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New Album Review: Nature by Flotation Walls

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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Press Play: A Review Of Welcome To The Welcome Wagon

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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Listening In Live to The Dixie Hummingbirds: 1/31/2009

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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Press Play: A Review Of The Pretenders' Break Up The Concrete

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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Top Five Albums of 2008: Number One

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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Top Five Albums of 2008: Number Two

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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Top Five Albums of 2008: Two and Three

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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Top Five Albums of 2008: Number Three

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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Top Five of 2008: Number Four

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks -- Real Emotional Trash

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Top Five Albums of 2008: Number Four

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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Top Five Albums of 2008: Number Four

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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Top Five Albums of 2008: Number Five

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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Top Five Albums of 2008: Number Five

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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Listening In Live to Neil Young and Wilco: 12/7/2008

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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TBTMTU: Cause = Time

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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TBTMTU: Hard Candy

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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Listening in Live to CMJ: The Living Room 10/22/08

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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TBTMTU: The Tape (it's not sticky)

Another week, another They Bring The Music To Us, and today I'm featuring a fantastic blog called The Tape, which was filling the gaping void I've had for a while.

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TBTMTU: Indie Music Filter

They Bring The Music To Us is back from hiatus, and we're kicking things off with Indie Music Filter.

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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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