Blaming Zach Braff

December 1st, 2009

Natalie Portman popped headphones onto Zach Braff’s head and said flatly, “This song will change your life.” The resulting sound was not only that of carefully composed dullness (thank you, Shins), but of a million wealthy white kids investing in dull acoustic music to soundtrack their own romantic melodrama. Bored New World: How the Zach […]

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Victoria’s Secret – Make The Girl Dance

December 1st, 2009

Not particularly new, but currently being used in a Victoria’s Secret commercial.

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Too Much Joy, Not Much Royalty

December 1st, 2009

“I got something in the mail last week I’d been wanting for years: a Too Much Joy royalty statement from Warner Brothers that finally included our digital earnings.”

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Paul Weller and Kevin Shields – “7 & 3 Is the Strikers Name”

November 29th, 2009

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Pixies on Fallon

November 29th, 2009

Given that Doolittle is my favorite Pixies record I’m really quite torn regarding attendance of their upcoming show in DC. I don’t want to ruin the amazing memories I have from their reunion show in ATL. That show was positively magical and I had chalked it up to being the last time I would see […]

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No Distance Left to Run Trailer

November 29th, 2009

A Blur documentary?! Hell yeah. (Kinda makes me wish I had attended the reunion show in LDN in 2009. Sigh.) (via AJW/DiS

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1 kilometer zürich hardbrücke

November 28th, 2009

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