It’s tradition that at midnight on New Year’s Eve to give a smooch to someone close by. Since I’m pretty sure that Jenny Lewis is tops on most of my male reader’s lists for people they’d like to share that smooch with, I figured this would at least be somewhat of a fitting treat for [...]

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The Melody Function are from Lexington, Kentucky. This means that I’ve had the fortune of catching their concerts many times (often for free!). MP3: Melody Function – Roucoulement When I replied to TMF’s email, I described the song with a word that apparently was exactly what they were shooting for. That adjective was ‘spiffy.’ I [...]

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Page France is a band that I’ve championed almost as long as YANP has been around. However, with the release of Hello, Dear Wind they’ve blown up so much that they’re finally getting the coverage that they deserve. It’s made a lot of year-end lists and rightly so. Here are two of my favorite songs [...]

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My friend Cory gave me a ride home from my other friend’s house (hi Kara!) today, and on the way back I noticed that he’d bought I Wanna Be Well by The Lil’ Hospital. We’d been talking about them for a week or two, but I had no idea his love for them was deep [...]

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I first heard this song when I downloaded a bootleg of The Flaming Lips performing at Big Day Out in Sydney a year or two ago. I quickly fell in love with it, but it wasn’t until this week that I thought to check out the original. I had known that the Lips worked with [...]

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From Tapes ‘n Tapes‘ mailing list: (not familiar with them? try this song) MP3: Tapes ‘n Tapes – Cowbell Minneapolis band Tapes ‘n Tapes are heading east next Wednesday, following the path of THE LOON. They will be playing the following shows along the way: 1.4.06 KING CLUB, Madison, WI w/ Lorenzo’s Music, Fire Falls [...]

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Spencer Krug’s other, other band has been getting a lot of attention lately. Sunset Rubdown signed to Absolutely Kosher for their US distribution, and are expected to have their next work out on Canadian label Global Symphonic within the next month. One kind reader sent in a couple songs from Sunset Rubdown’s Snake’s Got a [...]

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My friends’ band, Manchuria, will be playing their first hometown show in a while. It’s December 30th (that’s Friday) at Swanson Reed Contemporary 638 E. Market, Louisville, KY. It starts at 7pm and is free. To my knowledge, it’s also all ages. Also, one of the other bands features ex-members of My Morning Jacket and [...]

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My friend Greg and I had a nice talk about bands from the Dayton area (he’s a native and I have internet friends who live there and frequently force me to listen to their local bands). Captain of Industry quickly became the center of our conversation. I was pretty proud of myself, except for pluralizing [...]

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