I spaced on the announcement from Chris Tayor’s Terrible Records, but eventually got around to checking out Acrylics. Their EP came out at the end of last year, but trust me, it still sounds as good in 2010. MP3: Acrylics – All Of The Fire Gotta admit: I would never have guessed that Chris Taylor [...]

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There’s a weekend of local music ahead for Lexingtonians. In addition to These United States playing on Friday, we’ve also got a sweet show to look forward to on Saturday. Buster’s is hosting two of Lexington’s best contributions to pop music: Big Fresh and Matt Duncan. Big Fresh w/Matt Duncan at Buster’s Sat 1/16 – [...]

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If you haven’t heard, last year Chris Knox of the Tall Dwarfs suffered a stroke. Merge Records is putting out a covers compilation to benefit his medical bills. The lineup is incredible (Stephin Merritt, Yo La Tengo, the Mountain Goats, AC Newman, etc), but there’s one song we were all looking forward to hearing: Jeff [...]

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The Ruby Suns’ Fight Softly is one of the most anticipated albums around the record store. We were one-by-one swayed over to their debut’s charms and have spent the past few years awaiting the follow up. Now we’ve got a first listen to the upcoming record and it looks like it’s going to be even [...]

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I was at a late showing of Up in the Air last night (loved it) and checked Twitter really quickly during a transitional scene. Surprise, surprise, that was the exact moment that Ted Leo announced that he would be posting some covers he’d recorded on a lark that evening. MP3: Ted Leo – Speak Now [...]

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I’m fairly sure I’ve heard Let’s Wrestle before, but for all intents and purposes, this is my first real exposure to them. Let’s Wrestle were just announced as Merge’s newest signees, offering us this MP3 to go along with the news. MP3: Let’s Wrestle – We Are the Men You’ll Grow to Love There’s a [...]

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Knoxville’s Big Ears festival keeps getting better. They just added The National, Dirty Projectors and a few more great groups to their already awesome lineup. Big Ears is March 26-28 in Knoxville, TN. Here’s the full list of new additions; already announced bands after the jump: The National, Dirty Projectors, Bang on a Can All-Stars, [...]

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One of my many YANP-related New Years resolutions was to attend more shows in 2010. Luckily one of my favorite bands is making it easy: These United States will be playing a block from my house this Friday. These United States w/the Swells at Cosmic Charlie’s Friday 1/15 – 9pm I can’t imagine there are [...]

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Maybe you’re like me and you didn’t catch the original video for Still Flyin’s song “Aerosmith, Take Me to the Other Side.” Totally OK. Well this is an alternate version of the video with only scenes of them as Aerosmith. It looks like a fair amount of this footage was used in the original video, [...]

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