I like to think of myself as a pretty big Fugazi fan, having seen them live five or six times over the years, but the news of the band’s upcoming massive live archive website isn’t as exciting to me as it seems to be for everyone else. With literally hundreds of shows being digitized and […]
Entries from July 2010
Fugazi close to finishing complete concert archive
July 20th, 2010
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Keith Moon – Who Are You (isolated drum track)
July 20th, 2010
Fascinating. (via MeFi)
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Unknown Chocolate Pleasures
July 19th, 2010
Via Logan Via Dangerous Minds
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Squeeze on Fallon
July 16th, 2010
Squeeze has always sort of been a guilty pleasure of mine.
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eMusic interview with Teenbeat’s Mark Robinson
July 15th, 2010
Former Idolator honcho Maura Johnston interviews one of my heroes, Mark Robinson (of Teenbeat, Unrest, and Cotton Candy fame), in a cool, informative, and laid back Q&A session over at eMusic. In it Robinson discusses the nostalgic personal touch of home-dubbing cassettes, Unrest’s reunion tour, his proclivity for patterns in numbering, and his favorite designers. […]
Sting is an insufferable twat
July 15th, 2010
I doubt it’s news to anyone that Sting is an insufferable twat, but Dave Itzkoff of the New York Times had the point hammered home in a recent interview that The Guardian has snarkily whittled down to its most abhorrently pretentious bits, which I am more than happy to share with you now: “Ask Sting […]
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Angry fans demand recall of Duran Duran remasters
July 15th, 2010
With all the fan backlash regarding the sound quality of EMI’s recent Duran Duran remasters, I’m glad I’ve held off purchasing my third or fourth iterations of albums I’ve owned the better part of my life. Some fans are so disappointed – even angry – over the poor sound quality that they are campaigning for […]
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