Entries from June 2009

Mary Timony has a new band! (in DC!)

June 5th, 2009

via Twitter: Mary Timony has a new band called Soft Power. That is all.

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Classic records lost in time and format, remerged as Pelican books.

June 4th, 2009

Brilliant concept and execution!

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New Metric Video for Sick Muse

June 3rd, 2009

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Goodbye Emusic?

June 2nd, 2009

Sound as Language has an interesting 2 part series on the changes afoot at Emusic now that they have added the Sony catalog to their offerings. Worth a read.

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Heaven Help You If You Messed With Their Cheese Plate

June 1st, 2009

Has it really already been 20 years of blur. Absolutely gutted I will miss them this summer. The compilation of moments and comments from the Guardian is a great trip down memory lane for Blurophiles. I remember (like it was yesterday!) buying the CD Single at Tower Records because I heard “There’s No Other Way” […]

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“It was all a bit of a Blur…”

June 1st, 2009

A handful of the behind-the-scenes pillars of the Blur legacy reminisce about the band’s origins, coming of age, and imminent future. By comparison, the American perspective on Blur is wildly different from pretty much any other country in the world. Even though we know Blur were the titans of the Britpop movement in England, it […]

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Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch on the not-so-glamorous life

June 1st, 2009

Bell and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch sort of matter of factly belies the notion that being in a pop band is in any way glamorous in his behind the scenes introduction to his current band God Help the Girl for The Guardian. Murdoch doesn’t exactly define what he means by “glamor”, though he does explain what […]

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