Listening In Live: Austin City Limits Day 3

The final day of ACL has come and gone, unfortunately I had to leave early, but I did get to catch a few of the acts playing, but overall wasn't that impressed.

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Listening In Live - Austin City Limits - Day 2

Day 2 of ACL is here and I've decided to keep things a little more laid back than yesterday.

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Listening In Live: Austin City Limits Day 1 – Conclusion

The day has come to an end, but Austin City Limits is just getting started. I've got the scoop on 3 other great shows I saw today. Bobby Bare Jr. (Web, Myspace)

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Listening In Live: Austin City Limits - Midday

The day is about half over here at ACL, and I'm back in the press lounge with the info on three shows. Asleep at the Wheel (Web, Myspace)

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Listen In Live Austin City Limits Day 1 - Arrival

Day 1 of Austin City Limits is here, right now I'm sitting in the press lounge waiting for some shows to start, but so far everything is looking pretty good.

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Austin City Limits: Plans and Schedules

The Austin City Limits music festival is right around the corner, and I'll be heading up there (down there for most of you). I've made a tentative schedule of the bands I would most like to see, which was hard because so many conflict with each other.

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TBTMTU: Guilty as Pleasure

This week on They Bring The Music To Us is the delightful Guilty as Pleasure.

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A Review Of Calexico's Carried To Dust

It's as if there were a slider that could adjust music much as a saturation control adjusts color. There would just be... more.

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8tracks: Online Mixtapes, Legally

Those of you with better-than-average memories may recall an article I wrote on Muxtape a few months back. In that article, I questioned the legal standing of the site.

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The Artist in Profile: Keri Hilson

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My Interview With Trout Fishing in America About Their New Album, Big Round World

Trout Fishing are one of my favorite musical acts aimed at kids and families. When I interviewed them for their prior kids album, My Best Day, I told them that I used to see and hear them on a regular basis when I lived in Fayetteville, Ark.

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TBTMTU: Soul Sides

Another week, another mp3 blog here on They Bring The Music To Us. This time it's Soul Sides, which is sure to become a favorite of you Vinylphiles out there.

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The Artist in Profile: 24 Years of Nick Cave

On October 1, I'm going to make a trip up to Toronto to catch Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds as they cross the continent on their Dig!!! Lazarus, Digg!!! tour.

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Listen In Double Feature: Centro-Matic/South San Gabriel Artist Profile + Dual Hawks Album Review

It's a day of doubles here at Listen In, with me finally receiving my Centro-Matic/South San Gabriel double album, Dual Hawks.

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What's New In Music: 9/2/08

Listen In feature What's New In Music has been AWOL for a couple of weeks, but no fear - it's back with a vengeance. As usual, we'll cover new album releases, the chart rankings, and the latest news on the hottest acts. This is WNIM for September 2nd, 2008. New Album Releases

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TBTMTU: Let's Sexy Fighting

Let's listen to some new music. And fight...sexily. It may have a strange title, but this weeks They Bring The Music To Us featured blog is Let's Sexy Fighting makes perfect sense when it comes to sharing new indie pop and rock bands with us.

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A Review of Mugison's Mugiboogie

How many times have you sampled a track by an artist previously unknown to you only to say, "I already have a bunch of stuff exactly like that?" There's just so, so much material floating in the ether these days that a truly fresh and compelling collection is becoming a rare find …

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New Album Review: Laura Marling, "Alas I Cannot Swim"

Have you heard Laura Marling's debut album, Alas I Cannot Swim?

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Listening In Live: Bumbershoot Day 2

After an intentionally slow Saturday – besides Beck there were no absolute must sees – we headed back to Bumbershoot Sunday for a whammy of an evening. Everything we planned to see was packed into the last five hours of the day.

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