I Am Lost (And the Moment Cannot Last) from jason lytle on Vimeo.

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A dear friend sent me the Lily Allen Secret London Gig details today and while I’d love to see Ms. Allen again, I’m just far too slack to go to all the trouble necessary to get to the show. 1) Please bring ID. [ok, that’s pretty easy. Even I can manage that.] 2) Please bring […]

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News of James Mercer’s unceremonious decision to change the line-up of The Shins hit the blogs yesterday, thanks to Pitchfork’s interview piece. It seems so odd to me that not a single reaction focused on how obnoxious it is to change the line-up of a band three albums into its successful tenure. It drives me […]

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Gossip Girl’s Taylor Momsen, the sixteen year-old actress who plays Jenny Humphrey on the teen soap, fronts a band called Pretty Reckless. Of course, she does. This is the third cast member to parlay tween fame into a burgeoning music career. Ed Westwick has his Pete Doherty homage and Leighton Meester has been testing the […]

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The stage version of Nel Gaiman’s ‘Coraline’ is previewing in New York this week with music by Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields. The perennially blissful Merritt is busting at the seams with his usual brand of enthusiasm, telling Spinner dryly, “I don’t get excited.” Ah, well, ok. He continues: “I’m not that type of […]

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Tired of the wait between Interpol albums? Have a hankering for some bewildering rhyme schemes? Want to see Paul Banks sport a moustache? Well, then the Julian Plenti record slated for release on Matador’s roster for August should sate all your needs. Interpol’s frontman has managed to slip into the studio to record his first […]

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I’m not really a Mancunian, I’m more Salford.

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