Well this is a coincidence. Today I woke up at 5am with a headache that was really kicking my butt. I went and laid in a warm bath for a while, correctly guessing that it was related to my sinus congestion. While in there, for some reason Phosphorescent’s “I am a Full Grown Man, I [...]

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KEXP shared this track as their song of the day a few days ago. I’ve ping ponged back and forth from really enjoying the track and feeling like I’d heard it before. But in the end I decided that if I’d listened to the song half a dozen times and found myself humming along, clearly [...]

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What great news to wake up to! The New Pornographers have announced that their next album Together will be out May 4 on Matador. Not only do they have everyone back on board (including wildcards Neko and Dan), but they’re joined by St Vincent, Zach Condon, Will Sheff of Okkervil River and the Dap-Kings’ horns [...]

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The Hidden Cameras just premiered this video over at NME.com. They’re calling it “bizarre,” but I’m going to go with “just about genius.” It’s got striking visuals to accompany one of the better tracks off Origin:Orphan. I promise this is one that you’re either going to hate or watch over and over again. And if [...]

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Photographed inside a porta potty the first day of Bonnaroo 2008 Over at the Bonnaroo message board they’ve been driving themselves just about to the point of madness over the handful of clues that have leaked out so far. Normally we’ve got a bit more to go on by this point, but there are two [...]

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I had no idea two of my favorite things in the world were colliding last night. Spoon brought the best track from Transference over to the best late show yesterday. Everything sounds great (especially that guitar solo), but this is apparently a song that kills Britt’s vocal cords. Still, an awesome performance from one of [...]

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I’ve had a copy of the Happy Hollows album for a little while now, but didn’t really get a chance to listen to it until last night while I was mopping up at the record store. Take my advice, guys: don’t listen to this while mopping, you’ll just want to slide around and wind up [...]

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Kevin Barnes just uploaded this video to Of Montreal’s Youtube account. It’s a little over a minute of him at the piano playing a selection of a new song called “Enemy Gene.” I’m a giant sucker for Of Montreal songs played solo at the piano (see my choice for the best song of 2008), so [...]

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So for those of you who read YANP because you like pop music, that BEAK> post might have been a bit confusing. So to make up for it, here’s some superpoppy music that was just handed over to me by a UK friend. MP3: Muchuu – Somebody Tell Me I’d say that if you were [...]

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