By now you've read Pitchfork's hearty pan of Airborne Toxic Event's debut album and seen the band's, well, unfortunate but heartfelt response. Since my blogger New Year's resolution is going to be "Stop talking about Pitchfork so as to help remove them from their ungainly spot at the center of the critical conversation," I wasn't going to weigh in on this -- I don't think the Airborne Toxic Eve...
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[THIS POST WAS REMOVED BY POWERFUL, UNSEEN FORCES. ] THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT on MySPACE . From the LP THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT , 2008 >>> [ MP3 ] "Papillon" [ MP3 ] "Sometime Around Midnight" BONUS TRACK >>> [ MP3 ] "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" [2006]
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I don't care about Airborne Toxic Event as a band (I don't care about most bands, so nothing specifically against these guys), but I do think this recent kerfluffle they've puffed up with Pitchfork proves that there are still ways for indie rock bands--especially those not subject to Brooklyn's non-stop, barely-filtered publicity machine--to imaginatively try and separate themselves from the ev...
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By now you've read Pitchfork's hearty pan of Airborne Toxic Event's debut album and seen the band's, well, unfortunate but heartfelt response. Since my blogger New Year's resolution is going to be "Stop talking about Pitchfork so as to help remove them from their ungainly spot at the center of the critical conversation," I wasn't going to weigh in on this -- I don't think the Airborne Toxic Eve...
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Is it not enough that a kid shows up with a guitar and songs written from the heart? Sadly, not if the other kid shows up with a bouzouki, woodblocks, and The Polyphonic Spree in full orchestral force. If musicians taught us anything, it's that songs start out simple so they can end up complicated.For better or worse, here are beyond-basic musical instruments used to great effect or affectation in
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Ever go to a show and have to suffer through opening bands that make you wonder if it is even worth waiting for the headliner? Where the 30 minutes of so-called music feels like forever and your ears are simply begging you to stick something sharp in them, to stop the agony? Last week I went to see The Airborne Toxic Event, who were preceded by Red Cortez and then The Henry Clay People. I am he
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Well, I posted the other day a few times and not long after BOOM I went down like a shitload of bricks and had to go to hospital in Nongkhai Thailand...The good news is I am on the mend, and although weak.. well you would be too if you lost 7kgs, I am at least coherent now!!!Let it be a lesson to all, beware of the dreaded jungle bacteria!!! lol... and frigging mosquitoes!!! lol..This has just bee
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A recent live performance of 'Sometime around midnight' on late night TV...Just AMAZING.... bought me to tears...this one is just for you bb...And it starts... Sometime around midnightOr at least that's whenYou lose yourselfFor a minute or twoAs you stand... Under the barlightsAnd the band plays some songAbout forgetting yourself for a whileAnd the piano's this melancholy soundcheckTo her smile...
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Mikel and I were in a band together some 12 years ago. We hit the Stanford University scene with this band at a tremendous force. I had gotten back into contact with Mikel after I heard from another ex-bandmate that his new band was blowing up. I thought to myself, THAT VOICE SOUNDED SO FAMILIAR!!! It was their mega hit "Sometime Around Midnight" that I had heard somewhere. At the time I tot
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This is one of a live acoustic series in which each of the ten songs on the upcoming record (this was released in August 08) is performed acoustically in a different location.All of the videos are done in a single take.This is awesome....
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And what a acoustic of this non album track...Another of the amazing livedaily sessions....
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Some of you have heard me talk about this 8439842 times, but I just love this cover. The Airborne Toxic Event covering Q Lazzarus's Goodbye Horses.
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Mikel was kind enough to take some time from the TATE world tour (currently in Hamburg, Germany) to talk a little about TATE's past, present and future. Sonic Dissonance: Mikel, I wanted to congratulate you on the success of the album and everything else going on right now for The Airborne Toxic Event and thank you for taking some time to talk with me. Mikel Jollett: Sure and thank you Ben. SD:...
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Today's (controlled yet) screamy vocals were brought to my ipod courtesy of KCRW's Top Tune which was brought to them courtesy of the vocal chords belonging to Mikel Jollet, lead singer of The Airborne Toxic Event. There's nothing more romantic than a screamy love song, in my book. Other notable screamy vocals can be heard on Okkervil River's "Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe". A sentence fragm...
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The Airborne Toxic Event Sept. 25, 2009, Slowdown, Omaha, NEI can't remember the last time I went to a club show where there were so many pop radio fans who just wanted to hear one or two songs. Not letting that take away from The Airborne Toxic Event's show at the Slowdown in Omaha, NE last night, the mantra of the crowd was almost predominantly soccer moms wearing business casual clothing. Su...
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