Anyone that has ever told you that Ponytail’s show is like watching an 8-year-old on pixy stix that has inexplicably grown up listening to Deerhoof is absolutely correct. I felt like I was at some crazy slumber party, but it was completely awesome. As good as Ice Cream Spiritual is, it just makes so much [...]

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I hadn’t seen Owen Pallett since he played to about a dozen people in Cincinnati in 2006. Since then he’s expanded his reserve of songs and (exponentially?) expanded his fanbase. Other bands might have gotten jealous when they saw how excited the crowd of thousands got for this thin, sock-footed Canadian violinist, but at least [...]

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I just checked my email while listening to the Beatles’ album Revolver. Let me tell you, there’s no better music to have playing than “Good Day Sunshine” when you find out that Os Mutantes are playing within five miles of your house. MP3: Os Mutantes – Teclar Os Mutantes tour dates 08-28-09, Los Angeles California, [...]

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The monsteriest monster of them all, Jim James of My Morning Jacket Of the two recently-formed supergroups (the other being the Dead Weather), the Monsters of Folk is clearly the one I’m hoping sticks around a while. And they will be, or at least long enough to bring their show on the road for a [...]

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Of Montreal’s video for “Mingusings” is totally weird and totally rad. It’s clips of one of the “ninjas” from Of Montreal’s stage show (played by Kevin’s brother David Barnes) running wild all over the globe. He’s a thief, a rogue and a pretty darn good volleyball player.

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Nick has been occasionally twittering about the recording, mastering and subway-losing of his next album Vapours for a while now, so it’s great to finally get to hear something from it. Plus, Jamie is back with the group (at least for the recording) and you know he had to be thrilled to get to play/program [...]

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This Hidden Cameras song is just blowing my mind. I won’t lie, I was worried that this upcoming record would be their first misstep (based on nothing other than my own fears), but the first two songs we’ve heard have been fantastic. In this video, Joel Gibb leads the Hidden Cameras out to a sunny [...]

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I think that out of all the bands I really didn’t know that much about, Bowerbirds impressed me the most at Pitchfork. They and Japandroids probably tie on that one (oops! spoiler alert: Japandroids were good). Bowerbirds were really suited to the third stage. Not to say that they should have been delegated to the [...]

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Maybe it’s because they’re still so young that I don’t expect too much from them, but The Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s show at Pitchfork really impressed me — the second time this year the band’s done so. I think the biggest difference is that this time POBPAH’s lead singer Kip seemed a bit [...]

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