After 26 years of catering to the Louisville community, local record store ear X-tacy has called it quits. The store was closed unexpectedly on Saturday and Sunday, with the store’s twitter account closed and deleted during the same time. Suspicions the store had closed were confirmed when storeowner John Timmons released a statement today on [...]

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Childish Gambino’s “Bonfire” now has a video that’s appropriate for Halloween. Camp is out Nov 15.

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Superchunk are such nice folks. They keep giving out free seasonal covers that are both great and fitting choices. This year they’ve given us a cover of the Misfits’ “Where Eagles Dare” on their site. Happy halloween! MP3: Superchunk – Where Eagles Dare (Misfits)

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There were some incredible sets at last year’s Come As You Aren’t. However, I’ve got to give it to this year’s bands in terms of immersion as the bands they’re covering. Cheyenne Mize’s set as PJ Harvey must’ve made any fans who saw her in the 90s do a double-take. Everything about her set fit [...]

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Stream the Flaming Lips’ “7 Skies H3″ for the rest of the day at FlamingLipsTwentyFourHourSong.com

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Every year I promise myself that I’m going to take photos of the great costumes you guys show up in for Come As You Aren’t, and every year I forget to take the time to do it. Oh well. My co-sponsored event with Cosmic Charlies went off spectacularly. Here are but a handful of the [...]

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I’m sure you’re almost as excited as I am for Islands’ v-day 2012 album A Sleep & A Forgetting. As of yet, we’ve got no advance listen to the album. There is, however, a new song that Islands played earlier this year that’ll likely end up on the record. Check out this new song from [...]

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Tonight is the second YANP-sponsored Halloween covers show Come As You Aren’t! This year we’ve got Wax Fang, Cheyenne Mize and the Deloreans performing entire cover sets. It’s going to be fantastic. The event goes down at Cosmic Charlies tonight and will only set you back $10. Come As You Aren’t The Deloreans performing the [...]

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Last night Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake did the third installment of their “History of Rap” series last night. They went from Will Smith and De La Soul to Kanye and Outkast. Sure they’re a bit corny, but I really enjoy these medleys. [via AP]

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