As long as I’m sharing some local love with the Scourge of the Sea/Petticoat Petticoat tour dates, why not make it a two-fer? Ideal Free Distribution will be releasing their self titled album on Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records in a few short days–December 12 to be exact. I figured you might enjoy a [...]

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Two of Lexington’s own are going out on a quick tour at the start of the new year. Scourge of the Sea will be shacking up (proverbially) with Petticoat Petticoat on a half-month tour across the east coast. MP3: Scourge of the Sea – Smitten Kitten 11/30 1:00P WOXY–Cincinati, OH 12/2 IOTA w/ The Tarbox [...]

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Apollo Sunshine recorded a song with Mazarin and posted it for your Thanksgiving enjoyment. It’s a cover of “Your Advice” by Bloodfeathers. Get it from Mazarin’s myspace Happy late Thanksgiving! I’m back in Elizabethtown and blogging from my dad’s computer. Fun! 

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Happy Thanksgiving, all! The other day I got some wonderful stuff to be thankful for at CD Central and I figured I’d highlight some of it today. The first is an EP by Magnolia Electric Co that had this sweet Warren Zevon cover. MP3: Magnolia Electric Co – Werewolves of London (Warren Zevon) Jason and [...]

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Baby Calendar Because I chose New York’s slowest hamburger joint, I arrived at the Happy Happy Birthday To Me showcase just in time to catch Poison Control Center sliding around on the floor for their last song. Bummer. I’d heard such good things about them, but missed it all. I didn’t have long to mourn, [...]

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Looks like iPod has decided to use Prototypes’ “Who’s Gonna Sing?” in their new iPod shuffle commercial. I guess they got the tip that Prototypes are the “biggest band in the world.” Download the MOV here

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In celebration of something that now escapes me–maybe because their new album, Derdang, Derdang is really good?–Archie Bronson Outfit have recorded a cover of Wanda Jackson’s “Funnel of Love” to be used on their “Cherry Lips” single. MP3: Archie Bronson Outfit – Funnel of Love (Wanda Jackson) Cue the fuzz. No, not the police–though they [...]

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I am the king of five months ago. I hadn’t seen this video until I was in a hotel room in LA, and I’ve been hooked every since. So on the off chance that any of the rest of you don’t frequent MTV that often either, here’s a video that just screams cuteness.

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Of Montreal will be touring in support of their new album, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, through most of 2007. The band apparently plans to ramp up their already involved live performance. Said Kevin in Of Montreal’s press release, “We’re definitely going to do something a little more elaborate this time, as far as [...]

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