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relatively speaking, decent seats at the tower aren’t cheap but i’d never seen feist before so why not. while 2004’s let it die had some good songs on it, it never really grabbed me the way that the reminder has. it’s probably one of my favorite albums this year.
monica & i had a quick and [...]

“Summer MD” mix - this running mix ended up becoming a bit more… flamboyant than i’d originally intended. i love the feist remix and should have replaced the bjork track with the GZA’s “gold”.
01. compton quieten down (NWA vs. MIA) - dj twombly
02. peak out - girl talk
03. monster hospital (MSTRKRFT remix) - metric
04. 1234 [...]

my drummer brian also plays with adam & dave’s bloodline (feat. adam & dave from marah), who have a great new record out called love. it’s a really varied and interesting album, with super fun straight up rock songs (”corner sloop”, “twist the knife”) and nods to everything from synth rock (”where you are”) to [...]

mike was so enthusiastic for us to see mono at the first unitarian last wednesday that he sprung for the tickets and drove. pat and i bought the earplugs and i’ve never more grateful to myself for thinking ahead of time. we got there just in time to catch world’s end girlfriend and it was [...]

- our friends bamboo shoots were on conan freaking o’ brien monday night! they won an mtvU contest where the winner gets a recording deal from epic records. how insane is that? it was about three years ago that i met avir & karl through alan at a new brunswick basement show, and now i’m [...]

$20 is pretty much my cutoff amount for going to shows. i’ll make an exception if it’s a band i really like, it’s at an interesting venue or an artist that i’ll never see again. but other than that i try to save my $$$ (this also offsets monica’s ticket-spending habits; she once paid an [...]

spoon was sold out at the bowery last weekend and i had no desire to see them at the starlight, but when maria told me that they were playing the stone pony (!) on tuesday i figured why the heck not? i hadn’t been there in years. i recalled asbury park as being run down, [...]

for god’s sake, come out to this.
our new record came out today and you can buy it from engineer records, stickfigure distro, interpunk, revHQ , amazon and many more. get a copy today!
and to start things off, we got a nice review from skylinepress.net:
Indie is a genre I find myself bored with at an exponential [...]

the new apple of discord CDs came in a few weeks ago, i’m really happy with the way they came out. it will be out 2/27 as a co-release from engineer records & azteca records, made available through stickfigure distro in the US, sonic unyon in canada, shellshock in the UK & CMS in germany.
to [...]

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i got tickets for this well over a month ago, before the eagles decided to turn their season completely around and ended up hosting a wild card game against the hated new york football giants on the same night. it was a toss-up between sitting under a blanket in my [...]