For me, School of Seven Bells' 2008 album, Alpinisms , was one of those slow-burners that sneak up on you. One day your walking around listening to your iPod and boom...Half Asleep (or Iamundernodisguise or Connjur or one of the many other great songs on the album) comes on and wakes you right up. A quick re-listen of the album, along with multiple listens afterwards, firmed up what I mi...
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My Old Kentucky Blog 2008 Holiday Interview Series : Alejandra Deheza of School of Seven Bells
MOKB Exclusive : The Welcome Wagon cover The Smiths
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As I said told you yesterday , I've really been enjoying The Welcome Wagon , one of the newest bands to sign to Asthmatic Kitty Records. Today we feature an exclusive alternate version of a Smiths cover the band recorded not too long ago. The Welcome Wagon - Half A Person (Smiths cover - alternate version/Poodle Puff Remix) Previous: The Welcome Wagon - Sold! To The Nice Rich Man -...
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Free Mixtape : 10.Deep & DJ Benzi : The New Deal
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Thanks to GvB for pointing us to this one. 10.Deep & Benzi 's new The New Deal Mixtape . The FREE mixtape contains new material from Wale, Kid Sister, Blaqstarr, Santogold and Kanye West. DOWNLOAD: 10.Deep & DJ Benzi - The New Deal Mixtape (.zip) -------------------------------------------------------- Official Site | More MP3s | eMusic | Subscribe To RSS Feed
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My Old Kentucky Blog 2008 Holiday Interview Series : Ariel Pink New Songs!
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Despite not having released a new album, Ariel Pink kept plenty busy in 2008. With his fellow Haunted Graffiti's, he toured all across the US with Chairlift , released Odditties Sodomies Vol. 1 - a collection of rare outtakes and unreleased songs, and began writing and recording songs for a new record that will be released in 2009. But luckily, you don't have to wait until the new year to ...
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My Old Kentucky Blog 2008 Holiday Interview Series : Ariel Pink New Songs!
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Despite not having released a new album, Ariel Pink kept plenty busy in 2008. With his fellow Haunted Graffiti's, he toured all across the US with Chairlift , released Odditties Sodomies Vol. 1 - a collection of rare outtakes and unreleased songs, and began writing and recording songs for a new record that will be released in 2009. But luckily, you don't have to wait until the new year to ...
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My Old Kentucky Blog 2008 Holiday Interview Series : Vito Aiuto of The Welcome Wagon
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Asthmatic Kitty underwent quite an expansion in 2008. One of the acts I have been most intrigued by is The Welcome Wagon . The Welcome Wagon is a married couple, the Reverend Thomas Vito Aiuto and his wife Monique. With little-to-no musical training, Vito purchased a guitar with the desire to sing hymns with his family. With no ability to read music, Vito simply made up new tunes to ac...
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The Muslims explain the name change
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Artist:The Muslims
Remember when we told you how The Muslims changed their name to The Soft Pack? Well, we're still not accepting it, but they at least explain it... (photo by MOKB staff photographer Dave Donovan Evans ) VICE: Why did you change the name? Matty: It had started to seem like a burden. All the shit people say, people were being dicks, saying all this shit about jihad. We all felt pretty shit...
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Fresh Session : The Watson Twins on The Laundromatinee
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The Watson Twins , long-time friends of MOKB, former school chums, and all-around incredible singers stop by The Laundromatinee's VIBES II performance space location to play us some songs from their 2008 release Fire Songs . They also blend a great cover of Bill Withers' Ain't No Sunshine in with some of their album songs, which also include a cover of The Cure's Just Like Heaven . Th...
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Fresh Session : We Are Scientists & Oxford Collapse on The Laundromatinee
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We Are Scientists and Oxford Collapse stop by The Laundromatinee today. We were joined by our friends from Super!Alright! and Dell Summer Rocks for this session. We handed production duties over to them and just kicked back and enjoyed a day of music, melons, beer and burgers. Watch the videos from their session now at The Laundromatinee ! Bonus Album Cuts: Oxford Collapse - Birt...
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New Video : Little Joy : No One Better's Sake
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Stroke's drummer Fab Moretti's team-up with Rodrigo Amarante and Binki Shapiro has lead to one of our absolute favorite albums of 2008. Little Joy's self-titled debut is just so simple and perfect in so many ways. They've released a new video for No One's Better Sake ...(via ) Little Joy - No One's Better Sake -------------------------------------------------------- MySpace | More MP3s | ...
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irl: The Duke Spirit, Eulogies & THUNDERS
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(photo: _dde ) The Duke University spirit team did some field research @ Broad Ripple High School in Indianapolis ish to get some perspectives on where the REAL David Letterman's roots came from. That way they'd have something to chat with his secretary about after their pre show warm up routines/before performing on the David Letterman's 11:35pm - 12:35am [non]internet/[non]streaming vide...
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Today's MOKB Blog Radio on SIRIUS XMU Playlist : 120908
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Artist:DM Smith
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Track:Just Once
Tune in at noon EST today (and again at midnight) for My Old Kentucky Blog Radio on SIRIUS XMU - on XM Channel 43 and on SIRIUS Channel 26 still. Today's Playlist: fol chen - cable tv Cotton Jones - Blood Red Sentimental Blues Little Joy - The Next Time Around Port O'Brien - Tree Bones Ben Sollee - Only A Song (featuring Jim James of MMJ) Bon Iver - For Emma (live on MySpace Trans...
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Langhorne Slim & The War Eagles : Restless Wiffle Ball
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Everybody in sports hits a slump now and then. Luckily, the day Langhorne Slim & The War Eagles came to record with The Laundromatinee , the only thing slumping was his wiffle ball game. We posted the session a bit ago, but like I said then, we had some bonus footage of our impromptu wiffle ball game we were still splicing together. Here it is...apologies in advance Sean. Langhorne Slim ...
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The Spin Cycle : Grampall Jookabox & Asthmatic Kitty use P4K review to price album
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Track:Peace Attack
This is why I love Grampall Jookabox and Asthmatic Kitty ...(and Eric Harvey !) Stand-up guys...all of them. Start... 1) Pitchfork review of Grampall Jookabox's Ropechain 2) Asthmatic Kitty response 3) Marathonpacks.com analysis Previous: Grampall Jookabox - Peace Attack Grampall Jookabox - Air Penance Grampall Jookabox - The Steamboat Gothic Stomp Grampall Jookabox - ...
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Win This! : Eagles Of Death Metal : Ticket Give-away!
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My Old Kentucky Blog is giving away seven (7) pairs of tickets for the upcoming Eagles of Death Metal concert at The Vogue on December 15th. All you have to do to win is leave your contact email in the comments section below (Talk Back To Yo' Mama link). These will be redeemed as spots on the guestlist, not physical tickets. As always, emails will be chosen randomly by a non-MOKB affiliate...
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New Song : Lady Sovereign : I Got You Dancing
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Track:I Got You Dancing
Lady Sovereign will release her follow-up to 2006's Public Warning! in April of next year. She's released the first new track free. Following the trends, it's a seriously Auto-Tuned-up little number. The album, titled Jigsaw , will be released on what seems to be her own label, Midget Records, in conjunction with EMI. Lady Sovereign - I Got You Dancing --------------------------------...
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VHS or Beta : Last Stop, Indianapolis
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Track:Can't Believe a Single Word (LA Riots Remix V6)
(photo by _dde ) You can't spell philanthropic musical without the letters P-H-I-L-L-I-P-M-O-R-R-I-S... Okay, so it's one "R" short, but I'll take a free show, put my health at risk and choke down some second-hand. Actually, I think R.J. Reynolds makes Camel cigarettes...well, I'm a non-smoker, so I obviously don't pay too close attention to these things. Bottom line, this free show was w...
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My Old Kentucky Blog 2008 Holiday Interview Series : Nick Thorburn & Jim Guthrie of Human Highway
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Not too long ago we raved about Nick Thornburn, of Islands, and Canadian folk singer Jim Guthrie's new project Human Highway and their album Moody Motorcycle . While out on tour together, and while hanging out in their hotel room one night, the two started talking about writing and recording something together. They wrote the song My Beach in the hotel room that evening. They reconvene...
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Exclusive : Danielson Podcast & Trying Hartz (First Fruits '94-'04)
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Danielson released a double-disc retrospective this year called Trying Hartz . The discs feature highlights from the band's first ten years along with lots of rarities and unreleased material. Daniel Smith's squeaky vocals have always been a little hit and miss for me, but he actually explains why he uses these different voices in the podcast, which was nice to learn. What I have always...
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Everything, Now! : Let's Get Claustrophobic!
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(photo by MOKB staff photographer _dde ) Tight spaces suit Everything, Now! well, especially when their audience is bunch of [somewhat] genial drinkers and the venue is a small house whose owner/renter isn't afraid of a little dirt on the carpet. Want to see more ? Their latest full-length effort, Spatially Severed , was released last month. Everything, Now! - Shelter ------------------...
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