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It’s looking like 2008 is going to be another big year for dance music. We haven’t seen the successor to Justice yet (sorry Hot Chip), but I’ve a feeling that we’ll have plenty to go around by the time the year is over.
One of the artists joining the fray is Hercules and Love Affair [...]

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It truly is a shame that the silent era of film is increasingly becoming the domain of film students and critics alone. While most people have no doubt heard of Charlie Chaplin and are at least aware that there was a time when films didn’t have sound, the general public seems to have completely [...]

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I just received my copy of the Vampire Weekend debut in the mail so it’s time for the obligatory Vampire Weekend post. True, they’re already old-hat for those of you that have been keeping up with the ins and outs of the indie blog scene, but there are still plenty folks that are Vampire [...]

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R.E.M. is set to release Accelerate on April 1st. Even though I haven’t really liked anything they’ve put out since Up (a vastly underrated album, by the way), I still get excited with news of a new CD and tour.
They’ve released the first single and video, “Supernatural Superserious”.
R.E.M. - Supernatural Superserious
So far, so good. [...]

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Like a lot of people who were listening to college radio or watching 120 Minutes in the early-90’s, my first exposure to Ween was through their one and only (very minor) hit, “Push th’ Little Daisies”. Even when set amongst the (then) eclectic programming of WKU’s 91.7, this song immediately stood out as something [...]

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