A recent glowing Pitchfork review of The Blow’s new album, Paper Television described one track, “The Big U,” as “‘Drop It Like It’s Hot’ for the emo set”. This gets it almost, but not quite exactly right.

The Blow specializes in combining hi-fi hip hop’s flamboyance with the idiosyncratic intimacy that’s long been characteristic of bands [...]

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Week 6 is upon us already and here’s more of what I hope you consider the good stuff. And by the way, this podcast repeats itself over at the Portland Mercury every Sunday under the link Pod ‘N Vod. How about that for technological prowess?
1. The Decemberists - The Soldiering Life from the album Her [...]

I found this image and caption over at JaneDark.com. Disturbingly accurate.

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If you haven’t completely booked up your Halloween evening with yet another costume party you should make room to visit Powells Books tonight to hear Amy Sedaris, one of the funniest women on the planet. She’ll be reading from her new book, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence. A guide to being the perfect [...]

Bound Stems
It’s time for the College Music Journal’s annual convention. Here’s an article on how Bound Stems will be spending their week at the shindig in New York City. They don’t call it a ‘Music Marathon’ for nothing.

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Having just read about the continuing collapse of national daily newspaper circulation numbers it surprises me that I would come across another contender in the music magazine print world. Maybe it’s aptly titled - welcome to Dummy.

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Tonight over at the Doug Fir the Silversun Pickups do their thing. My buddy Josh Kneedler turned me on to them and you will not be disappointed. He posted a streaming MP3 for you to hear, click.

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