Tag Archives: Sparks

The Only Way I’m Telefoning Tel Aviv is if I Can Reverse the Charges

February 26, 2009 – 10:30 am
I know that having Blogarhythms cut back to only two posts a week is pretty sucky. But the honest truth is that if the state of my financial affairs doesn’t improve really soon things could get a whole lot suckier. Obviously I’m not the only one facing fiduciary difficulties, as the entire country, and much […]
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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 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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Break Hearts, Not Banks

September 25, 2008 – 10:30 am
If you live in the United States and were watching television last night chances are good you caught the address outgoing President George W. Bush gave on the state of the US economy. And if you saw his fumbling, uneasily delivered speech you’re now fully aware of the financial Armageddon that’s apparently lurking on […]
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Records Reissues at Random Vol. 62 - Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth

August 8, 2008 – 11:57 am
A couple weekends ago I dumped a bunch of albums on my best friend and housemate m. Cody’s iPod. A lot of them were records I recommended that she wanted to give a whirl. But a few of them were requests, mostly records she owned on tape or CD, some of which had […]
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