I’ve been reading some ho-hum impressions of Scarlett Johansson’s debut single, “Falling Down”, and, after listening myself, I must say I’m sort of surprised by the complaints. It’s nowhere near as meh as people are saying. I was expecting it to be horrible based on some of the hyperbolic headlines. Granted, it’s not great. It’s [...]

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Yesterday, a friend asked what I had been listening to lately. My mind went blank. We had discussed Crystal Castles earlier, but I couldn’t think of anything else. Of course, it wasn’t for lack of listening that I couldn’t name anyone in particular. I listen to music all the time. [...]

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Ready for Summer? Apparently Summerville, South Carolina is a good place to start. Check out the retro summer sounds of The Explorers Club. “The band draws on the soul-satisfying vocal style made famous by the Beach Boys and the Association, and pairs it with arrangements patented by the likes of Phil Spector, the [...]

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A new release on TEENBEAT? In 2008? From Bridget Cross and featuring Mark Robinson and Phil Krauth? WTF?! I’m not complaining or anything, but WTF?! Time to walk down the Teenbeat memory lane, I guess. (via)
Maybe It’s Reno - Gravestones

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“The National as seen through the lens of Vincent Moon of La Blogotheque fame.” (via)

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Chuck Klosterman tells it like it is.
“People didn’t stop buying albums because they were philosophically opposed to how the rock business operated, and they didn’t stop buying albums because the Internet is changing the relationship between capitalism and art. People stopped buying albums because they wanted the fucking money. It’s complicated, but it’s not.”

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Get Better, from Re-Arrange Us. (For Pat D.)

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Nice mix of songs that are 2 minutes and 42 seconds long. Including classics like There She Goes, What She Said, Echos Myron and Lovely Rita, among others. (via Wired, Wired’s playlist)

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Merge is giving away The Rosebuds remix album, Sweet Beats, Troubled Sleep (Night of the Furies Remixed).
“Night of the Furies contained songs of despair and loss that roused friends of the band to present them with personal reconstructions of these dark tales. The resulting assortment of dance tunes and lullabies delighted Ivan and Kelly, and [...]

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An Illustrated Discography of The Smiths and Morrissey.

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“Last.fm announced today that Portishead’s long-awaited new album, Third, will be made exclusively available on the site, in its entirety, for free from April 21, a week before its official release.”
Hasn’t everyone that wanted to hear it already heard it, since it leaked on to the interwebs about a month ago?

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“Deschanel, who plays keyboards and sometimes drums in the band, joins Fresh Air to discuss her no-longer-secret life as a singer and songwriter, and the new album from She and Him, titled Volume One. “

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RCRDLBL has a handful of free mp3 from Dirty on Purpose.

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Stumbled across a link to Huggy Bear’s early demos and Peel sessions on Idolator the other day, which made me nostalgic for this song. 1994 was a bad ass year. This clip is from a 1994 UK zine documentary “Getting Close to Nothing.”

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I’m not going to comment on this or even post a photo. Just read the article.

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Having whisked its only credible source off to the doldrums of online movie reviews, MTV lost its last semblance of legitimacy in hiding Kurt Loder from the camera. His caustic wit and unflappable charm made MTV palatable throughout its awkward teen years, but with the channel hell-bent on erasing the music video from its [...]

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3hive says of Pretty Good Dance Moves “the electronic instrumentation approximates The Postal Service while the lovely female vocals will be a warm wooby for fans of Cat Power and Bat for Lashes.” I’m wont to agree, though there’s something else I’m hearing that I can’t quite place just yet. (via 3hive)

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Via Techcrunch comes news of this bizarre sort of buzz tracking site called SongKick. They collect stats on any band on MySpace with more than 50 friends and compare the data to Amazon sales and other stuff, displaying recent blog posts about the band and fancy charts and graphs. If they integrated HypeMachine [...]

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