Steven B.

Hot Chip and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy taking Hot Chip's rather wonderful I Feel Better back to the lab to create a whole new monster. On paper it sounds amazing, and indeed it is. Hot Bonnie, Prince Chip, Bonnie 'Chip' Billy, etc. You get it. Enjoy.
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Flowers are blooming, the days are getting longer, summer festivals are drawing nearer, and somewhere in a field a small freckled child is petting a newborn goat. Yes, spring is not only upon us, it’s given us a  hug and a big sloppy kiss. And if that weren’t enough, we now have yet another reason...
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Remember that band that had a huge hit a few years ago with that song called ‘Children’? It might have soundtracked a video game you played at some point, or an ad for something fun and relevant. You know, they won a few Emmys or Oscars or something, probably fucked those models they sang...
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Wouldn't it be great if that was a photo of an actual product? Well, it might just become reality in the near future. Rock Band, makers of that game with the fake plastic instruments, recently announced Rock Band Network...
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You're sitting down to dress, and you're a mess You look in the mirror You look in your eyes Say you realize Everybody goes, leaving those who fall behind...
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Admittedly, most of my recent experience with anything Irish related has come from watching The Wire (and even then usually only when someone died), but I do have fond memories of the day growing up. A veritable tribute to the wonders of food dye: green clothes, green food, green drinks, green cards and green...
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This week, music and film lovers who didn’t like their own world all that much had quite the pick from imaginary (better?) places to live. Plastic Beach, Sisterworld, Logorama, and whatever the fuck place it is that Flash Delirium lives, let’s call it Flashlandia™. Personally, while Logorama would definitely be trippy as hell, I...
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Yet another beautiful person to leave us far before their time. Fuck this. Thank you for EVERYTHING. Mark Linkous, you'll be missed, and you'll be remembered.
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See, that's one of the benefits of being Damon Albarn, you can just pick up the phone and ask Lou Reed to sing on your new album...
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I'm just me I can't deny I'm neither here, there nor anywhere...
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It was the mid-nineties and I was living in a nothing town, under the noisy flight path of an airport. As a recent high school graduate, I was working double/triple shifts in a coffee shop at said airport just to get OUT OF THERE. I had taken the year off to work as much...
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First reaction: WOW. We receive a LOT of music, and listen to a hell of a lot too. And while we often run into songs -one-off songs- we like, it sure isn't often that an entire album punches us in the stomach and runs off with our lunch money. Cloud Nothings' Turning On has done...
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It's been a good week. First the announcement that Broken Social Scene are playing at Primavera Sound in May, and now this, a new song! It's a taster from their upcoming album 'Forgiveness Rock Record', out May 4th. Enjoy!
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hew, it's been quite a few days for the music blogging community. What happened? This week Google decided to take down (i.e. completely delete) a number of large and smaller music blogs hosted on the popular Blogger and Blogspot services. For supposed copyright infringement. While in the past, Blogger would simply delete the offending...
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These are dark days. Rain. Cold. Darkness. Unemployment. Swine flu. And it's times like these that call for futuristic rap crews like Die Antwoord. Coming on like some twisted Chernobylesque Chris Cunningham, Flight of the Conchords, Chris Morris, Tim Westwood, David Lynch hybrid love child, Die Antwoord hail from ever-cooler South Africa, and have...
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