(Hipster Runoff posted that damn Outback commercial and now I can’t get Wraith Pined to the Mist out of my head.)

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Magnetic Fields announce tour of fully seated “theatre” venues with upright pianos and minimal conversational noise (once at a Magnetic Field show I saw back in ’94, Stephin was so annoyed with someone talking at the bar that he threw a half-full water bottle at them).

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How odd. I really wanted to hate this, but how can you hate on SS? That’s just wrong. I wonder what Hipster Runoff would have to say about this. (swiped from About Today) *update* hipster runoff chimes in.

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Radio Silence documents the ignored space between the Ramones and Nirvana through the words and images of the pre-Internet era where this community built on do-it-yourself ethics thrived. (via)

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To try to make up for missing his show at the “Fabulous” Fox in Atlanta last weekend, I just got around to reading this interview Tom Waits conducted with himself. And it’s exactly the amount of crazy and cool I thought it would be. Highlights: Q: What’s the most curious record in your collection?A: In […]

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Well, this is unsurprising. Even on a good day with cheap gas, making a profit on tour for an upstart band is next to impossible. And, now that gas is over four dollars a gallon in some states, going out on tour has practically become cost prohibitive at the grassroots level. CNN has a story […]

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For some reason, punk’s most principled stalwarts, Fugazi, asked BBC Radio 1’s John Peel not to release a session the band recorded with the late legendary DJ back in December of 1988. I can’t imagine why because the performances are jaw-dropping-ly awesome and include expected staples like “Waiting Room” and Merchandise” as well as “Break […]

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