ABC has a great clip of John Vanderslice and his Magik*Magik orchestra playing “Too Much Time” in rehearsals. John talks a bit about reworking and reimagining his songs, then they cut to a great reworking.

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These United States have a lot going on in ’09. They’re making appearances at tons of rising festivals (Monolith & Forecastle), have a new album finished and ready to release in a couple months and now have recorded a cover of Bob Dylan’s “To Ramona” for a french compilation called Dylan Mania. MP3: These United [...]

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Now, don’t make too much of this, but Paul McCartney said in a recent interview that if MGMT were to call him up and ask to work with him… he’d be into it. “”We need to talk about it,” he told ZoeGriffin.co.uk, “I can’t call [MGMT]. If they called me, I’d say, ‘How did you [...]

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After spending a little while with the new Intelligence record, I can say that I love it as much as everyone else apparently loves Wavves. It doesn’t have the immediate grabbers that Deuteronomy did, but it’s still the superior record. It’s one that’s best listened to from start to finish, but I’ll still cut out [...]

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Like I said last time I wrote about White Denim’s newest, Chris from Gorilla vs Bear’s enthusiasm is starting to rub off on me. Now “I Start to Run” is streaming over at a UK label’s site, so we can all get excited. “I Start To Run” sounds like it could very easily be in [...]

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Comedy Central has ordered 13 new episodes. “Good news everyone!”

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I can’t make it out to John Vanderslice’s show at the Southgate House tonight, but that’s no reason why you should miss it! JV is all kinds of a great musician and even more kinds of a great human being. So do yourself a favor and go listen to him playing songs from his beautiful [...]

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Man. Grizzly Bear is just the gift that keeps on giving. In what could be the only way to top the Beach House collab I saw at SXSW, they brought out Feist to sing with them on “Service Bell” and “Two Weeks” at their Toronto show. Luckily for you and I who weren’t in attendance, [...]

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Disclaimer: that’s probably not Eric Harris in that photo. It’s just a still from the movie In true Elephant 6 fashion Eric Harris wears a lot of hats in his musical career. He’s drummed in the Olivia Tremor Control, Circulatory System, played with Elf Power and now has co-directed the new E6-packed film “Major Organ [...]

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