Here we are again, at the end of the month and ready to go through the painful process of picking our single favorite song by a band chosen by one of our esteemed staff. This time around we’re going to tackle the great and powerful Weezer, and who doesn’t love Weezer? Having blasted from [...]
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There are some bands whose records I really loved and enjoyed at the time I got it, but the moment it was drowned out by my next exciting purchase they fell off my radar. It has nothing to do with the band, I just moved on from their particular sound and felt no need to [...]
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Miracles of Modern Science are a six-piece band currently based in Brooklyn who play – according to the email 100b received a few weeks ago – ‘orchestral space-pop’. Which, honestly, sounds exactly like the kind of thing I would hate. Luckily I checked them out anyway, and was pleasantly surprised to find that ’space-pop’ isn’t [...]
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Nobody, I mean nobody, does Poptastic like Quentin Tarantino. From Reservoir Dogs to Death Proof, fans of the quirky director look forward to the music providing the sonic supporting cast almost as much as the film itself. And we’re never disappointed.
Some months ago, the Bean and I watched Death Proof, Tarantino’s 2007 homage to the [...]
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Brett Milano’s Vinyl Junkies: Adventures in Record Collecting is one of my all-time favorite music books. To be honest, it’s not really all that much about music itself, but about the sub-culture of obsessive vinyl collectors. Milano journeys into the depth of the vinyl junkie world, meeting all sorts along the way and mostly asking [...]
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