Impossibly cool My Dad Is Dead performance from the Babylon A Go Go in Cleveland back in February of 1990. The song is off Mark Edwards’ masterpiece The Taller You Are, The Shorter You Get back when MDID used a drum machine. All the despair, cynicism, and loneliness you could ever need from one of […]

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Got four days to blow in September? Even after all the summer festivals have come and gone? Well, Music Fest NW is ready make you feel silly for blowing your wad on Lollapalooza with its impressive line-up. MFNW runs across four days (September 6-9) in Portland, Oregon. Seattle’s KEXP will broadcast live from the event […]

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Kings of Leon drummer Nathan Followill proposed to his girlfriend Jessie Baylin recently during dinner at a restaurant in New York, which is not very interesting news. But the rest of the band’s reaction is. Nathan’s younger brother, Caleb, who is also the band’s singer, is hardcore when it comes to the band’s principles and […]

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A Guardian piece follows the recent shutdown of one of Britain’s retail music chains and its larger impact on the music industry’s constantly shifting business model. The good news is that specialty record shops are hopping, as collector’s vinyl, limited releases, and obscure bands still sell well; it’s the “supermarket-style” retailers that are biting the […]

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Despite being ordered by a doctor to rest after missing two European concerts, Amy Winehouse still managed to pass the million selling mark here in America with her sophomore record, Back to Black, which has remained in the Top Ten of Billboard’s Top 200 album charts since its release four months ago. What’s amazing is […]

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Iron and Wine is back with its latest single, “Boy With a Coin”, on Sub Pop. The EP features two b-sides, “Carried Home” and “Kingdom of the Animals”, the latter of which is a laid-back, slightly jaunty, piano-laced bar room sway, replete with Sammy Beam’s patented hushed vocals. The production is worlds away from Beam’s […]

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Yeah, this is a really good idea. Get back into business with a label that made promotional whoopee cushions with your logo on them to hand out on the Warped Tour and then sued the shit out of you when you signed to a major. Good plan. Is being dumped from Island for not being […]

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