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Archive for March 2009

Covers: What Goes On

Lou Reed’s rhythm guitar drives “What Goes On,” locking into the beat to create a hypnotically taut rock ‘n roll stomp that inserts itself into your bloodstream to appropriately adjust your pulse. On 1988′s Only Life, the Feelies applied their trademark rhythmic tightness to latch on to Reed’s groove and give the tune a near-Krautrock [...]

Weekly Round Up – March 15th 2009

Esquire lists 75 Albums Every Man Should Own. New Line Cinema is developing an N.W.A. biopic entitled Straight Outta Compton. MBV lists the Record Store Day exclusives. Super Furry Animals will be revealing their new album live via webcast on their site  www.superfurry.com Aquarium Drunkard interviews Phosphorescent. Ponytail on Pitchfork.tv’s A>D>D Metallica Guitar Hero track [...]

Lukestar – Lake Toba

Power pop is a fickle mistress, it is easy to get lost in its countless releases (most of which are painfully mediocre), and forget why you loved it in the first place. To compound that, whenever you reach the breaking point with it, you stumble across an album which makes you forget everything that its [...]

Sloan: Bells On

Would you actually wear lipstick? MP3: Sloan – Bells On – From the album Twice Removed.

Peter Bjorn and John – Nothing to Worry About

Look, I’m not going to pretend to know what in God’s name is going on here.  All I know is that when you see this video all over those awful shows that just play internet videos, remember where you saw it first. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwcaQ3qJ88U[/youtube]

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