the page above comes from indierock lifers mag magnet who love the third band on our friday neon lights extravaganza glasslands in brooklyn btw enough to include my teenage strides record ears like golden bats in their top 20 albums of 2007. they are far from the only ones smitten by the sharp ties and tunes of songwriter jedediah smith. a brief roll call of admirers includes tasteful bastards suc...
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top ten obscure steely dan lyrics staff top 10 stylus magazine......
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the bad boys out of jazz from the americas. perfection and grace with the best bridge ever. p.s. verplicht leesvoer......
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420 11th march 1978ive never read wuthering heights though i like to imagine its heroine does a pushyarm dance at some point. looking it up on wikipedia howeverai was shocked to realise that kate bush is singing this song as a ghostabut really thats just another oddness on a teetering pile of them in a really excellent article on bush for the late stylus magazine marcello carlin hi dere points out...
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this is a nsfw promo video for jeans longawaited 9th wonder collabo lp jeanius which hits shelves today. i havent seen much real video footage of jean before. i like that shes a total weirdo. and i like that she hangs out with david cross. theres a lot of history behind jeaniusit was recorded back in 2004 but for one reason or another never saw a release date. until recently an unmastered i...
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rabid todd edwards fans dont get mad if i leave something out this is by no means a definitive or informed post. people who have no idea why i need to make that disclaimer youre in for a treat. here are a few youtube clips of music by bloomfield nj based dance producer todd edwards. to my ears this guy is very responsible for a big fat slice of the main ideas in 2step garage speed garage ukg o...
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people are always asking me to write more often well here you go i looked up some info on kci and jojo. simultaneously sweat and suit martin skidmore i dont think hes a hugely interesting rapper t have one of them but the piano is nice. 6 mt kafka the piano riff from kci and jojos all my life appears here without any of the emotional capabilities of either kci or jojo. instead sourc...
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life aint nothing but a good groove a good mix tape to put you in the right mood. beastie boys professor bootie when an institution like the ancienne belgique here in brussels devotes a special event to a musiccultural phenomenon you know the bridge between the underground and the mainstream has been crossed whatever that might imply. a concert evening titled cassette crusts on tape trips cura...
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today i was digging for some info on ways to be annoying and came across the following paragraph commercial break listeria ten commercials ill be glad not to have rammed down my throat anymore this postseason was this dane cook vehicle. how the thirdmost annoying man in stand up mencia williams catchphrase which cook keeps trying to find new ways to emphasize theres only oneoctober ...
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its hard to believe that for one year week after week every tuesday night me and a few friends including pretty much the entire staff here currently have subjected ourselves to so many painfully bad movies. as we reach the one year anniversary of bad movie night which enjoyed a brief tenure on this site in the form of the field sobriety wednesday column before being retired late last year followin...
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three weeks ago i wrote about the trippy new orange underground website and advertising campaign on behalf of cheetos. the site and the blog are both pretty well designed and the idea behind the campaign is unique and intricate. goodby silverstein the agency behind the orange underground campaign clearly put a lot of time and energy into it. theres just one problem no one and i mean literally almo...
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in the afternoon i used live search to find more information on celeb scandals.. and this is one of the many results i found the iits 2007 pop culture hall of fame nominees miscellany december 15th 2007 by andrew unterberger the school books say it can be here again possibly our last day of nominees herewe might have one more category im not sure yetand this time were talking about..well all th...
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note if you skip this entire post please at least watch the video at the bottom it sums this all up in less than 2 minutes. put in a popularrock cd that is 10 years old. then listen to one from 5 years ago. then listen to a brand new one. what is the first thing that you notice well besides your fickle and slightly suspect taste in music the difference in volume. it jumps out of your speake...
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1. radiohead in rainbows una vez mas una de las mas grandes bandas del siglo pasado a sobrepasado las espectativas y roto con lo moldes que ellos mismos antes habian creado. in rainbows es el saptimo album de estudio del grupo musical britanico radiohead. el album fue lanzado inicialmente el 10 de octubre de 2007 como una descarga de ficheros mp3 sin ninguna proteccian drm y permitiendo pagar al...
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weblogmusic year end 100 songs singles 2006 1. earth intruders bjork las mas audaces sinfonaas de los altimos diez o quince aaos han provenido de ella. su masica cala profundo en las receptoras almas. la belleza pareciera provenir de su cuerpo con serena limpieza suntuosa. la sublimidad la esplendidez discurre con persistente naturalidad en sus intrapidos discos. ella la mas original de los arti...
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john hartford is described in his amg bio as a multitalented oldtime musician a riverboat captain a satirical songwriter a oneman showman of exceptional talents and one of the founders of both progressive country music and oldtime string music revivalism. impressive. add to that list master of the fivestring banjo and session man on the byrds seminal sweetheart of the rodeo album. given his many t...
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advertising pawn revamped its navigation system to access brand tributes hall of pawns and other random articles from a fancy top bar. advertising pawn now has bookmarking icons at the bottom of every post for you to spread the advertising orgy. advertising pawn has been visited by 11000 pawns since its second birth feel welcome to drop by again because most of them wonat. advertising pawn feels ...
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these are the top 25 albums of 2007 along with the top 2 songs from each. you can stream the songs in the imeem audio player to the left. however i recommend using this standalone player. its much easier to use. enjoy.......
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thrill jockey turns fifteen and is throwing an anniversary show at logan square auditorium december 1415. artists include the sea and cake califone the fiery furnaces trans am arbouretum freakwater adult. the zincs bobby conn brokeback eleventh dream day archer prewitt pit er pat field music and more. whats most interesting is that no lineup will be announced so i guess youd better plan on spendin...
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as promised today is jason day here at tltp this dude came through with the hold steady art brut ticket as promised and even made it over to the gingerman before me coming all the way from south bend. cheers are you kidding me stylus is already out with their 50 favorite albums of 2007. seems about a month early if you ask me. twilight sad with a nice 15 showing amongst some big names. i lo...
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reviewed by nick southall excerpt english language pop often suffers at the tongues and dictionaries of nonnative speakers who treat the idiom with too much reverence afraid to corrupt it for the sake of imagination or insinuation but this isnt a problem for phoenix. produced by phoenix and recorded in our basement alphabetical is typified by sweet harmonies gently understated melodies and easy rh...
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top ten postrock albums. leaving off tortoise and sigur ros seems a mistake.......
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...upon this place via stylus... welcome a special thanks to todd co. at stylus for inviting me to ramble on about hiplife in their space. watch out for a couple hiplife podcasts curated by me here httpstylusmagazine.comstypodnew posts coming very soon. promise.meantime i also keep this blog which some of you might find amusing httpwww.awesometapesfromafrica.blogspot.com......
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...2004i really like this albumn heres some reviews from william b. swygart on 20041025.its out there ages ago but i just heard it in late 2006. hehe i know im those retard type and not up2date.httpwww.stylusmagazine.comreview.phpid2451all content copyright 20012007 stylusmagazine.com......
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