I don't know if I have a lot of original ideas about Battles and their crazy sound, but as they are on tour I will just urge anyone curious to definitely check them out. I haven't listened much to their recordings, but their show is hardly dependent on knowing the "songs." The stage was set with one of the guitarists coming out, playing a loud bass riff a few times, then standing still while the
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Well, this new MOG playlist format seems a tad unwieldy, and many songs I looked up weren't "addable," but I've added one anyway with some of the songs I'm looking back fondly upon 2007 with... as... regarding... oh you get it. Hope it works.And here's the iTunes version
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Not sure how much of a serious "last show" this really was, but indie rock vets The Wrens played Emo's in Austin on July 21 and referred to it as their "graduation" at the end of 4 years of touring off of "The Meadowlands." They seemed to be having too much fun to convince me they actually plan to stop playing, but I figured I better catch it just in case. Bassist/singer Kevin Whelan must be one
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For Friday, I'm going to get lazy and point you to Pitchfork, as I spent most of the afternoon camped at Emo's with them. Especially once I figured out that if I left I'd have an easier time getting in the governor's bathroom than back in there. But the Forkers showed their muscle by bringing out a superb lineup - Fujiya & Miyagi, taking imitation to such sincere heights of flattery that it b...
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I don't know how people blog/MOG during SXSW, as I would pretty much get home and fall asleep, and I wasn't even going to the evening shows. But here's what I can recall post-fun.Life as an unconnected Day Partier can be fickle - if I can get in to a party, then so can anybody else - but the price is right. Wednesday was rainy so I ditched my initial plans and caught Ghostland Observatory at the
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I'm in the midst of one of those exciting/overwhelming moments where I come upon a virtual treasure palace of music I wasn't that aware of. Part of me wonders why I haven't found any of it before, but the rest is just happy to start digging in. Through various web trawlings, I kept coming across the name of Gilles Peterson, an English DJ who (I now realize) has been working for almost two decade
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For iTunes Store users, here's an iMix with some of my 2006 choices.
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