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Seems like it’s been awhile since I’ve cut up one of these sessions, but there’s no better reason to pick up the habit again than a Nada Surf appearance on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic.
The new record, Lucky, has crept up on me. Certainly it’s what you’d expect from a Nada Surf album: catchy melodies with […]

Anti sent out a release about Tim Fite’s upcoming release, Fair Ain’t Fair (more below), which gave me good reason to poke around his MySpace page.
Lo and behold, Fite is offering a download of Out on the Line, a B-side to a 7-inch released in the UK that I actually found at Academy Records in […]

In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, Mobius Band is offering a free six-song EP of covers called Love Will Reign Supreme. I got particularly excited to see they covered the National’s Baby, We’ll Be Fine, a song, in my estimation, that is romantic in its vulnerable and contrite writing (”I don’t know how to do […]

I stopped by Red Hot Robot on my way home from work Wednesday evening. Though the store didn’t have the Legends of Rap trading cards, the owner turned me on to the Gangsta Rap Coloring Book by artist Aye Jay of San Francisco.
With a foreword by J-Zone and afterword by Sacha Jenkins, the […]

Thanks to Chris at Gorilla vs. Bear for posting this video for the New Pornographers’ Myriad Harbour, my favorite song of 2007.

Also, Editors in Tempe on Tuesday night = great show. Unfortunately, that’s about as coherent as it will get right now (12:42 a.m.).

UK’s Editors make their way to Tempe for a show at Marquee Theatre in Tempe with Hot Hot Heat and Louis XIV on Tuesday night. (Buy tickets.)
I interviewed bassist Russell Leetch and wrote a bit about it here. Favorite quote, after I asked him how critics differ in England and the U.S.: “We always get […]

I’m not one to often use exclamation points to get my point across (OK, maybe sometimes). But I think after watching the new video for Meanest Man Contest’s Throwing Away Broken Electronics, you’ll be pretty amped up, too.
What’s not to like about the video, directed by Greg Tuzin? Slow motion. Women in bikinis with […]

I’m guessing (hoping) you’ve heard Bubble Pop, the first track off the forthcoming Del album Eleventh Hour, due out March 11 on Definitive Jux.
Without question, Del has provided one of the most unique deliveries and distinctive voices in hip-hop since he dropped 1991’s Parliament/Funkadelic-inspired I Wish My Brother George Was Here. Not only that, he […]

I miss Latyrx. I’m not saying I don’t like the solo work from Lyrics Born, because I do. Let’s just say if you haven’t heard 1997’s Latyrx (The Album), there’s a major void in your collection.
Anyway, that really has nothing to do with Lyrics Born’s new album – called Everywhere At Once and due […]

I’ll admit it: I don’t know who Super Extra Bonus Party is. They described themselves in an e-mail as “Dublin-based noise-merchants.” Bonus points for being Irish (I am a Murphy, after all).
But what really caught my eye was the fact that one of their tracks, Everything Flows, was remixed by Cadence Weapon, a favorite […]