Well this one’s a mixed bag. On one hand, everything in this video looks amazing (except for Dr. Manhattan’s voice…) and completely gets me excited for the film. On the other hand, it’s bittersweet since FOX’s lawsuit has a serious possibility of derailing the current release schedule. However, the film’s done; so that means we’ll [...]

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Pepsi’s new Refresh Everything campaign features the song “Energy” by the Apples in Stereo. I’m a Coke man myself, but it’s good to see another of Robert Schneider’s songs getting international attention.

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MP3: One for the Team – Apples One for the Team is playing this Saturday Jan 3rd at Al’s Bar with the Nastys and a few other local bands. I saw OFTT open for Dressy Bessy last month and loved their set. They’re great and I can’t wait to catch them again. One for the [...]

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Swan Lake, comprised of Spencer Krug (Wolf Parade/Sunset Rubdown), Dan Bejar (New Pornographers/Destroyer) and Cary Mercer (Frog Eyes), will be releasing their second album Enemy Mine on March 24. Snakes Got a Blog tipped me off, as well as informed us that the cover album is something Mercer picked up as a painting for $25 [...]

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I finally got around to listening to RMXXOLOGY and loved most of what I heard. The one that really grabbed my ear was Peaches’ remix/contribution to Tone Loc’s love-it-or-hate-it “Wild Thing.” She does a bit of the ol’ chop ‘n screw to the song, but the best part is that she adds about 50% of [...]

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If it’s Christmas at You Ain’t No Picasso, that means it’s Mixmas! These twelve days give me a chance to turn You Ain’t No Picasso over to the musicians I cover and allow them to showcase some of their favorite songs through a themed mix. And if there’s one thing that’s always true, it’s that [...]

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Miles Eaton of the Akron/Family told Gothamist that the band are finishing up their newest reconrd on time with a Spring ’09 release. “We are finishing mastering it as we speak,” he said. “I just got off the phone with Seth, our mastering engineer, and we’re just kind of going through it and working out [...]

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Remembering that Deerhoof had a great appearance on the kid’s show Pancake Mountain led me to youtube around and see what else I could find from the show. Here’s a long clip of Japanese band Shonen Knife’s performance of “Twist Barbie.”

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This year was kind of a bum year for music. Nothing thrilled me like it had for the past four years and few new bands really stuck out. In fact, it was kind of an off year for tours as well. But in the midst of all that, I had one of the best concert [...]

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