December 2009
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L-I-V-I-N →
Bang this.
Best of the Rest →
Merry Christmas everyone, and thanks for reading our silly little blog. Instead of posting my Top 5 of the past year (like you all really care what order I have Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors,…
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Ghostgarden for the IPhone
So, uh, this is bizarre. But still, dope that people are connecting exploration of the web with exploration of the actual world. IPhone scavenger hunts have to be right around the corner.
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An Anarchy Christmas Miracle
Some big music news from across the pond:
Rock band Rage Against the Machine ended Simon Cowell’s four year domination of the Christmas charts tonight after a hugely popular Facebook campaign helped the Los Angeles nu-metallers snatch the Christmas number one slot from X-factor’s Joe McElderry.
More than half a million people downloaded the band’s famously anti-authoritarian and...
Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Indie Bands →
My favorite:
Vampire Weekend Bros who try to make out with girls at concerts by relating to them via old Nickelodeon shows. “Remember Pete & Pete??”
headunderwater:
Below are some of my favorites. I probably fall into the Fleet Foxes sterotype. Actually I know I do.
The XX Blog enthusiasts who thought wearing a keffiyeha was awesome.
Passion Pit Bros vaguely interested in listening to...
No Depression →
Both lyrically and musically, this album provides everything one might expect from a 2009 collaboration between Ryan Adams and Caitlin Cary. Purists might be more inclined to compare Buddy…
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From Beck’s Record Club: Jamie Lidell and Feist covering Skip Spence’s “War in Peace” with Wilco’s guitarist just murdering it, over and over again
This is getting ridiculous
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Tune Up →
Ski feat. Mos Def-Taxi from Creative Control on Vimeo.
Mos Def is all the way back.
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The Ninth Annual Year in Ideas - NYTimes.com →
(via austinkleon)
They had me at “artificial car noise”
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undomondo:
Toro Y Moi- Talamak on Vimeo (via bryan bush)
Ferrari through streets of Paris in 1978
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Tom Waits Interview.
meganmcisaac:
smut-to-go: aar0n:
This is a great interview. Here are a few of my favourite bits :
Q: What’s heaven for you?
A: Me and my wife on Rte. 66 with a pot of coffee, a cheap guitar, pawnshop tape recorder in a Motel 6, and a car that runs good parked right by the door.
Q: What’s wrong with the world?
A: We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused...
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