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Nickelback has been a punching bag for anyone with ears for years, but for some inexplicable reason Chris Martin of Coldplay has decided to side with the insipid Canadian quartet, saying, “They take a lot of flack from people who have never done fuck all in their life. I think they’re great. That’s my final […]

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Man. Is there a song on Santogold’s album that isn’t in a commercial? I haven’t witnessed anything like this since Moby’s Play. Beer, Cars, you name it she’s in the background. WTF?

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With its phonetically malapropistic name, Columbia, South Carolina’s Cassangles defies any qualifying genre distinction. There are scraps and strains of familiar sounds to be sure, but they’re fused together loosely in chaotic bursts of energy and underscored by the youthful disdain of form and structure. The brashness of this band’s ethos and execution is infectious. […]

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The new Wedding Present single off this year’s El Rey may have a very Wedding Present sounding name in “Don’t Take Me Home until I’m Drunk”, but the tune seems more suitable for Gedge’s other band, Cinerama, with its soft and jangly approach-that is until the guitars kick in at the end. In other news, […]

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The Voice has an interview with Mr. Merritt on the cusp of his Fall tour. I’ll be catching him in DC. “Ordinarily we completely ignore the sound of the record when we develop the live show, but in this case I have made one tiny concession, which is that instead of playing the ukulele, quietly, […]

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Rob Gretton former manager of Joy Division and New Order apparently kept journals during his tenure with the bands. Interesting. (via Logan)

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