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Would the Who have been a better band without Roger Daltrey? I recently saw an article (Rolling Stone maybe?) that I'm not going to bore anyone by linking to, wherein some poor music writer was contracted to deliver a very special message from Roger Daltrey, fresh off finally killing rock and roll music forever and ever at this year's Super Bowl Halftime Show. "I want to work with Jimmy Page,"

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Animal Collective- Merriweather Post PavilionThe Flaming Lips- EmbryonicNirvana- Live at ReadingSonic Youth- Live Battery Park 4 July 2008Anni Rossi- RockwellYeah Yeah Yeahs- It's Blitz!Pink Mountaintops- Outside LovePains of Being Pure at Heart- Pains of Being Pure at HeartDinosaur Jr- FarmSt. Vincent- ActorNeko Case- Middle CycloneNo Age- Losing Feeling EPKylesa- Static TensionsRaekwon- Only

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SAT. NOVEMBER 14th7PM - $5THE VILLAGE LANTERNINFO & RSVP here.Become a fan of the show (before even seeing it!) here.Email for info and tickets here.

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On February 11, 1997, Pavement released their fourth studio album, on Matador, Brighten the Corners.On April 8, 1997, Sleater-Kinney released their third studio album, on Kill Rock Stars, Dig Me Out.On June 16 1997, Radiohead released their third studio album, on Parlophone/ Capitol Records, OK Computer.Sometime probably in early July, out of school and just starting work at my first job- a bagel

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B.A. Robertson- "Knocked it Off" b/w "Sci-Fi" (1979 Asylum Records)This one called out to me from the Bleecker Bob's crap bin- the front cover is a fairly ugly and hacky cartoon illustration of, one had to assume, Robertson himself- complete with a frighteningly huge nose and Shadoe Stevens haircut, leaning up against a giant fountain pen looking like he was shooting a promo for his new

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WANNABES- "Dead True" b/w "Itchin' Jenny" (1992/ Biffco Records)Wax. So a few weeks ago I decided that the act of walking into one of NYC's remaining few record stores and buying a 7" that I was either entirely unaware of or something unique/ funny would be excellent fodder for a little feature to be done here. Plus, hey, it's not much but patronizing record stores is important.I'm not sure

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... just trying to finish work on a long-term project, so this place has suffered. Tonight, as part of my "tiny distraction time" I made a list of my 25 favorite books. OK I made a list of my 55 favorite books but I'll spare you that level of insanity. A lot of these really had a lot to do with how this project comes out for sure.Ulysses, James JoyceThe Sound and the Fury, William FaulknerThe

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__ _ __1/4Redd Kross is so many things. They're the late-80s answer to Big Star- a loud, rocking pop group that fell out of print and never got it's due. They're an almost perfect midpoint between the Replacements cock-rock noise swagger and the weird, ethereal big pop punk of the Pixies. They sound like Minor Threat doing Gerry Rafferty covers.

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I don't want to get started on the Twitter thing. Let's just all accept it and move on. I think it could be fun- I'll sort of jot out what I'm listening to at the moment every so often, and you can check it out, suggest some stuff to me, all that sort of stuff.Plus I'll enjoy looking back at what I was listening to across long periods of time. (bsmemorial45).To better serve our Twitter

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I've been giving Thriller a lot of spins these last few days for obvious reasons, and it's just impossible not to be moved to talk about it. For me. Michael's recorded output as a solo artist centers around his Off the Wall/ Thriller/ Bad trio. He had solid singles both before and after, but that's the work you hone in on immediately. What's interesting looking at them in a group like that is

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Animal Collective- Merriweather Post PavilionSonic Youth- The EternalSunset Rubdown- DragonslayerYeah Yeah Yeahs- It's Blitz!Anni Rossi- RockwellDirty Projectors- Bitte OrcaGrizzly Bear- VeckatimestNeko Case- Middle CyclonePains of Being Pure at Heart- Pains of Being Pure at HeartDinosaur Jr- FarmBonnie "Prince" Billy- BewareKylesa- Static TensionsPhoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus PhoenixDOOM- Born Like

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__ _ __Have you ever heard this album? Have you ever listened to this shit? New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) is without a doubt the best funk album released this decade, and one of my favorites ever by anyone. I like this album more than any other Erykah Badu album, and I really, really love her records. I like this album more than The

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Everybody's got something they'll want to say, but here's the way Michael Jackson's music makes me feel.After I heard I went to go walk to the deli and the bank and put on my ipod and started listening to Thriller. It was really hot today, and I walk real fast, and I sweat a lot anyway, but- Thriller was making me sweat. It always, always does.And then? I pulled off my earphones for a second

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__ _ __I talk about Sonic Youth a lot. Well, I have in this place since I started back up again (OK in real life too maybe). I figured I would further commemorate their recent release by reviewing... their previous one, which came out three years ago this past Saturday- Rather Ripped, named, in a typical moment of prescience, after a

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__ _ __1/2I'm kicking off what will be a fairly steady "column", if you will. I'm going to review records. New ones, old ones, not yet released ones. Whatever I'm listening to. I promise I won't only review ones I like. Well, maybe the old ones will be mostly ones I like, right? Otherwise why am I listening to it. We're working off a five

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David Fricke wrote a review of Nirvana's In Utero back in 1993, and one line from it stuck out so much that I remember it fifteen years later. "'Heart Shaped Box' is a song the Stone Temple Pilots couldn't have written with detailed instructions."Man, that's so true, and I think probably could have been the entire review. "So everyone's starting to sound like them, but they're still in another

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Sonic Youth's 16th studio album The Eternal comes out today. I payed for it forever ago so I've been able to stream it online for a few weeks now. But, it's always fun to get the real thing- higher quality, plus a free copy of the live record they made from the band's free July 4th in Battery Park show a year ago. A show I was at and enjoyed thoroughly.

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I was recently able to get a digital copy of Pedro Martinez's June 3rd performance from way back in 1995, as a member of the Expos in San Diego. In that game, Pedro, at 23 years old, threw nine perfect innings with zero run support. In the top of the 10th, the Montreal offense spent a ton of time squeezing out the one run, and Pedro- entering the 10th inning on 92 pitches- gives up a rope

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My love for Neil Young runs deep. I love the way Neil Young sings, and I love the way he plays the guitar more than just about anyone I've ever heard. He has maybe my favorite guitar tone ever- and I'm fairly obsessed with that, too. You can tell a Neil Young solo totally out of context in an instant. I'm listening to "Country Home", off of Ragged Glory, his sensational 1990 Crazy Horse

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I like Pitchfork a lot. I don't really care that everyone else does too- I've heard of a lot of great stuff I never would have because of that site. So I read it fairly often. They do this thing now where they ask artists to pick a record they were into at five year intervals in their lives and sort of explain it a little. Here's one with Dan Deacon. You know, music nerdery.So I thought I

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I just put on Major League, one of the great baseball movies. I am now going to live-diary it or whatever the fuck you want to call it. This movie is so rich.* This starts out, oddly enough, as an attempt at like, a movie about a city. Sort of like a little indie movie. This soapy music and the working class city shots. Kind of cool. * I love shots of big cities from like, the early 80s.

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OK, so here's the deal. My sister is Colleen. She digs music. She doesn't go to a ton of shows necessarily, but she's always had a lot of music she was listening to. She digs music a lot. She loves Jay-Z the most, I think, and way back in the day we saw fucking Elliott Smith together on his Figure 8 tour which, of all the shows I've seen, is probably still my all time favorite (plus this guy

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Every time I watch Jimmy Fallon's show I like it. I don't think I really find Fallon all that funny, but he's sort of likable. So then the show is almost like watching this everyman who's got this TV show to play with. Some of the bits fall flat, and he can really, really tank an interview on occasion, but once you let go of the idea that this show has to be something in the vein of Letterman

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Well, it's not really a theory, it's more an observation. Something I always think about when I see one particular scene in one of my absolute favorite movies.Back to the Future and The Ghostbusters are, hands down, the two greatest comedies from the 1980s. Both have that awesome melding of science fiction and comedy and adventure, built around two main characters (Venkman and McFly) that are

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Oh yes, little old me.I guess I don't know how to start. Hi. Maybe you remember this place. It ended in June of 2006, just as it had started two years before that on a whim. Or a cry for attention. What is it about this time of year?Very much has changed for me in the last three years, as it has I'm sure for just about every one of the people that were nice enough to support my site way back

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