As my Twitter followers might now, I found out this week that King Crimson member (and Talking Heads/Bowie/NIN/Zappa collaborator) Adrian Belew is from Covington, KY. Pretty big shock, considering I try to keep a mental tally of famous musicians from here. Well, wikipedia and an online friend both pointed me to these videos of Adrian [...]

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I was a little slow to check out Wye Oak, but their new one finally roped me in. Robbie from These United States was always telling me that they’re a great band (and great people), so I knew I had to eventually listen. Glad I did. Their new record The Knot is out later this [...]

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To put “video” on the front of this post title is being a bit generous. Basically this is some halfway-decent audio with a video of the audience + stage from like 50 yards back at this past weekend’s Sasquatch festival. It’s enough to elicit a smile from Of Montreal diehards, but not enough to really [...]

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Ivana XL just posted a new demo on her Myspace from her latest recording session. She said it’s only going to be up in demo form for a little while, so I figured I’d be kooky and not rip/host the song for you to download here. If you feel like being slightly less honorable, that’s [...]

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French pop music! It’s pretty overcast here in Lexington, so I hope that wherever you are, the weather is a little more suited to this sunny tune. MP3: The Agency – Bumpers “Bumpers” was a bit of a grower for me, but I can already tell that the chorus is going to be popping up [...]

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If you’re anything like me, at first you thought the new Handsome Furs album was kind of weak. The first one was just soooo good. So you put it away and kind of forgot about it. But then about a month later, you pulled it back out and found that you loved it. Like, maybe [...]

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It looks like Denver’s Monolith Festival is heading towards greatness again this year. They’ve been releasing this year’s lineup one artist at a time through their twitter feed which is a surprisingly great way to do it. This way I’m getting one bit of good news every day or two, which has the (intended?) effect [...]

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Here’s the new glow-in-the-dark video for Patrick Wolf’s “Hard Times” off his upcoming album The Bachelor. The video reflects Patrick’s dramatic shift on this song. I just got the record, so we’ll see if the rest of it matches up to this track. I’m not completely sold on the tune, but it’s definitely hooked me [...]

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For Fishboy’s new “Nom” EP, they recorded the vocals for a few songs and passed them off to their buddies and fellow Denon-ites the Om Nom Noms to create the backing tracks. The result is pretty sweet. Head over to their Muxtape to stream three — especially check out “Bricks part 1.” Fishboy on Muxtape [...]

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