Tag Archives: Bloc Party

Duck vs. Eagle!!!

February 19, 2009 – 10:30 am
In spite of the fact that I’ve had to cut the blog back to just two days a week I will be doing my best to keep it diverse and cover as wide a variety and a as large a number of records as I can every week. That probably means that I’ll be […]
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The Alpinism’s Bumpin’, But I Need the Volume Higher

November 6, 2008 – 10:30 am
Like many Americans I’m still in a bit of a trance after the momentous events of November 4th. My wonderment at the fact that an overwhelming number of my fellow citizens voted for progress by supporting our first African American president is tempered by sadness that a whole bunch of them in a handful […]
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Me and Yoome and Everyone We Know

October 21, 2008 – 10:30 am
Like yesterday’s featurees Clutchy Hopkins and Shawn Lee, Chicago-based Hip-Hop artist Serengeti is another act who made his Blogarhythms debut very early on. He’s also one of a handful of artists who’s returned to this space with some amount of frequency over the ensuing eighteen months. The reasons I’ve paid him such conspicuous attention […]
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So Many Records / So Little Time

October 2, 2008 – 10:30 am
In my write-up on Chairlift’s new album from Tuesday’s “shuffle” post I shared a glimpse of the lack of awareness of my own music collection that I sometimes face. What’s even more absurd than realizing I’ve been regularly listening to a song all my friends have been asking me to find them for months […]
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Count Me In for the Night

September 17, 2008 – 10:40 am
If the “great outdoors” is my “cathedral” than I suppose the discotheque is my altar. Seriously, I’ve had numerous “religious experiences” during my lifetime and nightclubs are the most frequent locations in which they’ve occured. Before you ask, no I wasn’t drunk or on drugs, so these bursts of seemingly supernatural energy weren’t the byproduct […]
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