Well, if you were looking for some sad news today, look no further. The New York pop group the Besties announced on their Myspace page that they’ll be calling it quits after two final shows. Major bummer. In addition to being cool dudes, they put on quite a show and record some fine tunes. They’ll [...]

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As you may have heard, the Flaming Lips will be doing a complete cover album of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. We’ve heard them cover Pink Floyd before, but here’s a new one that they played during their session at KCRW. Sounds great! Watch the Flaming Lips cover Pink Floyd’s “Eclipse” on KCRW

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Today at work I was looking for an album to play in the store that wouldn’t disagree with the tastes of my coworker. I knew he dug Nick Cave, so I figured the Black Heart Procession album Six would go over pretty well. Turned out that we both loved it so much that we played [...]

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For about a year or so around Night Ripper‘s release, I wasn’t really into Girl Talk. Then when I saw him play live at the Pitchfork festival I was completely won over. Ever since then I’ve tried to collect all the Girl Talk bootlegs I can. I’d say I’ve probably listened to the recording of [...]

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Ever hear the cliche “I’m never washing this hand again” after someone shakes hand a celebrity or hot girl? Well, that’s pretty much how I felt with regard to my ears after hearing Os Mutantes live. They were such a fantastic live show unlike any I’ve ever seen that the last thing I wanted to [...]

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Not to give anything away, but Os Mutantes was the best show of Boomslang. Sorry Mission of Burma, but they took it from you at the last minute. This video is pretty good proof, but still only a fraction of the greatness. Still, it’s fantastic and you should enjoy a samlnh of what we saw [...]

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Just saw this video for the Modern Skirts’ song “Pasadena.” They’ll be opening up for the Features tonight at Buster’s. This song’s got a less-Bluegrassy Avett Brothers feel to it. It sounds like something I would have really liked in 2005 back before I got all weird with my music tastes.

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James Husband’s new CD A Parrallax I is out soon, but we get to have a peek at some of the songs from the bonus CD that comes with the album. Here James Husband covers two Beatles tracks — easily the toughest band to cover. But Jamie has had plenty of time to practice covering [...]

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One of my most anticipated releases of 2010 is the follow up to the Whig’s Mission Control. Well yesterday The Whigs announced that the album would be called In the Dark and that we could have an MP3 from it RIGHT NOW! Sorry… I got a little excited there. MP3: The Whigs – In The [...]

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