“Joe welcomes Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields, who performs “The Nun’s Litany” from their new album Distortion and talks to Joe about recording the album, his ambition to do 50 successful Hollywood musicals and silent movie scoring. Tune in on Tuesday, March 4th for another song from Stephin Merritt and the second half of […]

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I really like She & Him. I know, it makes no sense at all, but I’m not going to try and figure it out. Something about the album very much reminds me of Madeleine Peyroux‘s Dreamland, which I also liked and never figured out why. Sometimes, I guess you just have to accept these things. […]

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A lot has happened in the world of Canadian music since The Stills’ well received debut record and abysmal follow-up. Will the 3rd album be the charm or the final nail in the coffin? Nice to see them on Arts & Crafts, regardless. (swiped from QuarterlifeParty)

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Apparently, YouTube is going to screen Sigur Ros‘ Heima. WTF?!

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The Curious Cultural Journey of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” Pretty amazing. (Reminds me of this wonderful collection)

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A fellow by the name of Stewart Smith used Applesoft II and a 1979 Apple ][+ with 48K of RAM to program an amazing video for the song “Jed’s Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)” off of Grandaddy’s lovely 2000 release, The Sophtware Slump. The V2 label retroactively signed a contract with Smith and made his interpretation […]

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