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Song of the Day
Artists mentioned:The Zutons - You Could Make The Four Walls Cry Buy some: The Zutons...(read full post)
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Song of the Day
Artists mentioned:Stereolab - Miss Modular Buy some: Stereolab...(read full post)
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Song of the Day
Artists mentioned:Yelle - Amour Du Sol Santogold - You'll Find A Way Robyn - Cobrastyle Kate Nash - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You Buy some: Yelle, Santogold, Robyn, Kate Nash...(read full post)
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What Is It This Time?
Artists mentioned:You may1 have noticed that I don't seem to do a lot of writing around here anymore. Why is this? Well... there are a multitude of reasons and I feel a very official looking list coming on... The List of Why Liz Is Not Writing... As Much It's not that...(read full post)
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Empty Vessels
Artists mentioned:I would like to pretend that I am listening to all sorts of new music that I'd like to share with the world. In reality it's been a hard week and I've survived by replaying the same 5 songs from Black Kids over and over. And over. And over. The...(read full post)
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I Thought I Saw...
Artists mentioned:I feel a bit like this tattered and old tabletop today. It's been a hard week, a harder weekend and unfortunately I see plenty of stormclouds in the future. The Shortwave Set - House of Lies She & Him - I Thought I Saw Your Face Today Louis Jordan -...(read full post)
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It's not Canada Day. It's not today.
Artists mentioned:I have no real reason for the Canadian artists du jour. Maybe it's a Canadian holiday today? Maybe I just like Canadians. Plants And Animals - A Loree Desbois Hello, Blue Roses - Shadow Falls The Cansecos - Raised By Wolves Buy some: Plants And Animals, Hello, Blue Roses, The...(read full post)
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[Begin Public Service Announcement]
Artists mentioned:Looking to kill a small time gap during the first night of SxSW I spied the name "Slaraffenland" followed by the always magical word "Denmark" on the schedule. After trying to figure out where exactly "The Gibson Room" at Maggie May's was... I found myself totally enraptured by five Danish...(read full post)
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That's a lie.
Artists mentioned:Some days... I am completely lacking direction. (That's a lie.) Most days... I am completely lacking direction. (Much closer to the truth I think.) After lounging in a bubble bath for a while and reading Dean Wareham's Book... this meandering doesn't seem as horrible as previously thought. Going along for...(read full post)
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Your Reverie
Artists mentioned:As I go through my life there are moments where I pause and think, I should reflect and write on this. Inevitably I am too busy to stop at that second and too easily distracted to remember later. So now that I sit here on a Saturday morning with the...(read full post)
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SxSW 2008 - A Belated Count
Artists mentioned:Tuesday - Scissors For Lefty, The Von Bondies Wednesday - Shearwater, Phosphorescent, Joseph Arthur, Division Day, Wedding Present / The Cansecos, Wild Light, Slaraffenland, Peter Moren, Pattern Is Movement, Tacks The Boy Disaster Thursday - Helio Sequence, Eugene Mirman, Todd Barry, Saul Williams / Jens Lekman, Le Loup, nelo, Evangelicals,...(read full post)
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PowerPop Saturday
Artists mentioned:I could explain where I've been or what I've been up to, but who really cares? It's a sunshiney powerpop Saturday, the likes of which Chicago hasn't seen in about 6 months1. We're all much better off throwing on a smile and some guitar pop than focusing on the who,...(read full post)
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Is it March? Finally?
Artists mentioned:I couldn't lay in bed any longer this morning. I was having a dream that snakes suddenly had octopus like tentacles and were stuck to me. Someone in my dream was having a problem pulling a little snake off of my skin, as all it wanted to do was permanently...(read full post)
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Five Years of Flirt!
Artists mentioned:How hard is it on Valentine's Day is it to post just a few love songs? Turns out, incredibly hard. Although "love" and it's discovery or loss has to be one of the most sung about topics in music, finding just that perfect song to express your sentiments is still...(read full post)
