Like Cat Power, it’s not so much about the music as it is the voice for Leslie Feist. She has a voice that makes you pay attention. She can pull off simple, saccharine lines like “we could hold each other tight tonight” (“So Sorry”) simply because her inflection makes it mean so much more than [...]

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Zuexeus rocks. Ex-Cornelius. A one-man Drive Like Jehu. This is from his 1999 self-titled disc.
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Zuexeus - “March Against October” - mp3

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This is an astounding collection of pdf scans of complete issues of Maximumrocknroll, Flipside, HeartattaCk and Suburban Voice dating back to the late 1970’s. These guys clearly love their punk rock in the most obsessive and anal way. All of the zines are out of print and free. So, no more paying ridiculous prices for [...]

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If anybody needs a vacation, it’s The Strokes. Man, those guys churn out some records. I mean, since 2001 they’ve put out three complete LP’s- none of that EP slackness. That’s an average of one record for every two years that have passed, which is no small feat in today’s competitive marketplace. And it’s not [...]

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Japanese bonus track off Mirrored. Sort of a difficult drone- it’s unlike anything else on the LP.
Battles - Katoman - mp3

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Police drummer Stewart Copeland told Billboard that he wants to bend the reunion rules the band agreed upon for its tour, only for its headlining Bonnaroo show. The rules, as I understand them, ban additional musicians and back-up singers, which I applaud. Why Copeland wants to break them for Bonnaroo is a mystery. Does he [...]

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Billboard reports that the Anti- label is putting out a benefit CD/DVD for Healing the Divide’s Tibetan Health Initiative, featuring Tom Waits, Philip Glass, and Anoushka Shankar. The concert was held back in 2003 at New York’s Avery Fisher Hall. Waits played with Greg Cohen and the Kronos Quartet, and he makes up the bulk [...]

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Asked by Guardian Unlimited to pony up the secret decoder for what makes its debut, Mirrored, tick, Battles throws out ten reference points, which predictably range from the obscure to the amusing to the nonsensical. Among them:
The art of neo raunch
“If there was ever an example of what the music of Battles “looks” like, it [...]

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I hate it when people describe music in terms of food with all the musical “ingredients” and a “dash” of this or that nonsense. It’s lazy and lame. And sometimes even creative writers like Andre 3000 stoop to the cliche. MTV News recently spoke with the more flamboyant half of Outkast with a headline [...]

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David Yow singing three part harmonies? Well, I doubt it sounds like a barbershop quartet. First of all, it’s David Yow, ex-leader of The Jesus Lizard, which guarantees nothing close to normal. And, secondly, the forthcoming Qui album is on Ipecac, which also guarantees weirdness. Yow joined Qui after hanging out like a creepy old [...]

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With a new, all-instrumental album, The Mix-Up, due out June 26, the Beastie Boys are returning a little more low-key than usual. King Adrock has an amusing back and forth with The Stranger’s Jonathan Zwickel.
Adrock on selling out:
“I don’t think that people buying records or whatever really give a shit if you make money or [...]

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