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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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Scary picture, eh? Scary music.
Coming to us from England, Blurt is a bizarre little beast. Formed by puppeteer and saxophone player (wonder if he can do both at the same time?) Ted Milton in 1980, Blurt has stayed active all this time, releasing 32 albums in just 28 years. It looks like [...]

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As one might imagine, someone as prolific as Bob Dylan has a lot of leftovers and outtakes laying around. Columbia has done a fairly good job trying to round up some of the key tracks and releasing these “bootleg” collections.
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There’s a ton of material on this particular three CD set and I could easily [...]

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