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Archive for September 2007

NEW RADIOHEAD!! IN 10 DAYS!!

Sweet!
Check out the original message from the band here.
stereogum graciously gathered the details for us here.
In short:
-It comes out in 10 days (Oct 10).-They’re calling it In Rainbows.-Radiohead is releasing it themselve, apparently. No label.-Thus far, it is available in Download or Discbox format only.-And the best part is, the price for the download version [...]

Iron & Wine – Pabst Theater 02/08/2007

Last week we posted about Sam Beam of Iron and Wine’s set at Messiah College. The show was the second in a pair of acoustic teasers for the fantasic The Shepherd’s Dog. Two days prior to the Messiah College show, Sam performed at Milwaukee’s Pabst Theater. The tracklist is strikingly similar with one major exception, [...]

The Twilight Sad live at Gooski’s in Polish Hill, Pittsburgh

The Twilight Sad will be at Gooski’s in Pittsburgh on October 2nd. Not sure what the cover will be, but the bar tender last night told me probably $5-7. A steal! Be there.
I scoured the intertoobs for a decent Twilight Sad video but there seems to be nothing but horrendously grainy live bootlegs of almost [...]

Young Marble Giants – Colossal Youth

One-off albums hold a mythical place in pop music history. A band appears, seemingly from thin air, and burns hard and bright before quietly disintegrating. Their music is left to stand on its own, pure and untouched by the excess that success often breeds.

Formed in 1978, Young Marble Giants released one album, 1980’s Colossal Youth, [...]

Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam

You may have noticed by now that when I get excited about something, I get really effing excited. Call it a character flaw, I guess.
Although it may be a little premature, I’m going out on a limb here and declaring that Strawberry Jam marks the second entry Panda Bear will have on my top 10 [...]

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