May 2012
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A commercial for Black Tambourine’s EP of Ramones covers out today on Slumberland Records. Purchase OneTwoThreeFour and you get four of the band’s favorite Ramones songs on two seven-inch records with sleeves designed by Matthew Edwards of the indiepop blog Skatterbrain. For more info, and to support Black Tambourine’s reunion Kickstarter...
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April 2012
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Grass Widow’s album trailer for Internal Logic set to be released May 29, 2012 on HLR Records. The video features the band members wearing hip white lab coats at their vinyl presser Rainbo Records in the San Fernando Valley.
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March 2012
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Impose Magazine Photo Set: SXSW 2012 by... →
I became an accidental music photographer at SXSW this year. You can even search for my name and I come up as an author. Up front and center for Thee Oh Sees at Panache Booking’s Pre-Party, I met an Impose Magazine staffer who believed that if I was bold enough to risk my life in the pit I must’ve had some decent photos to share of my time in Austin thus far. During...
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Carrie quotes a line from the Philip Larkin poem “For Sidney Bechet” and gives her bandmates the “I should manage an Amoeba store and quit this band because of my knowledge” look.
Carrie Brownstein, Rebecca Cole, and Mary Timony of Wild Flag shopped for Lionel Richie, Yes, Iron Maiden, Bon Iver, The La’s and more at Amoeba Hollywood.
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Asked some friends for their SX picks →
Will you be joining me Wednesday morning at KGSR’s live broadcast for breakfast and Michael Kiwanuka? The fun starts at 7:30am with The Lumineers, followed by M. Ward, and then Ben Kweller before Mr. Kiwanuka.
…my friends who write the World’s Best Blogs.
Music: Michael Kiwanuka I was hipped to Kiwanuka in Paris last Spring with only the caveat of “you’re going to fucking love...
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February 2012
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Tonight I watched all the live action Oscar-nominated short films the proper way: on the big screen. My vote’s for Tuba Atlantic.
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Suicide Squeeze Records: 2012 Singles Series Kicks... →
Suicide Squeeze is pleased to announce the 2012 line-up for its annual singles series (see Pitchfork February 2). The series boasts an impressive array of talent that includes the likes of King Tuff, White Woods (Julia Kugel of the Coathangers), Nobunny, Wax Idols, Cloud Nothings, Juliana Barwick and a previously announced contribution from Iron & Wine.
The Suicide Squeeze singles series...
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Download Al Lover’s Heavy Hippies: cheapdrugsfreelove for free.
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January 2012
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Bake Sale is an all-lady quartet from Memphis blending ’60s girl group harmonies with fuzzy ’90s indie rock. The band released their first 7” on Grand Palace Records in March 2011, toured all summer along the east coast, and performed at an unofficial (but Goner approved) Gonerfest show in September.
December 2011
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