Here’s a tip: if two Elephant 6 bands are ever on a bill together, you can pretty much bet someone’s joining someone on stage. This time around it was Robert joining Of Montreal to cover the Apples in Stereo’s “Seems So.”

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I don’t really know how to explain this one, but I can start at the beginning. I’m an only child. I didn’t have any older brothers or sisters to get hand-me-down music from. So for the longest time I didn’t really listen to music. It wasn’t until around my seventeenth birthday that I got bit [...]

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This was one of the weirder (better) moments of Bonnaroo. I went from wondering what was inside the Pancake Mountain tent to holding a microphone for them in one short day. Who better to point my mic at than one Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips? But my buddies got the real treat. Good friends [...]

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Tomorrow will be the You Aint No Picasso Anniversary Event (code for Matt Jordan’s 21st Birthday Party) at the Dame. Page France Petticoat, Petticoat Noisycrane $5 – 9PM – 21+

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After not having read their contract too closely, Sean from Tullycraft awoke one morning to find their song “Sweet” used to sell food. What’s worse than having your song in a commercial? Not getting paid for it. From Tullycraft.com It was brought to my attention a little over a week ago that the Tullycraft song [...]

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The new John Vanderslice record is really good. I wrote and rewrote that beginning a few times before I went with the simplest way to put it. Emerald City is just the pre-birthday* kickoff I needed. Song swapped by request. MP3: John Vanderslice – White Dove John Vanderslice – Kookaburra On the first listen, “Kookaburra” [...]

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Apparently The Bicycles’ fantastic, wonderful album The Good, the Bad and the Cuddly is getting a wider release. I kid you not when I say that this is one of my favorite albums of the past two years. It’s intelligent twee pop that just grabs you and refuses to let go… but in a cute [...]

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Awww yeah!

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I pick the worst times to get into bands. I literally decided to check out the Smashing Pumpkins the day they broke up. I missed the Unicorns on their last tour because I was still letting their album sink in and thought “I’ll catch ‘em next time.” And more recently, I missed Tom Waits in [...]

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