Thanks to MFR for pointing me to the ACBs’ “Boy Like Me.” It’s a really fun pop song that’s the best I’ve heard in a few weeks. UPDATE: Turns out the band’s name is actually “The ACBs” not the ABCs. Oops! MP3: The ACBs – Boy Like Me With a name like The ACBs, I [...]

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Well that didn’t take long. Just three days ago I posted that the Decemberists would have a new album out in January; now they’ve released the first MP3 from The King is Dead. Those guys are nothing if not productive.

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When we were getting the “Come As You Aren’t” party all settled, I was just the tiniest bit disappointed that Matt Duncan had decided to cover Steely Dan. What little I knew about Steely Dan, I didn’t really care for. And really, I heard the same thing from a lot of people. Then how crazy [...]

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After years of saying “we should really do this…” I finally booked a Halloween covers show featuring some of my favorite local bands. And it was no surprise that the event was fun from doors open to doors close. But strangely I think the people that might have had the most fun were in Idiot [...]

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Deerhoof have started giving away their new album Deerhoof vs. Evil one track at a time. This week it’s “Suer Duper Rescue Heads,” made free over at the Guardian. Tour dates after the break.

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Thanks to MFR for pointing me toward this new Go! Team track. I’m way too tired at 10:30pm to fully enjoy this song, but I get the feeling that when I relisten to this tomorrow after I’ve been awake for a few hours, it’ll be the jaaaaaaaam. MP3: Go! Team – T.O.R.N.A.D.O. Let me start [...]

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My Morning Jacket’s show on Friday couldn’t have been a bigger celebration of local flavor if you’d had Will Oldham riding around piggy back on David Pajo. The biggest band to come out of Kentucky was backed by the Louisville Youth Symphony Orchestra at a hometown show in the brand-new arena built by a company [...]

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Of the many jaw-dropping moments at the Yum Arena show this Friday, Wax Fang had the first when they came out in full glowing Tron gear. They took the stage in near darkness, lit only by the glow of their apparently home-made suits. It was a pretty dramatic entrance that probably won them more some [...]

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