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May The Lines Sag Heavy and Deep Tonight
Artists mentioned:The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 3Blood Brothers - Laser Life So it's just ticked past midnight; it still feels like Thursday night to me but I guess technically it is Friday morning. Which means that right now it's my birthday. Honestly I wasn't expecting to feel any monumental change,...(read full post)
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Wake Up it's Time for Work
Artists mentioned:Cursive - Dorothy Dreams of TornadosCursive - Rise Up! Rise Up! Date> 25 September 2006To> patrickkilpatrick@gmail.comSubject> Wake Up it's Time for WorkHey there, Patrick...I was thinking about a few things on the way home from work today; one of them being the power that words have to clue us in...(read full post)
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This Might Be Satire
Artists mentioned:Jews and Mexicans - Fk SongRemember Icy Hot Stuntaz, the trio of ridiculous white rappers who became an internet phenomenon?This is funnier.Remember the macho homophobic misogynistic alpha male motherfucker who called you a "fag" in high school? The fratboy jock asshole who watches Bumfights and lights his farts on fire?...(read full post)
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The Ashes Are Already About Us
Artists mentioned:Justin Timberlake - LoveStonedIn the ongoing music nerd debate between rockism and uh, anti-rockism (is it anti-rockism or popism? Either way, if you follow our blog at all it should be clear that this is the side of line we tend to fall on), today marked a huge blow to...(read full post)
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I Gots To Get Paid
Artists mentioned:Alexi Murdoch - Orange SkyThe idea of an mp3 blog, from what I can gather, is to post songs that are good. Or at least songs that you like. Or maybe just songs you think other people should hear. But what about a song you think people should hear (if...(read full post)
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Surf Will Tear Us Apart (Again)
Artists mentioned:Mister Loveless - Family JewelsMister Loveless - A Prison BreakFirst off - Hi, How are you? It's been a while. These blogs can be so strangely surreal and completely awesome at the same time. Getting email from some of my musical heros and other artists I've covered is one of...(read full post)
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Crass Crass Revolution
Artists mentioned:Chris Robinson - Bata MotelCrass was the band that changed everything for me. The Sex Pistols were the first punk band I ever heard, a barely audible radio station in Berkeley played "Anarchy In The U.K." when I was sitting at the train station on a family vacation and I...(read full post)
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How Much Art Can You Take? (Or There's Something About That Blue)
Artists mentioned:The Thermals - No Culture IconsCursive - Art is HardArt Brut - Modern ArtAs I'm sure you've realized by now, I place a tremendous importance on music in my life. I gain strength through solidarity, learn lessons vicariously and internalize and empathize with the similar ideas and emotions. My first...(read full post)
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A Real Motherfucker Of A Gentleman
Artists mentioned:GoGoGo Airheart - Death On Two LegsThe Blood Brothers - Under PressureMelt Banana - We Will Rock YouThe other day at about 11 in the morning (which is pretty damn early for me) I woke up to the bombastic sounds of Queen leaking up through the floorboards from the stereo...(read full post)
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The Discreet Charm of My Boy Jay-Z
Artists mentioned:Jay-Z - Friend or FoeJay-Z - Friend of Foe '98Dr. Dre - The WatcherJay-Z - The Watcher 2Sequels, according to Oscar winning screenwriting guru William Goldman, are always about the money. It's not about further character development or exploring things you didn't get to in the first one, it's about...(read full post)
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Bastard Pop Will Eat Itself
Artists mentioned:The Silence Xperiment - Wannabe My Badd BitchThe Best Mashups In The World Ever Are From San Francisco. I don't think it's necessarily true, but it's a helluva name for a compilation. Mashups are something we haven't really touched on at Cacophony and Coffee, but Jeff and I are both...(read full post)
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I Keep the One I Love in the Freezer
Artists mentioned:Love Is All - Aging Had Never Been His FriendLove Is All - Busy Doing NothingI'm not sure why we do it, but whenever a band comes from someplace other than our hometown, we feel the need to draw comparisons with that locale's major exports. Perhaps it's a holdover from...(read full post)
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Chi-Town Stand Up
Artists mentioned:Kanye West - SoulfulGuess who's bizack? I'm not smelling any blow in my clothes but I am back nonetheless after an inadvertent hiatus. The main reason, in case you were wondering, that I've been disconnected (literally and figuratively) from the internet lately is I've been working six days a week...(read full post)
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My Baby Does the Water Damage
Artists mentioned:Rah Bras - "Poisson"Rah Bras - "Bus Stop"Rah Bras - "The Fifth Allen"Rah Bras - "Skin=Chronized"One of the things I used to do in between bands at shows was try to count up all the shows I'd been to. I can still remember the show when I realized I could...(read full post)
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The Girls All Say You're A Wornout Star
Artists mentioned:Bob Dylan - Summer DaysThe first official day of summer may not be until June 21st but here in southern California it's so miserably hot I'm already dreaming of the fall. I don't deal well with hot weather, I guess it's the Minnesota in my blood. I hate summer clothes,...(read full post)
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I Disappear A Lot
Artists mentioned:Nico - I'll Keep It With MineRainer Maria - I'll Keep It With MinePage France - I'll Keep It With MineI've always been impressed with people who can write songs, and especially those songwriters who seem to just have songs flowing out of them constantly; those two-album-a-year kind of songwriters....(read full post)
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How to Fix Oldies Radio
Artists mentioned:Junior Walker - Cleo's MoodBooker T & the MG's - Boot-LegLink Wray - RumbleTomorrow is my College Graduation so I went out and got a haircut. Maybe some day in the future I'll do a whole post on just haircut songs, like Smoking Popes "Brand New Haircut," Brent's TV "Hairdoo,"...(read full post)
