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Strategy: Music for Lamping
About this time a year ago I was kicking around cold old Edmonton, Alberta, watching the final days of summer...
Sep 29, 2008
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Charles Hamilton: Death of the Mixtape Rapper Mixtape
A bit of context: Charles Hamilton is an asshole. Endorsed in some way or another by Okayplayer, Hamilton’s threatened to...
Sep 29, 2008
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Kings of Leon: Only By the Night
Give Kings of Leon credit: they’re on their fourth album in five years, something nobody could have imagined back in...
Sep 29, 2008
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T.I. & Jay-Z f/ Lil' Wayne & Kanye West: "Swagger Like Us"
Let me tame my embarrassingly intense erection just long enough to invoke this with the amount of emphasis it demands:...
Sep 26, 2008
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Johannes Kreidler: "Product Placement"
When Brahms did it, it was art. When Negativland did it, it was funny. (And when 2 Live Crew did...
Sep 26, 2008
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Elliot Goldenthal: "Hand In Hand"
Heat: one of the most snubbed masterpieces of modern cinema that can only fail to impress the deeply vain or...
Sep 24, 2008
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Harvey Milk: Life...the Best Game In Town
I’d like to issue for review the term “stoner metal”—proposing in its stead that this term be applied to either...
Sep 24, 2008
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Mt. Wilson Repeater: Mt. Wilson Repeater
Big Jimbo Putnam—he of LA’s favourite foster sons the Radar Brothers—continues his worship of home taping technology on his debut...
Sep 24, 2008
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Raglani: Of Sirens Born
After a century of twiddling with the knobs of modular synthesizers, splicing magnetic tape, collecting field recordings, borrowing from foreign...
Sep 24, 2008