In a perfect world I would have been able to go to Nashville to watch Of Montreal; however it wasn’t to be. But this video surfaced from their performance, showing the band covering Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song,” so that’s nice. And yes, I’m still waiting for that recording of their New Year’s Eve show where [...]

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The cover of the FotC notebook Now that we’ve all streamed the first episode of season two of Flight of the Conchords, I figured it’d be great to give out some FotC stuff. I’ve been given two “prize packs” to give away filled with goodies. Each prize pack includes: + Season 1 of Flight of [...]

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I was thinking about Tomlab last night and decided to go home and find out what the label had been up to since last I checked. I decided to give Skeleton’s new album Money a spin for a bit and enjoyed what I heard. Warning: I’ve been on a Deerhoof/Animal Collective kick for about two [...]

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Slowly the covers from Of Montreal’s performance on New Year’s Eve are starting to trickle in. The one I was most looking forward to hearing was their take on Caribou’s “Melody Day,” one of the best songs of 2007. In addition to being a great choice, it’s noteworthy because Of Montreal added Ahmed Gallab as [...]

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I’d imagine that the Daytrotter ranch is probably the only place that could come close to fitting all of Dark Meat in for a session and have it be anywhere near comfortable. Late last year Daytrotter posted the Dark Meat session which consists of just two new songs. Below is the first, along with the [...]

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Alternate gig poster by “Freedom” of Collected Animals In my post-Merriweather Post Pavillion excitement I was looking around for some other Animal collective goodies. Upon exploring the Collected Animals message board, I found out that there was a recording of the first Animal Collective show I ever saw. WRFL brought in AC to play a [...]

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I’ve been a Paul Rudd fan for a while, but seeing him steal the show in Knocked Up solidified my devotion to him. Against all odds, I enjoyed the hell out of Role Models too. Plus, the movie’s got Jason Segel and Andy Samberg, so those are just more hooks into my attention. However, I’m [...]

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Me and Clem Snide go way back. The first time I ever set foot in the Dame was in 2005 to see a Clem Snide concert with Marbles opening. Robert Schneider (of the Apples in Stereo, aka “Marbles”) snuck my underage self into the bar by putting me on the guest list as “Matt Schneider.” [...]

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I sure did take a while to post on Madeline, but I’d at least like to think that my timing was appropriate. Madeline will be playing at Al’s Bar on January 10th. She also posted a message on her Myspace page that anyone who wants to make up fliers or convince a lot of friends [...]

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