So, you’ve totally been waiting for a new INXS record, right?

February 24th, 2010

Well, you’re going to be super-stoked because not only is INXS putting out a new record, it’s also kinda/sorta simultaneously putting out an old record but with new singers on old songs. Sound awesome? Or more like a desperate attempt to drum up some business, using the cheapest, most shameless means possible? Well, it gets […]

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Devo converts Olympians with “Uncontrollable Urge”

February 24th, 2010

With its first new album in two decades launching this April, Devo is poised to prove to the world that Devolution is real, looking only slightly rounder for the wear. The band played during prime time at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver two nights ago with a smattering of classics like “Uncontrollable Urge” as well […]

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Magnetic Fields cover of Not One of Us

February 21st, 2010

Came across this interview/cover of the Peter Gabriel song by Stephin Merritt. Part of a project of covers. Odd. Not One of Us. Interesting to hear Stephin’s comments.

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Fanfarlo play Letterman

February 19th, 2010

Seriously?! Already on Letterman?

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Beach House

February 19th, 2010

This album has grown on my ears like a fungus. So good, but so not my style. Something about Beach House harkens back to Red House Painters for me. No idea why.

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The Morning Benders

February 19th, 2010

I give in. This is good. (via Tug3000, twice)

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VIDEO: Vampire Weekend “Giving Up the Gun”

February 19th, 2010

Love them or hate them, Vampire Weekend know how to polarize and confuse an audience. The band’s new video for “Giving Up the Gun” features Joe Jonas, Lil John, Jake Gyllenhaal, and RZA. The WTF-iness of it all is a spectacle in and of itself, but the video is nothing if not amusing. Surreal is […]

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