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Archive for October 2007

Joe Pernice – Guest Blogger at Powell’s

One of my all-time favorite musicians, Joe Pernice, of Pernice Brothers and Scud Mountain Boys fame has written a guest blog post over at Powell’s Books. In addition to creating perfectly crafted songs, Joe has written a novella based on the Smiths’ Meat Is Murder for the 33 1/3 series.

Check out Joe’s post here.

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Vampire Weekend – Mansard Roof

Sure the name is misleading a bit. Vampire Weekend play fantastic organic pop music, not pop punk or moribund pop music (see The Cure), as their name might suggest. Emusic just made available the Mansard Roof single in preparation for their upcoming LP, due out in January of ‘08.
The two songs featured are, [...]

Wu Tang Clan – The Heart Gently Weeps

December 4th, 11th, or 17th can’t come soon enough. One of those dates will be the release date for the new Wu album…hopefully. I’ve given up trying to keep track of it anymore.
On the bright side, thanks to Loud.com and the good folks at Pitchfork, we have access to a new track from [...]

The Boo Radleys – Everything’s Alright Forever

The Boo Radleys are often considered a footnote. Dismissed by critics as a minor band riding the coattails of My Bloody Valentine, they have not been written into history the way many of their contemporaries have. To top it all off, Everything’s Alright Forever is considered one of their lesser albums. A prologue to their [...]

Video: Elliott Smith – Between The Bars

As part of a short three song documentary/montage called Lucky Three filmed in 1996, Elliott Smith played an especially intimate version of Between The Bars (as if it could get much more intimate). I’m sure this video is realatively well known by the Elliott Smith faithful. But at the risk of retreading already well-worn steps, [...]

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