Tag Archives: Yeah Yeah Yeah’s

So All You Fly Mothers, Get On Out There and Dance, Dance I Say…

February 2, 2009 – 10:30 am
It’s true, Merriweather Post Pavilion surprised me with its unexpected adoption of club thump and trunk rattling shudder, easily becoming my favorite record of the new year so far. I mean I love indieternativewhateveryouwannacallit just fine, but I love synthesizers and drum-machine beats too, so a record that combines the two is more likely […]
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A Miracle of Modern Science

September 23, 2008 – 10:30 am
As proven by yesterday’s post (and my support for Barack Obama) I love a good (and possibly t-shirt-ready) slogan. As it happens, today’s featurees, Brooklyn-based avant-garde Rock quintet TV On the Radio, happen to have (unwittingly) provided me with a striking, and unprecedentedly practical, slogan a few years ago. During late Summer of ‘06 I […]
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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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“Not a Preacher or a Teacher or an Electrician, a Biter or a Fighter or a Politician”

June 24, 2008 – 10:37 am
Yesterday’s post was my attempt to start the first official week of Summer 2008 here in the Northern Hemisphere of planet Earth off with a bang. I mistakenly thought I’d be able to keep things bangin’ with more warm-weather party-time music, but a gray & gloomy rain-drenched Monday put a (literal) damper on all […]
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