Today was fantastic. Spent hours at the Cincinnati Zoo seeing baby animals doing incredible things — it was the baby giraffe’s second day out! — and then ate at a fantastic local restaurant. What should the third part to this great day be? A mix of some of my favorite rappers by one of my [...]

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I guess this shouldn’t come as a shock — it’s not like the Lips would put the money into gummy molding and then make fewer than 20 of these, right? — but the Flaming Lips are now selling their four-song USB gummy skulls in their store. $150 may seem too steep for some (me), but [...]

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Idiot Glee as Fleetwood Mac Who doesn’t love covers? Lexington sure loves them, as evidenced by the one-two covers punch tomorrow night at Al’s. Meetwood Flac w/ C.O.P.S. (Covers Of Punk Songs) Saturday April 29, 2011 9:30 Al’s Bar of Lexington 600 N Limestone $3 | 21+ MEETWOOD FLAC Fleetwood Mac covers, with new covers [...]

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Now that Radiohead and Panda Bear are out of the way, it’s time for my next most anticipated release of 2011: Portugal. the Man’s In the Mountain In the Cloud. Today we finally got al the details. In the Mountain in the Cloud is out July 19 on Atlantic Records. Tracklist is below, as is [...]

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Attempt/Ed Sunspot/Driphouse at Al’s Bar Thursday, April 28 9 p.m./$5 Just got news on the major bummer that Lexington>Chicago transplants Caboladies will no longer be able to play this gig, as member Eric Lanham (Carl Calm) apparently had his gear stolen in Chicago (ahem, MOVE BACK FROM THAT CRUEL CITY TO LEXINGTON’S OPEN ARMS) (just [...]

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One of the best tracks from Lykke Li’s fantastic record Wounded Rhymes gets the video treatment. Bonus: features Stellan Skarsgård! Trust me. You’ll know him when you see him.

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Jon Spencer Blues Explosion with Arcane Rifles Thursday, April 28 Buster’s 9 p.m., $15 adv/$18 DOS 18+ With roots that go back to the early ’90s, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion took a hiatus circa 2005, after a relatively long and prolific career that involved working with a diverse and completely nonlinear collection of artists, [...]

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MP3: Trinity Orchestra – Daft Punk medley Incredible. In February of this year, the students of the Trinity Orchestra of Dublin performed a medley of Daft Punk songs. It sounds flawless and is shot beautifully. I hope this isn’t the last work of this kind that we see from them.

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I was bummed that I had to miss both the Decemberists’ and New Pornographers’ shows last night. I did, however, find this video of the Decemberists covering the Fruit Bats’ song “When You Love Somebody” from a week or so ago. MP3: the Decemberists – When You Love Somebody (Fruit Bats) Of course this is [...]

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