You can't sleep. The day has been long and your body is tired, but rest will not relieve you anytime soon. Beautiful, terrible visions have seized your mind. The images are familiar; you've seen them before dozens, perhaps hundreds of times. Those bedroom eyes. That cresting coif of chestnut perfection. This song. But why must they torment you now? What is to blame for this glorious torture? An...
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Sic Alps have been a pretty busy band these last couple years, releasing a double-LP comp on Drag City, a 7-inch on Slumberland, an LP on Siltbreeze, and 7-inches on Woodsist and Important. The prolificacy doesn't end with the physical releases, as they've been touring the U.S. and Europe constantly. So is it in any way doubtful that they are doing two tours in the next two months? No way!! Wes...
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LA-based Dum Dum Girls have been picked up by the venerable Sub Pop label. (No, not that kind of picked up, hayyyyyo!!!) The brainchild of a lady known only as Dee Dee, Dum Dum Girls make dark, hazy, lo-fi garage. So far Dum Dum Girls have releases through Captured Tracks, Hozac, and Zoo Music. Dee Dee has also collaborated with some Blank Dogs peeps via their project The Mayfair Set. Dum Dum G...
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Compiled by: mgmc If your tastes are so superior, make us some damn tapes already. 01. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - "Hold On" (Plastic Fang) 02. The Clash - "London Calling" (London Calling) 03. The Doors - "Peace Frog" (Morrison Hotel) 04. Jimi Hendrix - "Crosstown Traffic" (Electric Ladyland) 05. Whale - "Hobo Humping Slobo Babe" (We Care) 06. Johnny Cash - "Hurt (N.I.N. Cover)" (American IV...
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Many singer-songwriters go through different stages throughout their careers due to mood changes or focus shifts: Daniel Johnston stopped writing songs about Laura; Bill Callahan changed his voice, changed his name, and changed his name again; and Cat Power (as well as the previous mentioned artists) got slicker recordings, slicker backup musicians, and started heading away from her sad and lon...
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From City Pages: Bruce C. Allen, best known as the guitarist for local rock band the Suburbs and as a graphic designer responsible for iconic images like the logo for Twin/Tone records and the album art for the Replacements' Let it Be, will be taken off life support this evening at the age of 54. Friends close to Allen say that he had been struggling with health issues for many years, including...
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Apple Inc., a 33-year-old computer software and consumer electronics corporation, has agreed to purchase Lala, a four-year old music-distribution start-up. Presently, Lala offers a service that allows users to either download a song, or pay a small fraction of the download price to stream the song an unlimited number of times. Users can also upload their preexisting music collection to Lala's s...
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From The Irish Examiner: LEGENDARY folk singer Liam Clancy, once described by Bob Dylan as the "greatest ballad singer" he ever heard, died yesterday at the age of 74. Mr Clancy, who found fame as a member of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, died in the Bon Secours Hospital in Cork after a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis. His brother Bobby died of the same disease in 2002. Liam, who is ...
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Ever since Animal Collective decided to turn into the underground (relatively speaking) version of a Boy Band, it's been pretty clear that, sooner or later, their very own 21st-century version of A Hard Day's Night would be upon us. Screaming girls, campy acting jobs, plot-shirking camera mugging, bloated musical montages crammed into scene after scene sporting goofy variable frame rate effects, e
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[December 2009] (MP3 DOWNLOAD) - (PODCAST) Frank Zappa posed the question, and provided the answer. Does humor belong in music? Obviously, I think so, and after you hear this absurd and occasionally surreal mix, there is a reasonable chance you will too. Granted, this mix is not exactly a face-melting music tour-de-force from start to finish, but that is also part of the point. If not a life-ch...
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Compiled by: Dontdomelikethat Disregard Females, Acquire Currency 01. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - "Don't Do Me Like That" (Damn the Torpedoes) 02. Pavement - "Box Elder" (Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe) 03. Born Ruffians - "Badonka Donkey" (Red, Yellow, Blue) 04. Daniel Johnston - "Favorite Darling Girl" (Rejected Unkown) 05. Destroyer - "Your Blood" (Destroyer's Rubies) 06. The Dodos -...
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Hey, tough guy, guess what? Vivian Girls are going on tour again. And what are you going to do about it? Nothin', that's what! Because, well, why would you want to do anything about it? There's nothing too threatening about Vivian Girls going on tour. Doesn't matter anyway, they're touring and you can't do anything about it. Actually, not only are they touring, they're going on two tours, albeit f
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From CNN: The lead singer of the rock band Weezer was involved in a bus accident Sunday that left him and another passenger in an upstate New York hospital. Rivers Cuomo, 40, complained of rib pain and was transferred, along with one other passenger, to St. Mary's Hospital in Amsterdam, New York. Cuomo's wife, daughter, and a fifth passenger on the bus were uninjured. The bus was traveling from...
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