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Caribou Speaks For the Trees
12.02.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

This is my article cross-posted from Tiny Mix Tapes. Since they’re cool about me reposting my articles on my own blog without any exclusivity clauses, you should make like a tree and visit them and click on their ads and shizz. And speaking of trees, Caribou speaks for them…
For someone who’s named himself after majestic [...]
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Boduf Songs on His First Tour (They Grow Up So Fast)
11.10.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Moody, blacker than black slowcore folk superstar Boduf Songs, fresh from dropping How Shadows Chase the Balance on the flawless Kranky label, will bring joy to all the girls and boys this fall in his first national tour. Since it’s his first one, be nice ya’ll! The tour includes two New York shows and a [...]
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Six Organs of Admittance Returns to Zero
11.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

A friend of mine once wrote that his first experience seeing Six Organs of Admittance live caused pure dimension, in addition to believe things that were not true. He was convinced his apartment had a fourth room, which it did not, and he was ready to take a hammer to the bathroom to discover it. [...]
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Don’t Be a Jerk - Grip the New Deerhunter, For Real
10.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Tomorrow, Deerhunter’s monolithic double disc Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. drops courtesy of Kranky or 4AD, depending on where you live. Yes, it leaked, and we all greedily took. We all witnessed the Lord of the Flies-esque free-for-all, and the subsequent fallout from the blog debacle - in addition to the rueful behavior of the [...]
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The Animal Collective Album Art is Amazing
10.23.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

It would take a pretty awesome album cover to get its own post. And the album cover for the forthcoming Animal Collective album Merriweather Post Pavilion gets that honor.
The Magic Eye company spent years releasing optical illusion picture books that didn’t fuckin’ work! And it only took AC one try to get the wavy surrealism [...]
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Noise for Obama vs. CBS, A Legal Layman Discussion
10.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

You’ll remember that I’ve been impressed, amused, and intrigued by the Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt) and Brian Miller (Foot Village) online civic engagement brainchild Noise for Obama. No Age was very happy to chip in and offer an official artist statement pledging their allegiance to Senator Obama. They recently tried to do the same thing [...]
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News Roundup: Kranky Records, Asobi Seksu, Animal Collective
10.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

All the news that’s fit to print…

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So… Watcha Think of the New Deerhunter Art?
10.02.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Like me with this site’s design and layout, Deerhunter likes to tweak and change and constantly alter the forthcoming Microcastle/Weird Era Cont cover. The original, found here, will still be displayed on the domestic Kranky vinyl release, though. There’s also this one floating around that appears as the proper art via iTunes. So… what do [...]
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The Dow is Down, Noise For Obama is Up
09.30.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Words do no justice to the awesomeness of above illustration. As reported earlier, the noise community has stopped tinkering with feedback loops for a moment or two in the name of civic engagement. Noise for Obama, with a most triumphant Wonderful Rainbow-themed background, launched roughly two weeks ago and now has some artist statements up [...]
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Roky Erickson and the Black Angels Buddy Up
09.26.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

Sweet sassy molassey! I had no clue that Roky Erickson, 13th Floor Elevators‘ mastermind and D.A.R.E. role model by example, is performing with the Black Angels next week. And I found this out from, get this, a pay-per-click advert on FaCeBoO!klol. My lameness has reached critical mass.
Having just returned from a quick east coast jaunt, [...]