Killers duet with Duran Duran

June 5th, 2008

sorry, eric. (via)

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Tak o Tak, Stricken City

June 5th, 2008

mp3 available at pinglewood. (via BigStereo)

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Thao visits KEXP

June 5th, 2008

“Just as we were about to go live on the air, Thao Nguyen and the three guys in her band The Get Down Stay Down started swearing. They ran through all the words you can’t say on the radio, some of which would make a longshoreman blush. It turns out that this was strategic — […]

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Jens can’t fake it

June 1st, 2008

I saw Jens Lekman a few months back. Only about 6 months after this amazing show and while I enjoyed both shows, the latter was definitely lacking in that certain joie de vivre that can make or break any performance. So much so that I didn’t even post about it. Turns out even Jens wasn’t […]

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Moz keeps on cranking

June 1st, 2008

Is that really Moz? He looks so pedestrian. And old. (via the slut)

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Courtney Love has to be to blame for this…

May 30th, 2008

Once you reach a certain level of fame your dignity becomes harder and harder to hold on to. And that goes double for when you’re dead. I’m pretty sure Kurt Cobain would hemorrhage at the thought of Converse making a signature shoe in his honor. Well, actually, publicly he would have made a big stink […]

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M83 “Graveyard Girl” video

May 30th, 2008

I’ve been semi-obsessed with the new M83 record for a few weeks now and this song in particular. It’s such perfect shoegaze retro. It sounds like Jesus and Mary Chain filtered through a John Hughes movie soundtrack.

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