We’ve only been waiting a little while since the announcement that Eels would be following this year’s Hombre Lobo with a quick next album, but it does seem like a long time when you consider we’ve yet to hear a peep out of Mark Oliver Everett. Well now we’ve got all the peeps we could [...]

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Ivana XL might work the hardest of any label-less musician I know. Not only did she whip up this new version of “EX. OH.” which about triples the instrument count, but she’s releasing an album of her old demos. Old Swans will be out within a week or two (check her myspace) and contains a [...]

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A few months ago I was trying desperately to find an interview with Stephin Merritt where he said there would be a new Magnetic Fields album in early 2010. I’d stumbled across it while at work, but never saw it again. Well today I can stop looking because the title, track list, album art and [...]

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Having seen Mark play in and around Lexington for as long as I’ve lived there, I will occasionally forget that he’s getting to be quite the internationally known musician. It’s for that reason that I was completely blown away by the quality of his latest video. “Mighty Leviathan of Old” doesn’t get some mediocre video [...]

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Just found out that Sambassadeur have a new album scheduled for Feb 2010. “Days” is the first single off the record and the only track from it I’ve heard thus far. Fingers crossed for a worthy follow up to all their other pop gems! MP3: Sambassadeur – Days I remember having one fall (’06, maybe?) [...]

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A week or two ago I heard Holiday Shores on WRFL and made a note to check them out when I got home. Well, must’ve not been a very good note, because I forgot until this weekend. Now that I’m giving away a pair of tickets to their Louisville show with Evangelicals, I thought that [...]

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While in Finland, I caught Murmansk’s performance on the suggestion of a number of people. Much like nearly every other band I caught there, they didn’t disappoint. They rocked harder than anyone I saw in Finland and did it with most of the lights off. Great for a dramatic light show, not so much for [...]

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Though the Hood Internet didn’t actually get to play the Buster’s party due to a fire code violation (or something), I figured I’d give them their due for having the best combo costumes I saw all night. The duo went as a combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell a la the Das Racist song. The [...]

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Yesterday was kind of a bust for me, what with a day-long headache. I did, however, take a few minutes out of my misery to watch this new video from Grizzly Bear for their song “Ready, Able.” The problem, however, was that I couldn’t really muster the energy to post on it after a viewing. [...]

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