Yesterday at the record store, my coworker Mike and I were cleaning out hundreds of promo CDs from behind the counter. We wound up listening to a lot of stuff we’d been meaning to check out or just otherwise looked interesting, including BEAK> (on his suggestion). Apparently Geoff Barrow from Portishead is in the group, [...]

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Hey! Just when it seemed like MusicNOW was going to have to change their name to MusicEVENTUALLY, they finally got around to announcing their awesome-as-always lineup! This year the festival will be taking place at Memorial Hall in Cincinnati from March 30 – April 1. Tickets are $20 per night or $50 for the weekend. [...]

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Seems like just the other day we were all enjoying the release of Roadside Graves’ My Son’s Home, doesn’t it? Now, just a few short months after falling in love for the first time, they’ve readied their follow up and have offered us this new track as a preview. You Won’t Be Happy With Me [...]

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With only three hours notice, this might set a record for the least helpful I’ve ever been. However, I just found out about it and will most likely be in attendance, so maybe you can make it out too. The Night James Brown Saved Boston FREE SHOWING — 2pm at the Kentucky Theater 214 E. [...]

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Local Natives’ upcoming record Gorilla Manor is easily my favorite debut in a good long while. In fact, I’d say the only one to give them a run for their money is Cymbals Eat Guitars. I’ve been enjoying this record so much that I gave Local Natives’ Andy Hamm a call on the eve of [...]

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Blair’s new record Die Young might not have the greatest advice in the title, but it’s full of fantastic songs. It’s a bit of a push from her simpler stuff I’d heard before, but as tracks like “Candy in the Kitchen” prove, that’s really only for the best. MP3: Blair – Candy in the Kitchen [...]

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Super cool album artwork, right? Asthmatic Kitty’s resident firecracker, Rafter, has readied a new album entitled Animal Feelings and is ready to give us a brief preview. Not to spoil the “review” an inch or two below this paragraph, but it’s really a great track. MP3: Rafter – Paper Until last week I had no [...]

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I think somewhere in the past year These United States overtook the Apples in Stereo and Andrew Bird as the group I’ve seen the most in concert. It was fairly inevitable, given that they do about three complete US tours a year and 3/5 of them live in Lexington. But the craziest thing is that [...]

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Portugal. The Man’s album The Satanic Satanist has been blowing my mind for months now. You know how you can tell I’m a fan? I’ll actually take the extra 1/3 second to put a period and capital “T” in their band name. If they were mediocre, well, you can forget it. MP3: Portugal. The Man [...]

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