I’m mentally preparing a mix to serve as road music on my voyage down to Bonnaroo. I’m pretty much full of energetic driving songs (“Roadrunner” by The Modern Lovers, for example) and need some more beautiful, calm ones for the long stretches of country. But look what song fell into my lap today: the title [...]

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After Wednesday’s Rufus Wainwright post, I decided I just had to find an excuse to post Joseph Arthur’s “Can’t Exist.” Then I remembered that I don’t need to find an excuse to post good music on my own web site. Strange how that works out. MP3: Joseph Arthur – Can’t Exist “Can’t Exist” sounds like [...]

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Before I get too much into Sure Juror, let me announce the winners of the Guillemots contest for tickets to see them at the Bowery and their EP “From the Cliffs” on vinyl. Ellen Rhudy has won the tickets; so if you see anyone who looks really cool at their show on the 9th, it’s [...]

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What is? Why, reading other blogs, of course! Here are some things which have been posted everywhere today, and that I highly suggest checking out: The extended Jack White Coca Cola commercial – This thing won’t leave my brain. Download the song from that ad at Thighs Wide Shut. The new Sufjan track “Dear Mr. [...]

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The new Futureheads song “Skip to the End” just got videoized: watch it on Yahoo. MP3: The Futureheads – Skip To The End Vagrant Records and Startime International will be releasing the Futurehead’s sophomore album, News And Tributes, on June 13th. Here’s the track list as it stands: News and Tributes Yes/No Cope Fallout Skip [...]

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Everyone in the world loves the new Neko Case album, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood. That’s no exaggeration, either. I’ve heard that some couples out there got married solely based on a mutual appreciation of the album. It’s for this reason that I’m even more ashamed to have been so late to hear it. But [...]

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Recent Barsuk signees, Smoosh, have just released a song from their new album, Free To Stay. The album, which is due out June 30th, features Cloe (12) on drums and Asya (14) on keyboards. I hate to sound old, but between them and the Arctic Monkeys, suddenly I feel like I should be in an [...]

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MP3: Starlight Mints – Seventeen Devils When he was twenty years old and fronting his first band, Allan Vest of Starlight Mints was told that he was “vocally emulating Dinosaur Jr. too much.” Ordinarily this wouldn’t be of note, except that it happened to come from Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips. “It pissed me [...]

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Apparently Masters of the Hemisphere are doing three reunion shows with Bugs Eat Books and Je Suis France. Thankfully, one of those takes place in good ol’ Lexington, Kentucky. If you’re in town Friday night, I highly suggest you check it out. They’re playing at Underlying Themes with Bugs Eat Books, Je Suis France and [...]

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