After teasing us for weeks with the Pretend to be BOAT covers album, BOAT have finally released a song from their upcoming Pretend to be Brave LP. “Inside An Aquarium” details life in the rainy northwest and the accidents it can cause. MP3: BOAT – Inside an Aquarium BOAT have tagged this as “sloppy pop” [...]

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This’ll help you Long Winters fans get through this lengthy pause between their albums. John Roderick is the latest friend of BOAT to cover a song off their upcoming album Pretend to Be Brave. This is a risky move by them; they’ve got such great covers in their Pretend to be BOAT series that we [...]

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BOAT’s got a new LP coming out called Pretend to Be Brave. But in advance of that new material, they’re releasing Pretend to be BOAT, covers from the new album done by their friends. Here’s Throw Me The Statue with a good take on “Sharpshooters” — what the original song sounds like, I don’t yet [...]

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2011 was (another) odd year for music. It felt like the average quality of albums was raised a bit, but nothing really stood out as a life-changing album or single of the year. Still, there was a lot of great music to be heard. Here’s fifty of my favorite tracks from the year, ranging from [...]

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