Nature, the debut album from Columbus, Ohio group Flotation Walls, hasn't stopped playing for me since I got my hands on the disc last week.
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I wrote here about first seeing the band "Leaving, TX" and feeling duped that they were neither from Texas nor leaving it (except, of course, when they visited it) but loving their live show. I did an interview with the band for that album.
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Last night I saw the band Clem Snide for the second time (both times in Austin) and what a difference six years can make. It took less than six years for some bands I loved in high school and college (bands like REM and U2 ) to become too poppy and mainstream and redundant for me.
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excerpt:"Hip-hop fantasies of a black executive have popped up throughout the genre's history, visions of empowerment that speak to a real-life condition of powerlessness.
Can't wait for Sufjan Stevens' next record in The Fifty States Project? Then feast your ears on The Welcome Wagon's Welcome to the Welcome Wagon. The indie darling's imprimatur is indelibly stamped all over this beguiling release from the Asthmatic Kitty record label.
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Last Saturday night, The Dixie Hummingbirds brought their warm jubilation to an otherwise dark and bleak Ohio midwinter. Seemed a good time to huddle up for some gospel harmony as the cold and snow are getting a bit oppressive around here.
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For the better part of three decades, I've given Chrissie Hynde the benefit of the doubt. Fellow Ohioan. Sassy. Rock and roll guitar playing chick singer. Pretty cool.
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This was certainly a good year in music. While not as ridiculously strong as 2007, 2008 had more than its fair share of fantastic releases. Over the course of the next week ScooterDMan, Evan Mix and myself will list our picks for the best albums of the year.
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Well, the top five got postponed slightly due to a series of travel-related complications and other unavoidable stuff. We resume our countdown today with the second-best album of 2008 - a crazy little mashup masterpiece by the name of Feed the Animals.
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This was certainly a good year in music. While not as ridiculously strong as 2007, 2008 had more than its fair share of fantastic releases. Over the course of the next week ScooterDMan, Evan Mix and myself will list our picks for the best albums of the year.
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3. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals — Cardinology
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We're halfway home. Check out columns by Eric and Scooter for more picks in the best of 2008 series, or weigh in with your own top 5 in the comment thread. Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
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Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks -- Real Emotional Trash
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Today, we continue our weeklong series counting down the top albums of 2008. At this point, my list starts to get very muddy - there were at least six albums that seemed equally qualified for slots two through five, and I had one hell of a time sorting them out.
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This was certainly a good year in music. While not as ridiculously strong as 2007, 2008 had more than its fair share of fantastic releases. Over the course of the next week ScooterDMan, Evan Mix and myself will list our picks for the best albums of the year.
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5. Vampire Weekend — Vampire Weekend
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As you may already be aware, Eric, Scooter, and I will be breaking down the top albums of 2008 over the next week. Each article will feature a pick and commentary by each of us on that album. In my column, we open the week with a little hip-hop. Here we go!
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This was certainly a good year in music. While not as ridiculously strong as 2007, 2008 had more than its fair share of fantastic releases. Over the course of the next week ScooterDMan, Evan Mix and myself will list our picks for the best albums of the year.
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A red touchtone telephone — just left of the drum kit — illuminated by a small, occasionally pulsing red spotlight was about the only hint of political pugnacity on display last night when Neil Young and His Electric Band rolled into The Palace of Auburn Hills.
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Warning: This review contains profanities so if that bugs you stop reading now.
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It seems like we've been gone forever, but They Bring The Music To Us is back this week with a new music blog, Cause = Time.
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Normally I would use this space for a more detailed eloquent introduction to this interview.
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They Bring The Music To Us is back, and featuring a great little mp3 blog called HARD CANDY which separates itself from the rest of the mp3-blogging pack in a significant way.
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The Lower East Side was positively Scandinavian Wednesday night as Tobias Froberg, Theresa Andersson, and Ane Brun made themselves comfortable in the Living Room for the second night of CMJ 2008.
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