From the looks of this song, Man Man‘s new album is going to be spectacular. MP3: Man Man – Engwish Bwudd I’m of the mind that the inclusion of bits of traditional songs can spice up songs and even be a little cute. This song is no exception. The chorus (if you can call it [...]

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From Matador’s newsletter: While venues and dates are still being confirmed, we can announce that Belle & Sebastian and The New Pornographers will be touring together in early ’06 throughout North America, the former in support of the forthcoming ‘The Life Pursuit’, the latter behind the consensus pick for the album of 2006, ‘Twin Cinema’. [...]

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Getting Kevin from Of Montreal to take part in something for my website was something of a dream come true. Not only are they one of my favorite bands, but they’ve always seemed to be one of the most professional in the spectrum of indie music. Kevin’s music is rarely life-changingly serious, but there’s no [...]

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This is off the new To: Elliott, From: Portland album which features artists from the Portland area covering songs by the late musician Elliott Smith. Here’s the one that I’m sure will interest most of you. MP3: The Decemberists – Clementine (Elliott Smith cover) I’d like to take this opportunity to point out how smart [...]

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Today I received an email from KEXP. I found this odd because, a.) I’d never gotten one from them before, though I’m on their mailing list; b.) it was from their dj; and c.) it pointed me to a place where I could read about the mis-management and salary controversy going on in their establishment. [...]

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QUICK NOTE: This is not the last Mixmas theme. Due to my miscounting, someone turning in an extra one, and ‘Mixmas’ not being a real holiday – we have 13 days instead of 12. However, I’m leaving it as day 13 of 12 just because I’m stubborn. But we have a great theme today and [...]

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Again, I didn’t even know this song existed. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs covering the Liars seems just crazy enough to work, doesn’t it? Apparently this isn’t exactly a rare track, but I’m sure that there’s at least one of you out there that hasn’t heard it yet. And if you’ve had this since before it [...]

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Bishop Allen is the reason that we have You Aint No Picasso. Yes, we can take that literally and say that I stole the name from one of their unreleased songs; but there’s something more important there. Bishop Allen got me into independent music. I downloaded their album Charm School in early spring of 2004 [...]

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Let my preface this by saying that I’m not a huge Mates of State fan. I like their studio work okay; it’s just that when I saw them live…they were kinda boring. Granted, Bishop Allen did open for them, so my excitement had kinda peaked. But still, I was let down. Now having said that, [...]

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