When I was on the speech team in high school, my coach was all about the peaks and valleys. It was important to have the build up and release of emotion in the course of your selection, or else it wasn’t even worth performing. Similarly, each song by Phoenix and the Turtle will often focus [...]

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After having an Almost Famous-esque evening with Locksley, I had one fact beaten into me: The Blue Van are the greatest band on earth. Danish quartet, The Blue Van sound like they stepped right out of the British Invasion and crossed paths with The (International) Noise Conspiracy along the way. Strangely enough, their name is [...]

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I’ve been slacking in my Locksley coverage as of late. I promised to build them up as their Lexington date approached, and I failed to do that. But here’s where I make up for it. Locksley have just started out on what I believe is their first major tour. Tomorrow they’ll be hitting up the [...]

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To sum up a load of info presented in an Asthmatic Kitty news post: a long time ago, Sufjan Stevens and John Ringhofer of HHC got together to record some of John’s songs. What they recorded is now going to made available to you, the general public, as an EP. No news on if this [...]

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So I’ve been spending the past couple days catching up on some “classics.” I bought Olivia Tremor Control’s album, Black Foliage, the other day, and have been using Brian Eno’s Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy as my biking music. So while looking back for bands I might have skipped during the formulation of my musical [...]

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The website for This Bird Has Flown, a cover album of Rubber Soul, finally has previews up. They’re only about 35sec each, but give a good sampling of each cover. Here’s one that I don’t think I’ve featured here before. MP3: Low – Nowhere Man (3.3mb) Stream some full songs on TBHF’s Myspace. EDIT: Fixed [...]

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When you think of the word ‘dangerous,’ pandas and angels aren’t usually the first things that spring to mind. However, “Dangerous” by Panda and Angel is one of the few non-terrible songs that I’ve been sent lately. Sure the lyrics are lacking, but the instrumentation is pretty well arranged. MP3: Dangerous Woolfe Christmas More info [...]

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Thanks to Brooklyn Vegan and The Decemberists Board for pointing out that Decemberists Purevolume site has three new songs on it. I’m going to have to ask you all to provide me with your opinions on them, because I have to leave like right now. Enjoy!

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At Ease has a song from the new Harry Potter movie. I never thought I would be saying those words, but it’s true. The reason this is news, is because this happens to be the same track that features Phil and Johnny of Radiohead, and Jarvis Cocker of Pulp. Head over there and grab it [...]

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