Looks like the Beastie Boys’ third album Check Your Head is next in line to get the remastering/reissue treatment. It’s coming out in early April on vinyl and CD, but you can hold yourself over until then by watching this old video of the Beastie Boys on Arsenio Hall (they’re also joined by one of [...]

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Anyone still in town during spring break should come down to the best show of the semester so far. Crystal Stilts are playing with Women tonight at Al’s Bar. Mon Mar 16 – Women w/Crystal Stilts @ Al’s – All Ages, 9pm, $5 I’ll be there snapping some shots before jumping on a plane Tuesday [...]

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Wale just announced his new album title in the manner which I’m becoming accustomed to hearing new band news… on Twitter. Actually, Wale pulled a new one and announced it via a photo of shoes. The album, out this summer, should have “Chillin” as the first single. MP3: Wale – Nightlife ft. Tre and Young [...]

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Yesterday around 4pm Mark aka Vandaveer walked into CD Central, my place of employment, and told me he was playing a show in a few short hours down at the Dame. Not a whole lot of notice, huh? Well it looks like my week of live shows turned into a week straight of live shows. [...]

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I don’t know if it makes sense to non-Unicorns obsessives how much I’ve waited to hear something just like Clues, the band that joins the Unicorns’ Alden Penner with Bredan Reed (ex-Arcade Fire). “Perfect Fit,” when played live, sounds a great deal like early Unicorns stuff, which delights me to no end. However, this studio [...]

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Last night’s Tracy Morgan-hosted SNL was a bit more on the miss side than the hit I hoped it’d be. It was ok, but I’ve grown to love Tracy so much on 30 Rock that I figured this would be the best SNL of the season. Similarly, the first Brian Fellow’s Safari Planet in forever [...]

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Totally forgot about the awesome email the They Shoot Music guys sent me earlier this week. They recorded a session with Islands while the Canadian group was touring Europe. The result is two acoustic songs, “Pieces of You” off last year’s The Arm’s Way and “I Won’t Share You,” a Smiths cover that I’ve never [...]

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I’m not going to lie to you people in an attempt to maintain a cool image (that possibility went out the window the moment I first started this site) — I totally dig Franz Ferdinand’s new record Tonight: Franz Ferdinand. After falling for their debut album, I soon got bored by their subsequent releases. Seeing [...]

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Woo! St. Vincent will be making a stop in Lexington, KY along her month-long tour in support of Actor. I’ll be catching her at SXSW next week, so look for photos and a review of that here. Oh man, add the Bonnaroo show to the mix and it looks like I’ll get to see her [...]

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