Fun fact about Calexico: you can buy really awesome Dia de los Muertos paper flags on their website! Fact #2: John (of the band) recently composed a film score for Taiwanese filmmaker Peter Chang's Man with a Movie Camera-esque video portrait of Tokyo, Toyko Is Dreaming, which premiered about a month ago at a film festival in England. Whoa, what's this? Another fact? YES. Here goes: Calexico is...
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Here at Tiny Mix Tapes, we got a little thing called influence. You know, that special clout. We're tastemakers, that's what we are. Not to brag or nothing, but the world of independent music spins on our collective little finger. Deerhunter would be nothing without us. Evangelista wouldn't be on their rocket ship ride to the top. And doesn't Magik Markers have a record on the Billboard Top 40?...
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One of the best things about Chicago, in addition to the endless hot dog joints, is that you can find so many entertaining and free ways to listen to music. There's a ton of $0.00 block parties during the summer that ALWAYS have bands worth watching. Then, of course, there are the free concerts at Millennium Park, and let's not forget Jazz Fest, Blues Fest, Downtown Sound, Music Without Borders...
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If you haven't already noticed, DOOM has made a big-time return this year. He dropped BORN LIKE THIS. (TMT Review) earlier this year and is set to release a compilation LP Unexpected Guests on November 10. Meanwhile, Madvillain (his collabo with Madlib) is scheduled to drop its long-awaited follow-up LP soonish and are even performing at the We The People festival (TMT News). Now word is out th...
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If royal folk-like Duchesses and Dukes need to work hard at one thing, it's drilling home the fact that they are better than you in every conceivable way. As we reported earlier, Jesse Lortz, Kimberly Morrison, and their crew of noblemen have already released a new record called Sunset/Sunrise on Hardly Art earlier this fall and are currently playing the requisite amount of West Coast supportin...
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Negotiations are currently underway in Seoul, South Korea on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), and apparently the internet chapter of this copyright treaty has leaked. And what do you know: its details are enough to make any freedom-lovin' American apoplectic with rage. Amongst the proposals are international provisions to ensure that ISPs follow “notice and takedown regimes,” th
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Evangelista (a.k.a. Carla Bozulich) has canceled a significant batch of U.S. dates due to "complications home and abroad." That's the bad news. The good news is that her latest album, Prince of Truth (TMT Review), has no such complications home or abroad, and you can look forward to hearing some of its tracks on her December dates with Thrones, which are not expected to be cancelled. 11.06.09 -...
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It has been a big year for Sonic Youth. The band's sixteenth studio album, The Eternal (TMT Review), came out this summer on their new label, Matador. In April, a song on which they collaborated with Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones was used in a new piece by the prestigious Merce Cunningham Dance Company. And — perhaps most importantly — Sonic Youth also appeared on Gossip Girl, the ultra-styli
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Hooray, there's finally a release date for that Spoon album with that single that keeps getting stuck in my head. FINALLY. Now my torment can end… on January 26, to be exact. The Transference (and therefore the previously mentioned single/title track of their last EP Got Nuffin') will be released on Merge. Never got into Spoon? You're in luck: about a month ago, the band also released digital v.
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[October 2009] This year is a big year for Minneapolis's Haunted House. Not only are they attempting to release three albums between now and next summer, but their music is taking a new direction, especially in the live setting. Indeed, it's been a long road since the band's debut as "Andrew W.K. as an Enya-inspired drunken blackout." Over the course of six months, Tiny Mix Tapes worked on an e...
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Well, it looked like the '90s were back and better than ever (depending on how you feel about the '90s) during Cypress Hill's Smoke Out Festival, where former Sublime bassist Eric Wilson and drummer Bud Gaugh played with a new singer, Rome Ramirez, under their former moniker. Although they were "thrilled to reconnect with their fans around the world," the long arm of the law wasn't feeling as m...
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Fresh off the release of his newest album in 10 (!!!) years, Grant Hart has now announced that he will be setting off on a U.S. tour in support of Hot Wax (available since October through Con D'or/MVD Audio). If you know anything about Grant Hart, then you know that Hsker D were (and are) awesome and that they had some legendarily awesome shows during their career. Let me assure you that Grant's
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As the woozy North African-core, power-folk, trance-hop, whatever-the-fuck ambient outro track of “2009” seamlessly crossfades into the global-glitch, holler-hush, Christian-grind, rock-boom-bap rave-up track that is “2010,” one thing is infinitely clear: no one knows what the fuck music sounds like anymore. Seriously. It's like a goddamn Jefferson Airplane song up in here. There's white k
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Top 6 "Famous Last Words" * 6. "Wonderful! Wonderful this death!" " William Etty, English painter (1787-1849) 5. (To a priest) "Hold your tongue! Your wretched chatter disgusts me!" " Chrtien Malesherbes, French politician (1721-1794) 4. "Die, my dear doctor? That's the last thing I shall do." " Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount of Palmerston, English politician (1784-1865) 3. "The executioner is,
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