Tag Archives: Joy Division

Shuffle Songs, Vol. 7 — Shuffle, Step, But Change…Not So Much

March 26, 2009 – 10:30 am
Since this blog’s inception a few years back London-based composer Shawn Lee has appeared in our pages no fewer than three times. His most recent appearance was of course in Tuesday’s post, where I featured his newest LP Soul in the Hole alongside metal-masked rapper/producer DOOM’s new record Born Like This. But […]
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Like Stockholm Syndrome, in Reverse!

February 11, 2009 – 10:30 am
Yesterday evening I got a Facebook message from a friend of mine—a DJ, producer and soon-to-be label-head—expressing enmity for a certain band who will go unnamed. I defended their right to exist and he conceded to most of my points, but maintained that if—like him—I lived closer to their stomping grounds I’d be “begging […]
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“Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign”

January 13, 2009 – 10:30 am
After spending the last weeks of 2008 compiling my year-end wrap-up here on Blogarhythms I dedicated the first week and change of 2009 to drafting the more exhaustive year-in-review me and some friends put together every year over at Imageyenation. That means the last month of my life has consisted largely of sifting through […]
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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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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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