On last year’s opening slot on the Foo Fighters tour, Cage the Elephant’s drummer had to miss some shows for a medical emergency. Always the professional, Dave Grohl stepped up to the kit and filled in on drums. Here’s a great video of Cage the Grohl performing “Aberdeen” … which is also the city that [...]

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#30: Fishboy – Classic Creeps MP3: Fishboy – Aaron the Afterthought Astronaut I don’t know which I find more impressive: that this album effortlessly weaves witticisms through incredible melody or that the entire album tells a complexly involved story. It’s easy to be dismissive of some pop records, but labels like “simplistic” just don’t stick [...]

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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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I’ve been loving Cage the Elephant’s Thank You Happy Birthday all year long. “Aberdeen” has always been a stand-out track amid that great album. Now it’s got a creative video to go along with it. Enjoy the stop-motion joy of “Aberdeen.” Cage the Elephant: “Aberdeen”

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Cage the Elephant’s Thank You Happy Birthday is incredible. I wasn’t really a fan before its release, but now I’m happy to report that I’ve been won over by the boys from Bowling Green. On a few tracks, like the album-opening “Always Something,” they sound like they’re big fans of The Whigs and the charging [...]

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