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Yeasayer in L.A. this week

Posted on April 20, 2008 | 7 Comments
I never expect anything new to be even borderline decent, so when c4 threw up that Free Blood post and included a track from Yeasayer on the end, I didn't expect to dig it as much as I did. Yeasayer is Anand Wilder, Chris Keating, Ira Wolf Tuton, Luke Fasano, and they are definitely more than decent. They make like, what Bollywood and Tinariwen would've collaboratively contributed to new wave
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Excepter. Burgers. Brilliant.

Posted on April 15, 2008 | 3 Comments

Brilliant. I'm not really sure if I've been living in a hole or what have you, but this band has like 15 releases and I'd never heard them until a few nights ago when this kid who totally shoulda been my high school sweetheart posted the video for 'Burgers' on MySpace. I've included it here because it's the least embarrassing (or most accessible) of the 12341234123 videos on their website you can watch/download/laugh at/use to find the deeper meaning of life:

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You can have some Free Blood, but only if you don’t have Coachella tickets.

Posted on April 12, 2008 | 2 Comments

What's up with all the boy/girl robot duos that (as of last night) have begun to invade Southern California? It's strange because I'm not usually a fan of this crap, but I think I hear a new one every day, and not one of them has been bad. I can't help but think that my judgement is impaired, or this music is really easy to make. Regardless, they are spouting

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LISMORE: a bunch of prostitutes who make crappy electropop

Posted on April 2, 2008 | No Comments
Seriously dude I'm only repeating what they wrote on their myspace page, "We are all prostitutes," it says, so I figured it'd be ok to tell you that Lismore is a bunch of prostitutes. Or just two prostitutes. And I think they're dating or married or some shit. There's a girl prostitute (Penelope, who's totally hot) and a guy prostitute (Stephen, who ain't so bad himself, but I'm a dude
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