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My favorite song on the new Arcade Fire LP, the Suburbs. “Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains …” Tweet This Post
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Easily one of the top ten best bands of the 1990′s: Tweet This Post
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In honor of the impending release of her new album, here’s Joanna Newsom performing “Peach, Plum, Pear” live. She’s a bit of an acquired taste, but I’m definitely a fan. Tweet This Post
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My mid-1990′s nostalgia continues with “The New Nathan Detroits” by Braid. In hindsight, they were very influenced by Jawbox, but that doesn’t diminish their greatness — in fact, I wish bands still made this style of post-punk indie rock today. Tweet This Post
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I was actually at this show — and it was incredible. Here is John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats with Owen Pallet of Final Fantasy performing the Mountain Goats classic “Alpha Omega.” It gave me chills at the show, and it gives me chills now. Tweet This Post
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Guys, before emo became a national embarrassment, it was an underground movement to take punk rock into more personal territory. I was a huge and unapologetic fan of the second wave emo scene in the mid-1990′s, which was spearheaded by a great band called Cap’n Jazz. Cap’n Jazz would break up and form the genesis [...]
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Ah, Vampire Weekend. Who ever thought I would be a fan of a bunch of Ivy League preppies influenced by African pop music? Nonetheless, here I am. All I can say is that they’re a million times more interesting than the last group of prep school phonies, The Strokes. Tweet This Post
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It’s been over a year since their last record, but Tina is finally a fan. I always was. This is a fairly lush and interesting departure from their first record: Tweet This Post
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This is a song that I listened to A LOT when my girls were just born. The video didn’t actually come out until some time after. Tweet This Post