The crowd for Justice at Monolith 2008 Monolith music festival is announcing their 2009 lineup on Twitter and Facebook. So far all we’ve got to go with is Girl Talk and Starf*cker, but there are big things on the horizon. Follow @monolithfest on twitter to get updates as they’re posted.

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Apparently I missed this when it was posted to youtube a few weeks ago, but it’s too good to skip. Dent May’s uke-pop song “Howard” gets a video treatment straight out of every bad video you ever saw in the 80s and 90s. This is what a Letterman performance would look like if it was [...]

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Last year brought one of the best shows I’ve ever seen to Lexington, KY. I would say that we were lucky enough to get an appearance by the E6 Holiday Surprise tour, but with us being home to the Apples, it was kind of inevitable. Even so, I’ll still say we were darn lucky to [...]

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Almost lost it last night when the camera panned over and we realized that Tom Hanks was playing himself on last night’s SNL Celebrity Jeopardy. It was a star studded night of guest appearances ranging from Paul Rudd and Anne Hathaway playing violins in the background of the last skit to Tracy Morgan giving a [...]

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Yesterday I was talking up Mystery Team to my roommate when I realized I’d never even seen the trailer. I watched the first four minutes when they were online, but that seems to have been taken down since then. But it turns out that the trailer is actually better than the first few minutes (which [...]

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Stephen Malkmus played this new jam a few days ago in Portland. Sounds more like Face the Truth than Real Emotional Trash, which is kind of a good thing. So far we’re going with “Senator” as a working title, based on the line “I know what the Senator wants,” which appears a couple times in [...]

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Well, my 16-year-old self and current age self just had a weird alternate reality moment of simultaneous enjoyment. The cover sounds good, but in no way should Rivers ever be allowed to have both hands free during a song — oddest hand gestures this side of amateur karaoke. Still, not too bad. Wish they’d strayed [...]

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The first time I saw Bishop Allen (back in 2004, literally a week or two after starting this blog) they played two covers: the Modern Lovers’ “Roadrunner” as a soundcheck and the Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer” in their regular set. Since then I’ve seen the play exactly zero (0) covers live. For that reason I [...]

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Pitchfork’s staying strong this year with a very solid lineup. The organizers padded out the lineup with biggies like the Flaming Lips and Grizzly Bear, now they’re filling it in with… more really strong bands. Final Fantasy, Cymbals Eat Guitars, the Thermals, Killer Whales, Bowerbirds and Michael Columbia have been added to an already fantastic [...]

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