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Superdrag live review

Superdrag: The Secret Handshake Thus Returns Fully Intact

31 October 07

One can learn a lot of life’s little lessons when making a trip to Chicago to watch Superdrag’s reunion concert. For instance, Sean Moeller has an instinctive knowledge of when I am stuck I traffic, waitresses in Chicago can’t...

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La Blogotheque

Paris, Lost in Texas - Episode 2

31 October 07

70.2 - Paris, Lost in Texas - Episode 2
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Way out in East Austin – so far east that it's probably another city altogether – I wound in my rental car, knowing that the Wrecking Force van carrying the two-man La Blogotheque crew of Mattieu and Chryde, Red Hunter of Peter & the Wolf and...

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Casiotone For The Painfully Alone

Ghost Towns Can Be People Too

31 October 07

In came an e-mail from Owen Ashworth late last week, expounding on a show he played in Houghton, Michigan, in the northern territory…

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Golden Bear lasso'd

Golden Bear Gets Lasso'd

29 October 07

Some of the material you’re about to read will smack of datedness. The chronicles that Chris “Grizzle” Gregory lays out below came about a month ago, but if there’s anything that’s more interesting than reading about what someone loved last...

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A Week With P.J. Harvey's "White Chalk": Day 2

29 October 07

Rather than describe “the willies”, I’ll take the same route that Ms. Harvey takes and give them to you:
“Hit her with a hammer/Teeth smashed in/Red tongue’s twitching/Look inside her skeleton”

In this song (with the innocuous title “The...

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Andrew Bird featuring Dianogah

Getting Inside With His Feathers And Leaving A Yellow Glowing Glow Behind

29 October 07

There’s a farmhouse somewhere out amongst the harvested, chewed up and spit out corn and soybean stalks and stems just an hour north of here …

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Dirty Projectors Encore

Becoming That Pissed Off Punk In One Easy Step

26 October 07

Dave Longstreth has been guilty of it, guilty of it again and again, so the story – all firsthand, none of the cribbed meanderings – goes. He’s been rattled with what started as …

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A Week With P.J. Harvey's "White Chalk": Day 1

25 October 07

On the cover of her new album, PJ Harvey does not smile. She does not smirk, nor sport a glimmer in her eye, nor does she appear to be writhing in some sort of existential agony (like many of...

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Pygmalion Festival

Pygmalion Festival: Wish You Were Here, Andrew Bird Was

24 October 07

Regarding music festivals: there are a lot of them. Forgetting, for a moment, any of your personal concerns with corporate sponsorship, many festivals actually seem to be quite good. Bonnaroo, since graduating from its strictly hippie roots, puts on a...

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Limbeck

The Blues Of The Strapped, So It Goes

24 October 07

So much of bad luck is perception. So much of the gravitas that doubles as the aftermath of bad luck can be exaggerated or diminished depending on the tones the recipient …

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