....
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Countdown to 2009! 10..9..8..
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Tonight may be like any other night with a drink in your hand, gossip to chatter, and friends by your side. Yet tonight something different is going down, literally a giant crystal ball in Times Square, but more specifically the end of the year 2008! So now is the time we make resolutions that we'll (undoubtedly) break before Valentine's Day and sport champagne and silly eye glasses alike....
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[MP3] In Endeavors: "You've Got Your Friends, I've Got Mine" / "Private Eye"
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I got this strange package from a publicity company in Louisville containing the contents of a band called In Endeavors , alongside a sticker on front of their CD suggesting I should spin it if I enjoy The Strokes and/or The Walkmen. If there is one thing you quickly learn about publicists and their raunchy R.I.Y.L. stickers, it's that they seem to be far more geared towards notable name dr...
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[Contest] Win a copy of Stephen Colbert's The Greatest Gift of All on DVD
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Of all the ten or so gifts I got for Christmas this year, no gift was as pleasantly unexpected as Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavillion which leaked sometime on Christmas day. Apologies to Stephen Colbert, whose holiday DVD (featuring the likes of Elvis Costello, Feist, and Willie Nelson) may have once been "the greatest gift of all", for we all know nothing is sweeter than AC's 11-...
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The Best Albums of 2008
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As Einstein famously said, "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." 2008 was caught somewhere in the spectrum of simplicity. Well, 2008 was just weird. There was an important presidential election. The economy went into hibernation. And we picked our favorite albums, twenty-five of 'em actually: Without further ado, here are The Best Albums of 2008 : M83 - Saturda...
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Thursdays and Christmas
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So guess what..? There is one week remaining until the Fatman plummets down your chimney ass first into a pile of ash and debris! Well, before he does that creepy thing where he touches his nose and shoots back out of your chimney like a white-bearded bottle rocket.. we're entitled to enjoy a few covers done in the spirit of Christmas. This week and next (i.e. Christmas Day), I'll throw up...
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Winter Break Wins!
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Woo! Finals are finally over for me; only two more classes stand between me and the piece of paper that takes four years to achieve. Now it's time to relax and have a laugh , kick up the feet for Winter Break whilst consuming copious amounts of alcohol. We're putting the finishing touches on our year-end lists (Top 25 albums first!) but until then.. let the good times roll![MP3] Harry Nil...
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[MP3] Daniel Martin Moore: "It's You" / "That'll Be The Plan"
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The first thing visible in big, bold red ink as I opened the packaged contents of Daniel Martin Moore's debut Stray Age read: You've never heard of Daniel Martin Moore, from Cold Spring, Kentucky. I had, indeed, never heard any of Moore's music (prior to last week) but Cold Spring is a mere eight-minute trip down the interstate from where I grew up. His story is as sweet and smooth as the sou...
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[Video] 'The Boy Least Likely To' Wish You A Merry Xmas
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You see, if I didn't put the band's name in quotation it would have been a grammatical catastrophe! Anyway, The Boy Least Likely To seem to have a little extra Christmas cheer to spread around this holiday season, as they've decided to release a brand new single called "The First Snowflake" - a nice little jam carrying the vibe of their color-by-number style from their debut which really, rea...
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[MP3] new A.C. Newman: "Like A Hitman, Like A Dancer"
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Carl "A.C." Newman , frontman from everyone's favorite high-class fetishistic supergroup The New Pornographers , has been fairly sheltered from his solo work since his 2004 debut The Slow Wonder . I guess he was too busy producing Shortlist-nominated albums and dominating the Billboard charts whilst keeping the company of Neko Case and Dan Bejar . It's not always easy to forgive, but given...
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[MP3] Passion Pit: "Sleepyhead (Wallpaper. Dio Remix)
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Way back in April, NYC music blog Finger on the Pulse propped up Passion Pit's "Sleepyhead" for a remix contest. It's a good thing we didn't know about this back then, because we wouldn't have had to wait as long as some for a winner to be announced. The winning submission is by Wallpaper. (the period is part of his name), whose CD T. Rex you probably didn't buy or steal last year (unless ...
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Music Alliance Pact :: December 2008
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The inaugural October month of the Music Alliance Pact was a grand introduction and it only got better with last month's November edition . If you thought that all we've been doing is preparation for finals, both academic and year end list-wise, you're in for a treat with the final Music Alliance Pact of 2008: December. MAP's creator and organizer, Jason from Scotland's The Pop Cop , has mad...
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Music Alliance Pact :: December 2008
The inaugural October month of the Music Alliance Pact was a grand introduction and it only got better with last month's November edition . If you thought that all we've been doing is preparation for finals, both academic and year end list-wise, you're in for a treat with the final Music Alliance Pact of 2008: December. MAP's creator and organizer, Jason from Scotland's The Pop Cop , has mad...
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Music Alliance Pact :: December 2008
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The inaugural October month of the Music Alliance Pact was a grand introduction and it only got better with last month's November edition . If you thought that all we've been doing is prepare for finals, both academically and year end list-wise, you're in for a treat with the final Music Alliance Pact of 2008: December. MAP's creator and organizer, Jason from Scotland's The Pop Cop , has mad...
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[Update] new Peter Bjorn & John: "Lay It Down" MP3!
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With 2008 coming to a close, Peter Bjorn & John 's contribution may have been less than memorable -- a mostly instrumental, highly strange follow-up to one of the most loved albums of 2006. Fortunately, Seaside Rock was never supposed to be a proper sophomore album, just something fun the band wanted to do. And fortunately for fans, they've already got a new album in the pipes for Spring 2009...
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