So, there are rumors of a Feelies reunion floating around out there, but it won’t be the line up that wrote, recorded, and performed Crazy Rhythms. Still, with Glenn Mercer and Bill Million performing together for the first time in 17 years, it could be interesting. Crazy Rhythms is one of my favorite records of [...]

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Lily Allen recently introduced me to The Whip. Gotta love that girl.
The track has already received the remix treatment from a variety of folks, including labelmates, Crookers.
The Whip - Trash (Crookers remix)

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From a commenter:
“this is my favvvies song atm
my dad used to play it in the car when i was ikkle
now im 15, and i jus cant get enuff of this song man!!!
lovin the oldies XD”
Amusingly, I saw Pulp 15 years ago. I suppose the commenter was just a zygote at that time. For [...]

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The man is such a bad ass.

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“Joe welcomes Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields, who performs “The Nun’s Litany” from their new album Distortion and talks to Joe about recording the album, his ambition to do 50 successful Hollywood musicals and silent movie scoring. Tune in on Tuesday, March 4th for another song from Stephin Merritt and the second half of [...]

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I really like She & Him. I know, it makes no sense at all, but I’m not going to try and figure it out. Something about the album very much reminds me of Madeleine Peyroux’s Dreamland, which I also liked and never figured out why. Sometimes, I guess you just have to accept [...]

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A lot has happened in the world of Canadian music since The Stills’ well received debut record and abysmal follow-up. Will the 3rd album be the charm or the final nail in the coffin? Nice to see them on Arts & Crafts, regardless. (swiped from QuarterlifeParty)

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A fellow by the name of Stewart Smith used Applesoft II and a 1979 Apple ][+ with 48K of RAM to program an amazing video for the song “Jed’s Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)” off of Grandaddy’s lovely 2000 release, The Sophtware Slump. The V2 label retroactively signed a contract with Smith and made his [...]

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Kate Nash and political troubadour Billy Bragg teamed up at the Shockwave’s NME Awards for a medley of her hit single “Foundations” and his 25-year-old signature song “A New England.” It’s an odd pairing both on paper and live, evidently. I must say Kate Nash looks even cuter here than she does in her videos, [...]

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Listening to the Red House Painters’ brilliant album, Ocean Beach, I was reminded of how much I liked the song Summer Dress, which got me thinking about other “Dress” related songs I’ve liked, which of course reminded me of the best “Dress” song, My Favourite Dress, from The Wedding Present. A song David Gedge [...]

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It got awfully quiet around here as of late. Where’d everyone go? Anyhow, this isn’t music related, but it’s entertaining if you haven’t seen it yet. Michel Gondry “swedes” the trailer for his own film, “Be Kind Rewind.” Gondry singing the Ghostbusters theme is classic.

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Guilty pleasure: After watching American Idol’s current crop of ladies go down in flames last night, I realized not one of them can even remotely touch the glory of Pat Benatar in her heyday. Even when these girls try to rock out, it’s just kind of sad and puny. I suppose technically some of them [...]

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It’s been a few years since I’d seen Space Ghost. I’d almost forgotten how random and funny it was (thanks KFL). This clip features Bjork as Space Ghost’s wife and special guest Thom Yorke. Space Ghost has just asked Moltar to make 100 copies of the “new Radiohead cd” when he sees Thom on the [...]

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A: It does indeed sound like Spoon. Must be something in the water in Austin.
To be fair, they’ve sounded the same for years. Here’s Hey Sweet Lady, from their 2006 album, Trying to Never Catch Up. I think they had an album before that as well, which we got as a [...]

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I’ve always preferred this version, which also happens to feature in Chris Petit’s Radio On.
Speaking of Radio On, here’s a promo snippet:
“RADIO ON was stunningly photographed in luminous black and white monochrome by Martin Schaefer (Wenders’ cinematographer), and driven by a startling soundtrack (Bowie, Kraftwerk, Lene Lovich, Ian Dury, Wreckless Eric and more). Petit’s anti-road [...]

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