To keep a long story short, You Ain’t No Picasso is basically here because of a Helio Sequence show I saw in 2004. It was the first real club show I saw and it inspired me to take a few risks. A huge part of the reason it had such an impact was the insane [...]

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Chris Rock at Bonnaroo 2008 Just thought I’d take a second to say if you haven’t seen Chris Rock’s new HBO special “Kill the Messenger,” do yourself a favor and seek it out. The special has a ton of stuff he did at Bonnaroo, so that’s an added bonus for anyone who saw him warm [...]

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Thanks to hearsay for the MP3s. Here’s MGMT’s performance on KCRW. It’s the one with the cover of that 80s song I’ve never heard in my life (Laid Back’s “Roger”). It’s worth it just for that, but the version of “Electric Feel” is fantastic. Links removed by request MGMT on KCRW 9.17.08 MP3: MGMT – [...]

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The Ideal Free Distribution are streaming three new songs over on their myspace page. “William Buss,” “Stars” and “Trip Inside” are all off their upcoming record Then We Were Older, which is out 10/13. You can preorder it from that myspace page. Stream the Ideal Free Distribution’s new songs Also if you can get your [...]

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Casper and the Cookies have wrapped up recording their new album. I thought I’d remind everyone how great it’s going to be by reposting this new song they played (with Poison Control Center) at Daytrotter last year. MP3: CATC – Little Lady Larva (with Poison Control Center; Daytrotter session) They played this last time I [...]

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I finally saw Burn After Reader last night (eh…) and am glad to have another Pitt film to look forward to. I’ve heard a few derailing words about this film, but the trailers still have my hopes up. Don’t let me down, Fincher!

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And this tshirt! (But unfortunately not this dog) My general rule of thumb when deciding to run a contest is this: would I be excited to win this prize? And in the case of this prize, uh, yeah I’d love to win this. Unfortunately I’m out of the running, so it’s up to one of [...]

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Here is the hilariously NSFW, slightly racist, redonkulous video for The Great Schlep, a web site that encourages young Jewish people to visit their grandparents in Florida and encourage them to vote for Barack Obama. Though I was born in Flordia, sadly I’m neither Jewish, nor do I have any grandparents there. Oh well!

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Sometimes my brain operates at a Curb Your Enthusiasm level of awkwardness. For instance, I occasionally worry about how I’ll be introduced to music because I’d later have to answer the question “how did you get into that band” with an embarrassing story. I guess it’s similar to how I recognized John Vanderslice in the [...]

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