See? This is why you don’t leave it up to the “listeners.” NPR’s All Songs Considered has released the winners of their readers poll for Best CDs of 2008 … So Far, a list I also put together using, well, just my opinion, a couple weeks back. What do they love? Panic at the...
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Edited to correct the Little Debbies’ date at Peacock Room from the July 17 to the correct date of July 19 Back in October of ’07, I wrote a piece on the Latin metal band Milka and their long journey to what would turn out to be their last album, The Morning After. What...
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So I’m enjoying myself immensely at this weekend’s I-4 Fest when I see Jeff Ilgenfritz from Mumpsy. We chat, make out a little (I kid) and then he mentions something. “Baron Von Bear broke up.” My heart sinks. Not just because they were a great indie-pop band who seemed to have everything already laid...
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In this week’s edition of our little gazette, you’ll find a piece I wrote listing the best albums released so far this year. It’s entirely informal and more of a snapshot of what I couldn’t stop listening to. Below are tracks from each of those albums so you can judge for yourself. Below that,...
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Just got an email that good ol’ Pete Best, (far right. He was dubbed “The Stalker-y One”) that unlucky Liverpudlian who was fired from his role as drummer for the Beatles in ’62. During recording of their first album, George Martin reportedly thought Best couldn’t keep time and Lennon had a problem with him,...
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Mark it: today’s the day local metal band (and past Orlando Weekly Music Award winners) Indorphine have finally acknowledged what many knew was a foregone conclusion. They done broked up. Jimmy and the fellas were definitely one of the more interesting heavy acts to emerge out of our little scene and we’ll keep a...
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Noel Gallagher’s a douche. We can all agree on that. Not as big of a knob as Liam, but a knob nonetheless. When it was announced that Jay-Z would headline the UK’s famous Glastonbury festival this year, Noel’s racist nationalist rant against him made all the papers. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,”...
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Popped over this morning for my daily fix of the Village Voice’s giant (metaphorically AND literally) Tom Breihan, whose rap-centric blog Status Ain’t Hood is the web’s best source for hip-hop analysis that doesn’t just spit out a press release or headline, and guess what? He’s gone. Out the door. Out. Much. Apparently he’s...
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Ah, Live Nation. It’s tough being the big-shot ticket retailer, huh? Yeah, Ticketmaster is evil and whatnot, but they made it look easier than it is. Believe me, I know. My full-time job is to convince people to go out on the town and see some music, which they usually don’t. Ain’t easy. Yesterday,...
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This is all it took. One video. One Ice-T impression. One dance. In case you don’t pay attention to feuds between rappers who don’t matter, Ice-T came out against steel-drum impresario Soulja Boy and the “ringtone rappers” that are ruining the industry. (As if “There Goes the Neighborhood” didn’t already ruin everything 15 years...
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