I recently got rid of all my CDs. After years of buying, trading and collecting albums, after dragging them across the country, after loading most of them onto my computer and after watching them gather dust for the last two years I finally decided to get rid of them. I sold as many as I [...]
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Black Taxi
For the first time in the history of mankind, more people now live in cities than in rural areas. For an urban planning nerd like myself, this is fascinating for so many reasons. A metropolitan city is like a giant organism itself, constantly growing and changing and adapting to its environment. Of course, the difference [...]
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CMJ 2009
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Generally speaking, I don’t like to mix business with pleasure. This is mostly because I like to give all of my attention to the task in front of me. If it’s business time, then I make sure I handle my business. Likewise, if it’s time to party, then I want to know that all of [...]
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The Sweet Serenades
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When it rains, it pours. At least that’s what it says on the side of the salt shaker, and lately I’ve found it to be pretty true. I won’t bore you with the details of my personal life, but I will say that in a matter of months I have gone from having not much [...]
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Red Wire Black Wire - “Robots & Roses”
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Artist:Red Wire Black Wire
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The brand new album from the NYC electro-pop phenoms comes out today on Tough Customer Records. The record is awash in gorgeous synthesizer riffs, dance floor ready drum beats and the band’s trademark cinematic production. The lyrics pay homage to young lust and city life. At times it is catchy pop music. At others it [...]
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Rescuecat
Have you ever come across someone so messed up drugs that just talking to them made you feel high? That happened to me the other night. It was a really strange feeling. For the first three or four minutes I thought I was the one who was acting really weird while the rest of the [...]
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The Knew
I don’t get a lot of opportunity to watch TV when it’s actually on TV. With the exception of live sports events, most of the stuff I watch is way after the fact. I have a DVR full of stand-up comedy specials and old Discovery Channel shows that I will probably never watch. If I’m [...]
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Cavalier Rose
Let’s talk about the weather. The weather is one of those things that holds universal fascination for almost everyone above the age of ten. Put two strangers in a room and even if they have absolutely nothing else in common, they will be able to discuss the weather for at least a couple of minutes [...]
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Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
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Artist:Edward Sharpe/The Magnetic Zeros
As a general rule, I hate hippies. They’re dirty, they have bad taste in music and they are often vegetarians. A hippie can talk for hours about the cosmic earth mother and the collective need for universal love without saying a single thing of substance. And god forbid you get a hippie talking about their [...]
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New Video From Red Wire Black Wire - “Compass”
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Red Wire Black Wire on tour now through October.* 7/14/09 @ Le Poisson Rouge - NYC (w/ Beautiful Small Machines)* 7/18/09 @ The Note - West Chester, PA (w/ Jealousy Curve and Fooling April)* 9/09/09 @ DC 9 - Washington, D.C.* 9/11/09 @ The Bottleneck - Lawrence, KS* 9/13/09 @ Monolith Festival - Morrison, CO [...]
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Tanya Morgan
4th of July is one of my favorite holidays, for much the same reasons I really like Halloween and New Year’s Eve. It’s mostly a party for the sake of having a party. While the 4th is ostensibly a day to honor our nation’s independence, it has long since turned into a celebration of beer, [...]
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The Courtesy Tier
Not to go and break the fourth wall or anything, but I would like to take a moment to talk about the business of writing a music blog. Most of the writers working in this field rely heavily on the PR people whose job it is to engage said writers - or bloggers, to use [...]
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The Whipsaws
A lot of the people I hang out with are passionate about traveling. These friends save up for epic months-long trips to exotic parts of the world and they come back telling tales of ancient mountain temples or jungle treks through the rain forest canopy. They convey each one of these destinations like a proud [...]
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It’s Elephant’s
There’s a program on the History Channel called “Modern Marvels.” It’s what they show in between the Hitler documentaries and all that footage of airplanes from WWII. Generally speaking, episodes of “Modern Marvels” focus on incredible feats of science or engineering - things like the combustion engine or the world’s tallest skyscraper. It’s what you [...]
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Free Energy
Here’s a list of 18 things that are great about summer:milkshakesfishinggirls in bikinisrooftop partiesbar-b-quesfireworksstrawberriesgirls in skirtscold beerfirefliesoutdoor concertsthe beachwhite nectarinesgirls in tank topstomatoes from the gardencamp firesshort sleevesthe track “Dream City” from the Philly rock band Free EnergyThis last one is probably the only item on the list that isn
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Raised By Robots
Regional pride is a funny thing. We live in a great big country and whatever corner or coast we are born into seems to imbue us with a certain way of looking at the rest of the country, if not the world. Which makes sense, of course - people tend to share the views of [...]
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Beast
Anyone who has ever watched even a few minutes of stand-up comedy knows that guys are different than girls. If I have learned anything from the shallow insights of the countless cut-rate comics I have seen on TV over the years, it is this: girls like talking about their feelings, romantic dinners by candle light [...]
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