You know how in some movies they’ll show the young female protagonist dancing around alone in her room. It’s usually to something quirky and the dance moves are always the kind you’d never want to do in public. It’s kind of a shortcut to get the audience to quickly love and identify with that character. [...]

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Jason Lytle was really great at day two of our Hot Freaks! party at SXSW. I don’t believe I’ve ever listened to a Grandaddy album or any of his solo work, but I really enjoyed his set at SXSW. The people I was standing by were kind of curious why it wasn’t just billed as [...]

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My mom studied under WTWTA creator Maurice Sendak in art school, so it’s no surprise that I was raised on his popular children’s book. In fact, judging by how many WTWTA tattoos I see out there, I guess everyone my age was. And now it’s almost time for us to enjoy the live action Where [...]

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Louisville’s Forecastle Fest has just announced the headliners for their 8th annual event. The festival will take place July 10th-12th at the Riverfront Belvedere. This year they’ve kicked it up a bit and will be having (in order of awesome) The Black Keys, the Avette Brothers, the Black Crowes and two nights of Widespread Panic [...]

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It looks like my biggest problem at Bonnaroo 2009 is going to be having to pick between fantastic acts. What with the dozens of my favorite bands, it’s going to be a fun but hectic weekend. Now they’ve made it even more so with the addition of a few more bands and the comedy tent. [...]

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This South By Southwest, I decided to keep a little notebook full of things I noticed during shows so that I could later relate them to you better than if I had been relying on my memory alone. It’s helped me out of a few tight spots — I forgot what Mariah Carey song Fol [...]

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Beach House was the most surprisingly fantastic show of SXSW for me. I say surprising not because I was literally surprised to find myself enjoying their show, but because I can’t name but a handful of their songs. I’ve listened to their albums a couple times, but I can’t say that I’ve studied their material [...]

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Last night the Museum of Modern Art in New York debuted this new video by Department of Eagles, followed by a performance by the band. I couldn’t be there, and you probably couldn’t either, but now we can enjoy the fruits of a lot of people’s labor. The video’s fantastic, a great compliment to the [...]

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I didn’t know when I touched down in Austin that I’d find out about a great new band and see them twice within the week, but that’s exactly what happened with Pete and the Pirates. After an all-too-short WOXY session, I got to see the band a second time when they played the Filter/Blackberry party [...]

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