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The great Blogocide of 2010 has struck too many great folks out there to ignore the Sword of Damocles swinging ominously above my head. I don't blame Blogger; they have to protect their own interests against (frivolous) DMCA complaints. Once the (frivolous) complaints started mounting against my site, I decided to move. It is an act of pure self-preservation: I like doing this and I want to

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Exclaim is reporting that a new Wolf Parade should expected on June 29 on Sub Pop. What's even more exciting is that the band recorded 15 songs and over 80 minutes of music. Dan Boeckner is on record as saying that the band would consider an LP plus EP set of releases or . . . wait for it . . . a double album. The album was recorded live (with "zero" overdubs) and consists of "a few songs that

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Blithe Field "Ghost Riding the Whip"Blithe Field "Bible School"Some albums are musical Advil to me. Literally. I listen to them when I feel a headache brewing behind my eyes. The best headache defense albums are ones that push a fair amount of repetition but introduce enough modulation to keep things interesting. The repetition helps me relax, while the modulation gives me something to focus

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Here's a fact that few are willing to remember or acknowledge: back in 1991, when Spin was a reputable publication, the magazine named Teenage Fanclub's Bandwagonesque the best album of the year. It's important to remember that 1991 also saw Nevermind and Out of Time and Efil4zaggin and Gish and De La Soul is Dead and Ten and and Trompe Le Monde and The Low End Theory and Girlfriend and

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I apologize for the absence. My real job has been monopolizing my time and energy and general life will for the past week. Also, I've been working on some BIG changes for No Genre Music. I'll announce them, you know, whenever.In the meantime, scope out a pair of excellent new tracks from Broken Social Scene's forthcoming Forgiveness Rock Record. First up is your standard issue Kevin Drew love

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mp3: RXRY "Aepreantly Knauwt"With "Aepreantly Knauwt," the latest RXRY track, the balance between the organic thump of the bass and the metallic shivers of a machine is so tenuous that you're afraid to listen too closely. The whispy threads of song linger in that liminal state between consciousness and unconsciousness; it's careful only to reveal as much as it needs to for you to register its

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mp3: Pill Wonder "Gone to the Market"Jungle/Surf, the new album from Pill Wonder, clocks in at a little over 18 minutes. While the record has the running time of an EP, it certainly has the arc of a conventional length album. The record is anchored by the deeply catchy "Gone to the Market" and "Wishing Whale." These are the most conventionally structured songs with (more or less) proper

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Cults "Go Outside"I tried to ignore Cults. Their charmingly lo-fi jpeg of a couple spastically dancing has been popping up everywhere for the last week or two. In my ignorance, I gave "Go Outside" 30 seconds of my time, dismissed them, and then moved onto something else. But this morning I gave up and listened to their free EP closely. A friend of mine called it "tidy," and that's really a

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A bunch of great blogs (i.e. Weekly Tape Deck, Transparent Blog, Indie Verse, Yours Truly, Friendship Bracelet, and Underwater Peoples) are pooling their resources to bring some lucky folks at SXSW a ridiculous slew of terrific bands over the course of 3 days. To celebrate (promote) the event, they're collectively giving away an excellent two volume mixtape that features all the acts and their

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In a rather surprising move, Wolf Parade's epic prog-rock exercise "Kissing the Beehive" finally gets the video treatment. Treatment is the operative word here: the video features only a few actual minutes of music from the 11 minute monolith. Instead, we get a frustrated Carey Mercer, the lunatic/frontman of the Frog Eyes, moping on a beach surfboard in hand. When the music finally arrives

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In a world were hype can anoint kings and queens over the course of an afternoon, it was nice to see some restraint from the blogs over Here We Go Magic. Most everyone seemed to understand that Luke Temple's newest project was still in its nascent state. Last year's self-titled debut wasn't a great album, but it had plenty of terrific moments, particularly "Tunnelvision" and "Fangela." Here's

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Normally when an artist records a video for a song from an unreleased album, that's a clear signal that said unreleased album is actually being, you know, released. While the song leaked sometime last September, the fact that a video now exists has got to mean something, right?Along with the excellent "Shine Blockas" and the superb "Royal Flush," "Fo Yo Sorrow" is just another brick in the

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Pitchfork.tv posted a video of New Jersey's Real Estate playing the sad "Suburban Dogs" in a New Jersey real estate office. The footage is cut with nostalgic, hazy 35mm footage of suburban life. Check it out below:

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Pavement's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain has my favorite opening to any album: a bass and a lead guitar argue while a drum kit tries to mediate. After the three have hashed it out, they start to work together to introduce what is probably my favorite song in Pavement's catalog, "Silence Kit." By the time Stephen Malkmus enters the mix, exactly one minute into the album, the song has exploded like

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Do you realize how fucking great a Gorillaz greatest hits record would be? The thing would be practically unstoppable: "Clint Eastwood," "DARE," "Feel Good Inc," "Dirty Harry," "Slow Country," "Tomorrow Comes Today," "19-2000," among about a dozen others. Gorillaz has always been more of a great singles band than album-oriented outfit. That being said, Plastic Beach is their most consistent

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mp3: Raekwon "Wallys and Pringles"Raekwon's newest freestyle bonanza, the terrifically titled "Wallys and Pringles," is over almost before it begins. A frantic bongo beat (courtesy of The Alchemist) keeps the Chef on his toes, but he isn't fazed at all. He's in great form, bragging about how he's got two machetes in his mouth. Rae's right: he is fresher than Ron O'Neal.Raekwon's latest

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mp3: Zola Jesus "Night"All happy goth girls resemble one another; every unhappy goth girl is unhappy in her own way.The spunky goth girls are really in it for the fashion or the attention or the drugs. At some point, usually before moving off to college, they let their brown roots reclaim their matte black dye jobs. But the genuinely sullen goth girls are uniquely upset because they spend

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According to the press release accompanying Liars' Sisterworld, the album creates "a space [...] somewhere remote from the false promises and discarded dreams amassed in LA. In it Liars explore the underground support systems created to deal with loss of self to society."Sound familiar? That's basically the plot of David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, which tells the story (I think) of a woman who

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mp3: Sambassadeur "Days"Eighteen seconds before the song is scheduled to end, the soulful drum rolls and piano lines fall away, leaving only the strings of a chamber pop orchestra. Anna Perrson sings in English with her lilting Swedish accent: "I don't care how it happened/Always have time for an old friend/I just have to know that you're coming back again." It's a surprising coda to a song

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mp3: Pantha du Prince "Stick to My Side" (Four Tet Remix)In advance of the 12'' single for Pantha du Prince's collaboration with Noah Lennox, "Stick to My Side," (out March 23rd) Rough Trade is now offering the b-side Four Tet's remix of the song. The re-imagining doesn't radically transform the song, but it does replace the chiming rhythm of the original with some full synth lines and a

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By January 1992, Nirvana's Nevermind had replaced Michael Jackson's Dangerous on top of the Billboard charts. We marveled earlier this year when Vampire Weekend's Contra topped the charts. With all due respect to VW's accomplishment, their showing is not a surprise at all. Contra is a great record full of songs that dote on you like an eager puppy, but Nevermind, on the other hand, is full of

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Unfortunately, it's only a matter of time before the word slacker gets rediscovered. The word was a inspired bit of armchair sociology that was ultimately undermined by its own weaknesses as a classification. Slacker was never a convincing condemnation because slack was a virtue, a quasi-political statement of intent. Slack was never about work ethic; it was always about motivation. A

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The generous guys over at Weekly Tape Deck hooked me up with Pantha du Prince's newest 12'' single, The Splendour. The song, like most of them on the excellent Black Noise, is an icy sheet of minimal techno. The song features Tyler Pope, the bassist for !!! and LCD Soundsystem. The b-sides, "Water Falls" and "Sach Mal Baum," could have fit nicely on Black Noise. "Water Falls" relies on a

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mp3: Lingering Last Drops "Light"The unfortunate reality is that Trent Reznor's legacy will not be built on the bands that he inspired. Far too often, bands equate NIN with brutality of warring machines and forget the quiet dread that Reznor can conjure in his quietest moments. But imagine if a band out there learned the right lesson. Imagine if they learned how create atmospheric music that

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mp3: "Jimi Beachball"mp3: "Please Note"Back in my day, kids were lazy. I was lazy, my friends were lazy, all my cousins by the dozens were lazy. We didn't do shit. We have few accomplishments to our name: we memorized nearly every line of dialogue from The Simpsons' first ten or twelve seasons, we made both the Boomers and Gen Yers hate us, we got obscenely educated at the cost of near

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