Tag Archives: CocoRosie

Listen Within Your Means

March 10, 2009 – 10:30 am
A couple weeks back I buffeted a friend with a hastily-issued remonstration regarding a Facebook status update where she urged people to write President Obama and plead the case for financially strapped college students like herself. I responded to her saying that, if anything, Obama needed to help people who could never even dream […]
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Rave, Rave Before the Crying of the Light!

January 27, 2009 – 10:30 am
Favoritism towards an album that marries hippie-hearkening Pop to mutant club beats and a single that revives Boz Scaggs-esque country-boy Disco is one thing, but the love I had for the Disco magic revivalism of last year’s self-titled debut from Hercules and Love Affair was something else entirely. I mean, chunky club beats or […]
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Records at Random, Vol. 76: Tom Tom Club Tom Tom Club

December 5, 2008 – 10:21 am
When I was a little tyke my Mom made a habit of taking me out every once in a while for a special lunch at a cool bistro or pub. I assume it was as a reward for exemplary behavior or an exercise in teaching responsibility. I got to order “grown up” food […]
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Shuffle Songs, Vol. 4 — Baby Ruth®?

November 13, 2008 – 10:30 am
Yes, that is Chunk–the pudgy, habitually dishonest, ice-cream-obsessed kid from the 1980’s flick The Goonies–doing his “truffle shuffle” at the top of this page. And that can only mean one thing…that in today’s post I’m putting Blogarhythms on “shuffle” once again! Named after a song by postpunkelectrogoths New Order, the Paris-based Thieves Like Us are […]
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