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   Picked: Indian Mound Mall?!!??!?

   5 Finds yesterday at FYE in the Indian Mound Mall 1. Sonic Youth– Dirty 2. Flaming Lips– Embryonic 3. Flaming Lips– The Terror 4. The National– Trouble Will Find Me 5. SVR– The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan (Yeah, deal with it) This is a lot of ground to cover so expect my next few posts … Continued

   Aug 13, 2013
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   Frightened Rabbit: Pedestrian Verse

   So it seems the tracks have been resurrected with a whole new set of leet buffs and a shiny new trinket. The guild leader must have a new muffler. One of the “undergrad albums” (totally cool for making it clear I’m now in grad school) that never got old for me was Midnight Organ Fight, … Continued

   Jun 18, 2013
3. 8

   My Bloody Valentine: “m b v”

   I take two months away from The Tracks, and the unthinkable, nay the unimaginable, nay the impossible happens: My Bloody Valentine completes AND releases their long-lost follow up to Loveless (1991)… head asplode. Well here I am and here is m b v. Obviously I’d be a fool if I said it’s better…

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   Mar 13, 2013
4. 7

   Post 2012 Post

   So when January 1st rolled around, so did an unspent $25 itunes giftcard that had been lurking around in the cabinet for some years. I spent that shit. First, I downloaded the new Pinback CD, Information Retrieved, then I downloaded a couple Fennesz songs that I had been wanting for awhile, and...

   Jan 14, 2013
5. 6

   Plane Travel Is Seriously Boring

   Thirty plus hours on a plane amounts to this: Eat Watch a movie (Prometheus, The Avengers, The Social Network, Bridesmaids, Salt, MIB 3, or Brave) Listen to some music Sleep Repeat If you ever have to spend double digit hours on a plane, The Seer (2012) by Swans is a good option for step 3.* …...

   Oct 3, 2012
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   Bill Callahan: “Riding For The Feeling”

   It was my last week in NYC, so I decided to stock up on some new music before heading back North. My destination was Generation Records in the West Village, where I found a few used albums and this newish Bill Callahan album, Apocalypse (2011), which has been my favorite of the bunch so far. So...

   Aug 23, 2012
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   Yuck: “Operation”

   If you’re into guitar-based pop, Yuck’s debut self-titled album is probably the closest you’ll get to a modern day combo of Dinosaur Jr, Built To Spill, and Sonic Youth outside of the original thing (seriously, doesn’t the song above sound just like Thurston Moore?). In the larger history of...

   Jan 26, 2012