Tag Archives: Of Montreal

Lips, Sweat and Fake Asian Names

March 5, 2009 – 10:30 am
This morning I woke to a local news story about an aspiring Hip-Hop mogul caught up in a plot involving drugs, guns and kidnapping just a few towns away. While at the local news outlet’s site I noticed they have a new Twitter feed, which I clicked, intending to “follow” it. The first […]
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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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Jon & Brion & Robert & Wyatt (and Hot Chip and of Montreal)

January 15, 2009 – 10:30 am
So tell me, is January too early in the year to start playing favorites with and making predictions about which albums are going to end up being the year’s best? I sure as hell thought so when I posted about Animal Collective’s newest opus last Wednesday, otherwise I would’ve come right out and admitted […]
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“You’re the Best, Around…” (El Keter’s Favorite Albums of 2008, Day Four)

January 6, 2009 – 10:30 am
They’re the best around; the fourth and final day of El Keter’s favorites of 2008.
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“You’re the Best, Around…” (El Keter’s Favorite Albums of 2008, Day Three)

January 5, 2009 – 10:30 am
  Out of all the records I enjoyed during 2008 I chose 20 of them as my favorites.  I put them all in alphabetical order and wrote about them.  Here are another five… Adorably precocious Swedish Indie-Pop chanteuse Lykke Li out-Feist-ed Canadian Indie-Folk femme Leslie Feist simply by being…well…more feisty. The nigh-unpronounceable newcomer’s initially self-released debut Youth Novels […]
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