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My band Apple of Discord has a really cool show coming up Saturday 10/18 at the Auction House. We’ll be playing an old school set with former drummer Nelson Ciron, playing songs from all of our previous albums. Also playing are our good friends and labelmates The Silence Kit (who have a fantastic new album [...]

- where i’ve been: monica & i moved at the beginning of june. we started out looking for something older and with character but guess what, character takes a lot of freaking work! we ended up opting for a 9 year old house in the heart of suburbia. honestly, i would be just as happy [...]

the new paul westerberg album, 49:00 is available as a single download for 49¢:
And we have lift-off: Download 49:00 from Amazon MP3
It’s one MP3 file, with a whole mess of songs, so even though it’s only one download, you’re getting plenty of songs. Some things to note: In order to get the album for $0.49 [...]

this would be my third show at JB’s in as many weeks, following the constantines show below and having to leave early during buried beds/american music club. i’d kind of been run down from packing all day and thought about staying in but i’ve been a big fan of EPDM for a while now and [...]

“constantines make music for people who like rock. everyone else can go listen to vampire weekend.” - peter botham, the news journal
i woke up on my couch early sunday evening in a complete panic, thinking that i had slept through that night’s constantines show. i threw on a shirt, jumped into my car and arrived [...]

photo by chriszak under creative commons’ attribution 2.0 generic license.
nicole & i went to see LSF at the fillmore at the TLA (or is it TLA at the fillmore?). it had been a while since my last visit, which was well before it becoming a live nation venue and quite possibly could have been the [...]

the fact that there is so much i didn’t listen to this year makes me loathe to call this a “best of” list (also illustrated by the lack of debut albums). but i did enjoy the following records quite a bit, so you should check them out if you haven’t:
feist - the reminder
pela - anytown [...]

woke up sore the next morning from saturday night’s M.I.A. show. i’d lost my cell phone since tuesday, so trying to meet up with alan & sara beforehand was a hassle and a half. i actually used a pay phone for the first time in years. did you know that it’s fifty cents to make [...]

the station that introduced me to pavement, tsunami, treepeople, rodan, velocity girl and countless other bands during my college years (and still doing so today) - WPRB princeton - has changed its business model to that of member-supported radio:
103.3 WPRB Princeton, the 14,000 watt non-profit radio station located on Princeton University’s campus, is [...]

photo by oliver j. lopena: oliverlopena.com
despite what the photo above would indicate, last night’s metric show was disappointing. while the energy and packed house was there, they played too many new songs (at one point there were three in a row) that may or may not make up the next album. there’s nothing wrong with [...]