The weather didn’t at all cooperate with Radiohead’s fans last night and they’re sharing their horrific experiences online today. Some folks didn’t even make it inside. Pasta Primavera’s got an amazing photo from the parking lot. Others probably wish they hadn’t… You know when there us a huge storm with lightening and thunder and it […]

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Seems I’m not the only one curious about the AT&T Commercial that sounds an awful lot like someone covering that Beta Band song “Squares.” Kevmo did the hard work and dug up the original track from the ’70s group Wallace Collection. Thanks, Kev! (title is a play on the quote from High Fidelity regarding the […]

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Andrew Bird’s blog over at the New York Times discusses the recording process and all of the myriad decisions made that eventually “make a song.” We discuss a lot of things to help us get the songs just right — like not hitting cymbals because the crashes can be “cheap thrills.” Instead we favored the […]

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New video from The Kills, Last Day Of Magic. Something about The Kills really appeals to me, but I also tend to lose interest pretty quickly. I have/had the same problem with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Love of Diagrams to some extent.

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New Urban Outfitters video features We Own The Sky. Is this a “sellout?” I really don’t know. Not exactly a commercial, but it does feature pretty prominently on the front page of their site. They featured She & Him recently as well. (via)

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In the case of Ting Tings, or anyone that’s ever sold their music to Apple, accepting the “sellout” is probably worth the bling that rolls in after being in an iPod commercial. See also: Feist, CSS, et al. Now if only we could get Chris Knox an iPod commercial. Or Tom Waits. Actually, given that […]

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Mario’s got a new album coming out June 8. You can sample a track at MySpace. (Looks like a few dates are planned around the release, including a stop at DC’s Red & Black.)

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