Straight from the horses mouth, guys:LOS ANGELES – The 2009 “We The People” Festival originally scheduled for Nov. 21 has been postponed until early 2010. From the Festival:As organizers, we are committed to presenting only the finest event possible for this important movement. Due to ongoing economic challenges, we decided our best option was to move the event to a later date to insure thes
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WE THE PEOPLE MUSIC FESTIVAL RESCHEDULED FOR 2010
Durutti Column To Release Tony Wilson Tribute Early 2010
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I fucking hate mondays. I hate them so much that I'd rather not participate in them at all, but this morning was cool cause while I was driving with one hand/tweeting/facebooking/smoking in shitty traffic, I came across the following news: Manchester post-punk act The Durutti Column will release and perform A Paean to Wilson - a tribute to Factory Records co-founder and Hacienda nightclub manag...
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The Money Mixtape
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Welcome to another edition of the Sunday Mixtape, brought to you by Fantastic Weapon. Except it's not Sunday, it's Saturday. So what. I'm early. DEAL. Plus, this one's good. This week's theme: PAPER. Benjamins. Dead Presidents. You know, the root of all evils:
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Norah Jones on Soundcheck Nov 15th
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I'm not really sure whether I'm all that into Norah Jones, but Sunday marks her return to Soundcheck. This time, she's back to promote her upcoming record, "The Fall" which was co-written by the dude from Okkervil River and Ryan Adams, and which you can preview via NPR's exclusive first listen. According to NPR, "It's best to disregard much of the pre-release attention surrounding
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PARTY WEIRDO Festival Saturday Nov. 14th
Not really sure how I missed this one guys, considering the fact that I live like 2 miles away from where this shindig's gonna go down, and 2 or 3 of my friend's bands are playing. Better late than never though, hmm? If you don't have plans, now you do. Unless you're like me and you don't have 10 bucks to spend on it. So someone go, support the crew, be stoked that some awesome tunes are gonna ...
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Cover songs mixtape – Halloween 2009
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Happy halloween, and don't get pissed if I steal your candy. Also, don't skip out on your girlfriend to go shoot dope and then call her from the hospital after another overdose, cause she'll probably be out trick or treating. Translation: be fucking safe. Please.
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NEW YEASAYER IN 2010
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Yeasayer have confirmed details about their second album release; the follow-up to their highly acclaimed 2007 debut 'All Hour Cymbals'. The new record is called Odd Blood and will be released on February 8th of 2010. STOKED. Hope it's as good as the last one was. Yeasayer are also set to play a special show, headlining New York's Guggenheim Museum on October 30. "Special Show" huh? Wonde
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WORLD PREMIERE OF ‘NIRVANA LIVE AT READING’ ON FUSE
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On November 2 at 11 p.m. ET, Fuse, the national music network, will televise the worldwide premiere of Nirvana Live at Reading, the band's legendary, never-before-released 1992 Reading concert. The show, marking the first time that Nirvana fans will experience the epochal August 30, 1992 headlining appearance at UK's Reading Festival, will debut as an hour long broadcast the night before the li...
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Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms
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Ok, so you've heard it, I've heard it; it's been all over the blogosphere lately. The hip thing for the past 3-6 months has been chillwave. You know what I mean, hopefully: indie pop music of the more "laid-back" variety. It was absolutely huge this summer, with its hazy undertones and minimalist grooves. I hadn't really been interested in a lot of it, mostly because the majority of that p...
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The Funniest Man In America: Neil Hamburger
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He has a few records out but a couple years ago he put one called Neil Hamburger Sings Country Winners and it's basicaly the funniest thing ever. Los Angeles (and other parts of the country), Neil Hamburger will be performing at Spaceland on November 29th, and he'll be doing some comedy stuff, also at Spaceland, on October 25th. I'm tired so I'm gonna go to sleep now (yes at 9:45pm on a Saturda...
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Ezra Furman & the Harpoons = Violent Femmes v.2
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I've been waiting forever to find the right time to post this. Once someone asked me, "Are there any CURRENT bands that I could go see now that are awesome and rock like Violent Femmes?" I had a really hard time coming up with an answer, and finally settled on Tapes n' Tapes, but still didn't feel like it was the right answer. A few months later I heard this fucking fantastic song on the radio,...
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Unseen Nirvana Footage From 1992
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Checkout this clip of Nirvana performing "School" at the 1992 Reading Festival - I guess it was recently made available for fans and comes from the CD+DVD Nirvana Live At Reading which hits stores November 17th. (CD only version arriving on November 3rd.) Nirvana's performance at the Reading Festival in 1992 was one of the greatest Nirvana shows of all time (not that I've actually ever se
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Sunday Mixtape is back!
Mixwit has been dead for some time now, and today I spent like 3 hours trying to make it work on my server - unfortunately, it was to no avail. Enter 8tracks.com. Mixes can only be 8 songs long, they play in random order, and don't look like tapes at all, but they'll serve the purpose until I find one as cool as mixwit was - anybody have any suggestions/know how to fix it??!?! Please lemme know!
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Sublime Reunion (Again) – at Smokeout 2009
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Bassist Eric Wilson and drummer Bud Gaugh are hitting the stage as Sublime, just like they did in February - only, now everyone knows about it so FANS will actually get to go. The show is part of Cypress Hill's Smokeout, and while Sublime might get the most attention, the lineup includes a ton of your favorites. Scheduled to hit the stage on Oct. 23 and 24 are...
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Best Interview Ever: Ian Svenonius Interviews Steve Albini on Soft Focus
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Steve Albini is responsible for fronting the most caustic and, depending on whether or not you have a sense of humor, either hilarious or upsetting bands of the mid- to late-80s (Big Black), that weird sort of late-80s to 90s spur period (Rapeman), and the 90s proper (Shellac), as well as producing more albums by more bands than we're sure even he can keep track of.
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3 Songs I Kinda Love (By 3 Artists I Really Don’t)
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Let me preface by saying I have not heard any songs by any of these artists except for the ones posted below. I kinda feel like the rest of them will probably suck, so at the risk of losing esteem for the presented tracks, I think I'll choose to remain ignorant.
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FLASHBACK FRIDAY: The Associates – Club Country
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The Associates released 'Club Country' on April 26th 1982, which appeared on their third album, Sulk. The B side was a non-LP track. The 12 inch version added "Ulcragyceptemol" (added as a bonus to Sulk when it was re-released) and a remixed version of "Club Country". The single reached the #10 spot on the U.K. singles chart.
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FLASHBACK FRIDAY: The Box Tops, The Buckinghams, and Jefferson Airplane
Yes I know it's Sunday, so what? Since I haven't been vibing on any music lately, except for Shellac (obviously), and I can only post the same 5 Shellac songs so many times before someone'll throw a brick at my head until I can't lift it anymore, I had to come up with something. So these are my 3 favorite songs written before 1970. At least, they are for right now and probably still will be to..
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Sneak Peek: Shakira on Soundcheck – September 28th
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Even though I'd say the readers of this blog are probably not interested in Shakira, the REMIX FAIL post got shit tons of traffic so some of you MUST be interested. Shakira stopped by Soundcheck a couple weeks ago and performed 3 tracks from her new release, "She-Wolf." The exclusive interviews and performance videos will be live on the soundcheck website on September 28th. Until then, here's s...
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M.A.U. = Portugese Goodness
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Just got a stellar new track from the fellas in M.A.U., otherwise known as Man and Unable. These gents are an electro-house duo from Portugal -- unless they're playing live, in which case they tack on another two members -- and are yet another reason why the Southern Hemisphere is bringing the heat in terms of excellent dance music (see also X-Wife, the Twelves, and almost anything on Modular).
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