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Bad Credit No Credit: "Shit Hits The Fan"
John Le Carré recently wrote an article in The New Yorker about the A Scanner Darkly-esque working conditions of...
Sep 29, 2008
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Lien: "6 Mill Of 185"
There’s an ancient remedy to clearing that long-standing “unsigned” hurdle: instead of mailing three-track demos to every imprint in the...
Sep 29, 2008
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Max Tundra: "Orphaned"
“There are no modern-day computers on this record,” Max Tundra explains in the press release for his upcoming album Parallax...
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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The Shining Hour: "Before You Know It"
The Ramones’ promise that anyone can make rock music inheres not in the DIY laptop studio but at the...
Sep 19, 2008
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Thin Films: "Ticking Hour (No Vocal)"
What is it with these artists who drop one bomb and then vanish forever into the crowd? It’s like they’re...
Sep 16, 2008
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Abe Vigoda: "Dead City/Waste Wilderness"
Abe Vigoda is often described as “tropical” or “calypso punk.” That might be accurate if jagged rock music drowning in...
Sep 15, 2008