So Josh Schwartz’s (The OC, Chuck, Gossip Girl) new show Rockville, CA looks about as boring as his other shows. Even my Gossip Girl-loving girlfriend doesn’t want to watch it — which is a shame. I’d much rather occasionally catch an episode of a crappy show about something I can relate to (watching bands) than [...]

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Oh hey. I know I’m about a month late to the party, but would you mind terribly if I had some of the punch? Micachu and the Shapes have been blowing up all over the place, but I just got around to downloading the album this past week. It’s funny; only on the internet in [...]

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Just a quick reminder that These United States are wrapping up their national tour this Saturday with a show here in Lexington. It’s there that they’ll be announcing the winner to the contest to name their new van. I thought I’d take this chance to remind you of that in case you wanted to win [...]

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MP3: Slow Club – Me and You This video is a little old, but it’s new to me. I first fell for “Me and You” halfway through last year, but just now found the video. It’s a great example of what you can do with a great song, loads of friends and a skating warehouse [...]

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Here’s the new video for Man Man’s “Rabbit Habits,” starring Fred Armisen, Matt the Ice Cream Man, and Charlyne Yi (better known as Michael Cera’s girlfriend or that stoned girl in Knocked Up). It’s a tale of love, bad magic and werewolves. So really, it’s no weirder than a Man Man concert.

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Hands and Knees’ album Et Tu, Fluffy? looks like Funkadelic’s One Nation Under a Groove as done by the stuffed animals of the Boy Least Likely To’s world. So naturally I had to immediately listen to it. I mean, how often does that visual come along? It sounds, however, completely unlike either band, but still [...]

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Via Optical Atlas The Circulatory System have announced that their second album Signal Morning will be released on August 4, 2009. I loved hearing their songs at the Elephant6 concert in Lexington, so I’m looking forward to hearing the new material!

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Lately I’ve been having a little more time to devote to digging through my piles of promo CDs sent to me by bands I don’t know. It’s an embarrassingly high stack that I wish I had time to properly attend to. But I’m finding a lot of great new bands, including the fuzzy wonder of [...]

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Echo and the Bunnymen are one of dozens of fantastic bands playing the festival There are few things I love more than giving away something truly fantastic on You Ain’t No Picasso. And when it comes to fantastic, does anything beat some no-strings-attached tickets to the second year of All Points West?? I think not. [...]

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