Two weeks ago Bean and I went to see The Dodos play. They were amazing and the new songs are spectacular live. So the whole experience was wonderful; great band, great company, great venue … Except for one thing, the guy standing next to me had ehm, terrible BO. I don’t know how to put [...]
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Well, it’s that time again (a little late, but nevermind), and I’ll just be honest here: I didn’t get many new albums in August and the ones I got didn’t exactly knock my socks off. I’ll start with the only ‘big’ release I’ve got to talk about: Julian Plenti (otherwise known as Paul Banks) is [...]
Filed under: In The Merry Merry Month, Music | Tagged: Black Lips, Cast Spells, Dan Sartain, Jack White, Jamie T, Julian Plenti, Lily Allen, Lovvers, Miike Snow, The Antlers, The Drums, The Molotovs, The XX, Yim Yames | Leave a Comment »
Update: I’m bumping up this post from last week, which was just a little nod to a group I’ve loved for as long as I can remember, in tribute to Mary Travers, who died yesterday at the age of 72. The New York Times has a very nice obituary here and there’s not much I [...]
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There’s been discussion in the 100b HQ the past few weeks about a new category and yesterday it seems as if we got a winner for the category name: Cover Story. The gist of the new category is, duh, covers. How the covers sometimes surpress the original. And sometimes not. Plus, some background about the [...]
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A few weeks ago, Bean wrote a very cool post that linked The Raveonettes to Twin Peaks. I never really made a connection between a piece of music and a seemingly unrelated TV show that way until I heard “Revival”. I’m still sad that Carnivale, the HBO show set during the Great Depression which was [...]
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