Michael Nau (ex-Page France) will be playing under the name the Cotton Jones Basket Ride today in Lexington. The show is happening at Al’s Bar at 6th and Limestone. It’s all ages and $3. Doors are at 8:30. Cody from the band Noisycrane will be opening with a solo performance.
MP3: The Cotton Jones Basket Ride […]

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Pitchfork posted all the details you could ever want/need about the new Sigur Ros LP today. And now we can do more than read about it: Sigur Ros have put up their new song “Gobbledigook” for download. I’m unfortunately at work, so I can’t sample it just yet, but it’s nice to know I have […]

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Northwest twee-poppers Tullycraft have announced a smattering of west coast dates for this summer. Along the way they’ll run into such YANP-favorites as Pants Yell! and the Besties. If that doesn’t make for an adorable pairing, I’m not sure what would. Tullycraft are responsible for one of my favorite records last year (Every Scene Needs […]

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I don’t remember how I came to possess Jason the Swamp’s “Mice in the Mouse Organ” EP, but I’m thankful to whoever sent it to me. It’s lo-fi Panda Bear meets the Microphones.
MP3: Jason the Swamp - Red Flannel Soup
If Noah Lennox aka Panda Bear was told to recreate the same vibrant beauty of […]

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Mad crazy sloppy thanks go to Discobelle for reminding me how great Wale is. Chris drug me to one of his shows at Noise Pop in San Fran and I enjoyed his stuff but couldn’t really make out any lyrics or anything. Since then I’ve slowly amassed a few of his tunes and think he […]

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So it turns out that Ratatat are super awesome. Who knew? Oh right, we figured that out a long time ago. Well their third LP (charmingly titled LP3) is coming out in six weeks or so but has freshly leaked to the internets. This trippy video compliments the nintendo-meets-Caribbean stylings of this new tune. If […]

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Casper and the Cookies are ready to rock their hometown
After weeks of waiting, the lineup for the 2008 Athens Popfest is here. It’s packed with heavy live favorites like Dark Meat, the Circulatory System and Fishboy, but also crammed with up-and-commers like Lexington’s own Noisycrane! Should be a fun time. Now I just need to […]

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It’s 8am and I’ve got a pen and paper out to plan my weekend a month from now. Why? Because the Bonnaroo schedule just got posted. I’ll be putting up a loose schedule of mine later today. Let me know who you’ll be hitting up, too!
Update Sweet! Sigur Ros has a two hour slot late […]

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