I'm currently finishing up a project for an online graduate-level course on creativity. While the center of the course is focused on pedagogy, the overriding idea is that creative minds are uniquely designed to take known materials (and their associations) and whip them all into something most folks could never imagine possible. If I [...]
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James Petralli (White Denim) covers Stevie Wonder, Ween, White Stripes
Bowerbirds announce new tour dates – Coming to Cleveland.
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It's been a little bit since we've posted any sort of concert updates on this here blog. It's also been a couple of years since we first met Phil Moore and Beth Tacular of Bowerbirds, when they crooned a stellar set opening up for Megafaun at Beachland Tavern. For those that have followed along [...]
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I’m waking up, too…..
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I'm beginning to wake up, as well. This song is helping….
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Bloggers hibernate too.
We've been in a cave for the last three months. This is not a metaphor. Kevin and I ate a bunch of fatty foods, wandered into the woods, found an abandoned cave littered with empty PBR cans, and curled up for a quarter-year long sojourn. We shared the space with a performance art collective and [...]
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Ho, ho, ho(metapes holiday record)
It's nice to be able to accomplish three things at once. Here's what we're getting done here: 1.) Reminding you that home is where the tapes is and that charity is good. The nice people at Hometapes are offering a massive holiday album for free over at their Band Camp. It's one of those "pay [...]
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Merry Lazy Saturday, darling. Happy New Year too.
(Editor's note: (addressing "the reader," as an abstract concept) We've been together awhile, you and I. We get together less frequently than we used to, but we still catch up from time to time, pop in on each other, talk about our kids. You know what I like. I'm still working to understand what you [...]
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Been a Long Time Since I Lazy Saturday.
(Editor's Note: (Shuffling through the grocery store, bathrobe half open, staring at the milk jugs, trying to find one with a late date, I see the Internet. We haven't seen each other since high school. It's awkward.) Me: Hey there, Internet. Been a minute. How you doing? How're the kids? Internet: Fuck yourself. Me: [...]
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Show Review – Jeff Mangum – Asbury Park, New Jersey 10/3/2011
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Editor's Note: There are no pictures of Mangum's performance in this concert review, for two reasons. First, the helpful concert staff threatened confiscation of cell phones or cameras if any shots were taken. Secondly, as I'll hopefully assert in this review, pictures from this show would do an excellent job of watering down the [...]
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Megafaun – September 27 – Beachland Tavern
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Four songs into Megafaun's set at the Beachland last Tuesday, drummer Joe Westerlund climbed out from behind his kit, grabbed an acoustic guitar and stepped off the stage. The rest of Megafaun (now, with the addition of a full time bassist, a quartet) followed. They asked the crowd to get in a little closer; it [...]
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Time (in a Pink Floydian sense)
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I feel old. This video certainly doesn't help. We're going to see Megafaun at the Beachland next Tuesday. We're pretty sure that the next time they come to town, it will be to a superlarge ampitheater; this band is on the cusp of explosion. The new record is awesome. There will be a time in [...]
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It’s fun to imagine the name of a hypothetical third sibling’s band.
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It has been a minute since we last spoke. School started up for Kevin and me, which has thrown a monkeywrench in our blogosphere involvement. I'm still pursuing an advanced degree and am still someone's parent. All those things are huge time suckers. To be perfectly honest, I've listened to this more in the last [...]
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“We Always Want People To Dance” – The Diamond Doves, Brooklyn Bowl, 8/19/2011
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Editor's Note: This is the first official guest post by blogger, music-writer pal, Joy Wagner. Her Brooklyn home-base provides a good perspective from our Eastern Citizen Dick Campus, as Citizen James has been MIA, illegally hunting rhinos in the Asian Steppe. I have been in the depths of another school-year onset, and have been MIA [...]
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The continuing saga of My Morning Jacket and their role in the sad demise of the Blue Dinosaur.
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(Editor's note: I've been out of the loop for a good while. A primary reason is the recent (successful) defense of my dissertation proposal. That shit is a huge time sink. A secondary reason (although, in reality, it's of primary importance) is my continuing role as a parent. Both of these endeavors eat up free [...]
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Dick Approved – Rose Polenzani – Living in a Country
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Rose Polenzani has been floating around the interwebs for awhile now, producing two previous LPs from 2004 through 2008. Her forthcoming LP, The Rabbit, will hit the shelves on August 23, and you can pre-order it by going to her bandcamp page. All of the business aside, this track is absolutely gorgeous. Polenzani's sultry crooning [...]
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MP3 Premiere – The White Space – Stay
The White Space is a London duo that is a work in progress, according to their website. Their debut album, The Crescent Wave was written and recorded with the two founding members, Rob Vandeven and Dave Farrow; Farrow brought a backing track to Vandeven and that melting of the minds inspired this particular track, "Stay." [...]
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Dick Approved – Deptford Goth – No Man
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Merok Records is releasing the debut, four-song EP Youth II by Deptford Goth on October 17th. "No Man" is the free offering, and it's going to rock your world. Deptford Goth is the work of solo Londoner Daniel Woolhouse, and the name is appropriate – imagine traditional British stylings given a gothic, off-kilter makeover and [...]
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CD Singles Club – Flashlights – Choking
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Titusville act, Flashlights, is set to hit the ground running with their debut album, I'm Not Alone, which will be released in September through Norse Korea Tapes, the concert promotion group-turned small label. "Choking" is a loud and frenzied candy-apple red power pop jam that hit my email inbox blazing with swagger. Seriously. This stuff [...]
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CD Singles Club – A.A. Bondy – The Heart is Willing
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Continuing in my tardiness and late-to-the-game postings, I am finally getting to the Bondy track. Actually, this hit the interwebs just before I left for vacation, and I wore the proverbial grooves off the digital file with repeat plays. A.A. Bondy, perhaps, is one of our country's 1) best lyrical songwriters, and 2) most underrated [...]
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Dick Approved – Gold Beach – Diving Bell
"Diving Bell" is my new favorite song. I say this monthly, of course, but I'm full throttle on this one. An opus-like recording process sits behind Gold Beach's upcoming release, Habibti, which hits the shelves officially on September 6th. The boon for you, friends, is that this track has enough ear nutrition to fill you [...]
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Megafaun offers second to the masses – State/Meant
Leaving no stone unturned, I'm a day late in getting this new Megafaun track up on the blog. We've got fifteen RSS feeds all tied into everything Megafaun related. Phil has a kid. We hear about it. Brad gets a new throwback Laker's jersey, we're on it. That's a tad creepy really, and not at [...]
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Locating MOG account...