I’ve been listening to the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ record, It’s Blitz!, for a couple weeks now and while it is a little more produced/polished than previous records, it has really grown on me. I’m really loving the retro new wave tinge.

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I’m pretty excited about PJ Harvey’s new record with John Parish, as their last collaboration 13 years ago, Dance Hall at Louse Point, was rife with unsettling, artfully bluesy punk. This new video for “Black Hearted Love” mines similar terrain musically. Parish’s wiry guitar lines are enveloped once again by Harvey’s haunting vocals. The juxtaposition […]

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With my Google Reader having been clogged with SXSW posts all week, I’ve sort of half-heartedly slogged my way through. It’s never very fun reading about a festival you aren’t attending, unless there’s something remarkable or noteworthy. And endless photos and setlists of bands that play every festival anyway hardly seem newsworthy. But Echo & […]

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Saw Marnie Stern live Friday night in Charlotte, NC at this dive bar called Snug Harbour. Stern was far less imposing than I had assumed. For some reason the artwork for her sophomore LP on Kill Rock Stars, This Is It…, makes her seem lanky and tall. In person, she’s a tiny little thing, but, […]

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Cursive made its network TV debut on Letterman Friday night, performing the dynamic and emotional “From the Hips” off its sixth studio album, Mama, I’m Swollen, out now on Saddle Creek. Love it when the horns come in. Kasher lets out some classic bellows, and Letterman seemed genuinely impressed.

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Speaking of music from commercials, I love this Bardot track.

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I unabashedly fell in love with Metric before they even had a record out. Back in 2001, I found myself humming a jingle from a Polaroid commercial and my girlfriend asked who it was and I didn’t know and despite searching the web like crazy I simply couldn’t find out. So she called Polaroid.

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