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Blogging Somewhere Else
Hello friends.I'm on tour with David Bazan selling things. I'm also tour blogging.Check in here.love.Caleb
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Inside Yr Guitar
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Get in your car and head for the interstate. Pick up your friends and go somewhere. Strum furiously at the conditioned air. Dive bomb on the imaginary tremolo arm with reckless abandon. Stop for coffee at a time-loop, ghostly shell of a gas station. Get back in your car.[mp3] It Hugs Back - Unaware
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State of the Union
I vanished for 43 days. A whole bunch of you emailed and commented with pretty much two standard responses: either wondering where I was, and asking that I return to blogging, or being curiously angry and calling me an asshole. While I'm honored that you felt strongly enough about HTFAF to call me an asshole, I'd ask you to say you're sorry.Blogging is hard - harder than people realize. Quite f...
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Andrew Bird Covers Smog!
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In one of the more excited moments of my week, I came across this video from one Mr. Andrew Bird's in-store performance at our local record store here in Nashville, Grimey's, which happened earlier this week. I didn't attend the event, due to prior commitments, and now I'm really wishing I would have, as he covered one of my favorite songs in recent memory, Smog's Cold Blooded Old Times. Video ...
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AA Bondy Announces New Album
Good news for me, freshly back from vacation:In case you care about anything other than Snow Leopard and the new Macbooks, I thought you might like to know that AA Bondy will be releasing the follow-up to his spectacular American Hearts. It's called When The Devil's Loose, and it will come out September 1 of this year. The track titles and location of recording (Water Valley, Mississippi) sugge...
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R.I.P. Jay Bennett
Jay Walter Bennett died late Sunday night / early Monday morning in his Urbana, IL home. I've often very loudly made my case that Jay Bennett's presence was the best thing, and his absence the worst thing, to ever happen to Wilco. Jay was a huge part of the band's production, songwriting, and instrumentation from Being There to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. He also released several solo albums in the p...
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Casiotone for the Painfully Alone Announce Tour
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Owen Ashworth, the tall quiet dude behind Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, knows a thing or two about playing music for people in rock clubs - he does it a lot, both on this continent as well as Europe, and he's going to be doing it for a very extended period of time this summer. Some of June, and all of July will find CFTPA in a sweaty van, drinking gas station water, and sitting around doin...
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Brent Knopf of Menomena to Release Solo Record
Well, well, well. It seems those clever dudes in Menomena are constantly coming up with ways to take your hard-earned money for some songs, not that you're complaining, and this time it's in the form of a solo album. No, not from Danny Seim, or Lackthereof as you may know him, who released a solo album last year on Barsuk (and many before that on his own). No, this time it's Brent Knopf - the o...
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Awesome Judee Sill Tribute Announced
Judee Sill is a cult-hero of sorts - dead, incredibly talented, and maybe slightly unwell mentally, her music contains all the proper ingredients to make me swoon, and swoon I do. I only pretty recently got into Judee's legacy and have been trying to get the melody Jesus Was a Crossmaker out of my head ever since - un-succesfully, I might add.So imagine my glee when I found out that there is a ...
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The Tonight Show with The Decemberists
The Decemberists - friends of Barack Obama, talk good with words, excellent and advanced readers, and tonight's guests on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno - make sure you tune in as Jay's days are numbered until Conan takes over - coup style. I don't think anyone's complaining about that one.The D's also ahve some touring to do if you'd like to go pretend you're being eaten by a whale, watch John...
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Indie Rock Tacos - Brought to you by Ex-Shins Drummer
Remember when we told you about the Shins frontman James Mercer firing his longtime drummer and bassist? Well, as it turns out the drummer side of that equation - one mr. Jesse Sandoval, has already filled far more satisfying ways to fill his time - namely opening a taco truck in Portland.I'm not sure what the taco truck scene is like in Portland - the Pac. NW is not exactly a haven for south-o...
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Finish Your Collapse and Stay for Breakfast
Well - slow music day, but luckily I have an exciting tale to recall for you: on the way to get a nice Tuesday brunch this morning at our favorite eatery, we noticed a building had collapsed. Exposed steel beams and all, and half the building was now resting on an SUV and a pickup truck. Turns out it was a wreck gone awry that lead to the partial collapse of the Gallatin Rd. Hair World and Beau...
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There are Kings, There are Queens
Athens, Georgia's newest example of excellent Indie Pop, Casper & The Cookies are here just in time for summer to usher in the month of May with some new tracks. I have a huge, unashamed soft spot for bands who write sugary pop songs - SSLYBY, Beulah, The Little Ones, The Long Winters, etc, etc, I'm just a fan of feeling happy sometimes, you see, and that's never more true then when the sun sta...
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