I won’t lie, I was a bit confused when my friend Jay came to me this past winter and asked if I’d heard the Kaiser Chiefs song Vending Machine. After a bit of Googling and thought, it was quickly discovered that the Kaiser Chiefs once recorded under the name Parva (and before that, Runston Parva). [...]

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I was once told by a reader of this blog that I have a “healthy obsession with Robert Schneider.” Which, I suppose, is a good thing. Recently I’ve been browsing through some old E6 files and online magazine clippings in order to both satisfy my E6 hunger, but also to provide some good content to [...]

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So I was hired yesterday at Baskin Robbins, much to my happiness. I started today, which partly explains the fact that I have yet to post. Work was cool and I very easily picked up on what and what not to do. It seems pretty fun and the people there are really nice. Hopefully I’ll [...]

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From Pitchfork
On Monday, CBGB owner Hilly Kristal announced very, very preliminary plans for a 30-date series of fundraising gigs in an attempt to save the venerable New York institution, said a report in Billboard. The club’s landlord, the nonprofit Bowery Residents Committee, wants to more than double the rent that CBGB currently pays. Kristal says [...]

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In the newest Architecture in Helsinki newsletter, Cameron and the rest of the gang recapped their Australian tour in support of their newest album, In Case We Die. I don’t suppose that you’ve forgotten, but I rather liked that album. Anyways, they’re resting up before the start of their North American tour, [...]

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Remember, that cool Canadian band The Lovely Feathers? Well, I do. I’ve been emailing them off and on since I published that blurb on them. Over the course of our converstions, I realized that they had a pretty good perspective on the state of modern music. So I posed a couple questions about America’s perception [...]

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I’ve been listening to a lot of the folk section of indie music. Some of which I have talked about on here, but who have new albums coming out soon (such as Phosphorescent). Others I haven’t gotten around to mentioning, but will be doing so shortly (like Langhorne Slim). Something about the music that’s tied [...]

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>>Today I was bored, so I bought the domain www.youaintnopicasso.com What does this mean for the site? Absolutely nothing. If any of you bloggers out there are looking for a way to add fake credibility to your blog, Host Way will get you your domain name for only $7 a year. This marks the first [...]

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