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State of the Pop Tarts Address!
Hello good readers of Pop Tarts Suck Toasted! My apologies for posting another one of these lame updates on the site and for not posting much this week but I just wanted to catch you all up on what’s been going down with the site the past few weeks and where we’re planning on going [...]
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Monday’s Leaky Faucet
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Who: Ellie GouldingTitle: LightsRelease Date: March 16thLabel: Neon GoldThoughts: At the beginning of the year we tabbed Ellie Goulding as the our most anticipated new artist of the year based on her amazing first single “Under the Sheetsâ€. After hearing her debut album Lights the only word that can come to mind is disappointment. The [...]
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This Week’s Live Picks
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Monday: Mon Khmer, Home Video, + Your Nature @ Brooklyn Bowl 8pm FREE [info]If you haven’t noticed from recent weeks we tend to prefer the shows that are listed as free on Monday nights and tonight is no exception to the recent trend. Brooklyn Bowl is once again opening wide its doors hoping that you [...]
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Pop Tarts’ Weekly Playlist
Track of the Week:RAAAAAAAANDY – “AAAAAAAANGRYâ€; In the lead up to the movie Funny People we were treated to a new character named RAAAAAAAANDY (with 8 A’s) played by Aziz Ansari. By most accounts this character and his 10-total minutes of screen time was the best thing about the whole movie (I disagree) and anyone [...]
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Professional Karaoke
Ellie Goulding – “Sweet Disposition†(The Temper Trap cover, via The Music Slut); Lately we feel we have abandoned our indie rock roots and given a front seat to the sweet sounds of pop that have been filling the web lately. We’re sorry if you haven’t enjoyed it but we’re not done with it just [...]
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Band of the Week: The Art Museums
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Duo’s are nothing new to the world of indie rock, nor are lo-fi bands from San Francisco, but whatever The Art Museums are currently doing is working for them. Having just released their new mini-LP, Rough Frame, on Woodsist the band is starting to get their legs under them and starting to reach a much [...]
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EP of the Week: Parenthetical Girls “Privilege, Pt. 1″
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Following two records of solid indie rock, Parenthetical Girls opted to change things up for their last release Entanglements. On that record they went for a more orchestral sound, recording big compositions that were a little bit more daunting for the casual indie listener. To make it even more intense the lyrical content was mostly [...]
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Blast from the Past: The Presidents of the United States of America
Yep it’s time for a corny, holiday related Blast from the Past! I know you guys love it when I act all seasonal, even if it is a week late. Yeah, I completely forgot that last week marked the national holiday known as President’s Day and that I wanted to take a look at the [...]
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From the Inbox
Who: Alex Gruenburg Location: Washington, D.C.RIYL: American Idol, Teddy Geiger, post-Brian Wilson Beach BoysThoughts: On Alex Gruenburg’s homepage he declare that he is on a mission to revive the pop sounds of the 1960’s, bands like The Kinks, The Beatles, and The Zombies. That’s a pretty lofty goal and I don’t know that Gruenburg has [...]
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Questionable Corner: Drink Up Buttercup
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Drink Up Buttercup are not your typical, straight forward indie rock band. Like fellow Philly residents Man Man, Drink Up Buttercup make quite a spectacle of themselves on stage, banging on garbage can, dancing about, and bringing a level of energy and excitement to the live setting that few bands could ever hope to match. [...]
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Tues. Recommended Release (Pt. 2): Efterklang
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Efterklang have been doling out amazing pop songs for ten years now and yet for whatever reason I never really took the time to listen to them before now. It is a huge oversight on my part, but one that I never knew of until I started listening to their third full length, Magic Chairs, [...]
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This Week’s Other Releases
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Who: Johnny Cash Title: America VI: Ain’t No GraveThoughts: Considering this is more than likely the final chapter of Johnny Cash’s incredible career we must treat this record a little differently than we would treat other albums, it is his last statement to the world after all and that alone puts it on par with [...]
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Pop Tarts Suck Toasted & I Rock I Roll Present…
Last year I went down to SXSW for the first time ever and had enough of a good time to plan a repeat trip this year. For the first time ever I will be presenting my own little SXSW showcase with the help of my buddy Nora over at I Rock I Roll!!! The show [...]
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Tues. Recommended Release: Joanna Newsom
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The thought of listening to a 2-hour long album is more than a little bit daunting. Records just aren’t meant to last that long and in this ADD addled generation of requiring ridiculous amounts of entertainment the thought of two hours spent listening to an harpist spin songs of the fantastic doesn’t seem realistic. Yet [...]
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Gettin’ Comp’d
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Title: The Minimal Tapes Vol. 1Big Names: Oppenheimer Analysis, Crash Course in Science, Martin DuPontThoughts: With a renewed focus on minimal pop sounds it seemed pretty inevitable that someone would eventually dig up some of the older synth pop from the 70’s and 80’s to be released as a compilation of some sort. That person [...]
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New Vid: Vampire Weekend “Giving Up the Gunâ€
We have made it abundantly clear that we are riding the Vampire Weekend train as far as it will go at this point, backlash be damned!!! Everything these guys seem to do is as much fun as can be and that comes across once again in their star studded video for “Giving Up the Gunâ€!For [...]
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New Wax: Broken Social Scene
For the past five years we have waited patiently as the members of Broken Social Scene indulged themselves with solo projects, side projects, and those mostly forgettable Broken Social Scene Presents… records, waiting for the day when the Canadian music collective would choose to wow us once again with their long winded, awe inspiring sounds. [...]
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Tonight!!!
My buddy Tom, who wrote Hit Singularity, and does a number of things in the music world put together a fundraiser tonight to raise money for a book he is about to write and release. On the bill tonight are Miracles of Modern Science, Dynasty Electric, mynameisjohnmichael, and Common Prayer, all terrific bands and all [...]
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Live Review: Arpline + Class Actress @ Brooklyn Bowl
The record release party is a tried and true tradition in the music world, allowing a band to showcase their brand new material while also hoping to make some money off it’s release after the show is done. On Wednesday night Arpline didn’t make much business sense playing a free record release party and giving [...]
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