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December 2007
She is the Knot Mess
12/28/2007 12:36 P GMT-05
(photo from Chris Frump's Flickr)Friday at the end of a weirdworkweek. What's that? You could use another Best Favorite Song of 2007? One that puts the "awesome" back in "fucking awesome?" Count you
I Been Waiting So Long for the Judgment
12/27/2007 9:11 P GMT-05
What do you do when you got nowhere to plug in your bass? Play the mailbox.The La Blogothèque guys - via Austin-based Hecho En Cine - dipped themselves in some O'Death, set the band to porch-wreckin':
Category: Nothing Matters but the MUSIC
There Will Be Bloggregate
12/27/2007 4:58 P GMT-05
...or something to that effect. When I first realized I'd have neither will nor way to do a 2007 version of the monster, I rang up the clever hardworking elves over Hype Machine way. They said Yes! My moustache went all a-
Category: Nothing Matters but the MUSIC
And Never Let Go And Never Let Go
12/24/2007 4:06 A GMT-05
(photo via)Last handfuls of 2007 drifting out between the digits. Hurry, children! Not much time left! Everyone's packing the dirt down on the old year so's they can start digging a hole for the new'un. But w
Category: Nothing Matters but the MUSIC
O Little Town of Y'lehurggarpythh
12/21/2007 9:10 P GMT-05
(picture from The Last Christmas, via ectoplasmosis)Is it me or do the holidays get more frantic each year? I know it's a tired complaint, but it's so fucking hard to find a good virgin, and jumping through hoops to get your
O'Death! Tonight! And Tomorrow!
12/21/2007 2:33 A GMT-05
O'Death (myspace) starts a two-night headlining stint at the Merc tonight, and I can't think of a better way to shake off the pre-holiday crazies. Made sure to see them twice during CMJ, though I missed the 23-song sweaty Union Po
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You're Probably Doing It Wrong
12/16/2007 6:21 P GMT-05
(original photo)Do you take your fire and brimstone with just a hint of nutmeg? Prefer eternal damnation come peppermint-flavored? Pine-scented?Then! Brothers and sisters! Ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages!&n
Category: Nothing Matters but the MUSIC
I'll Never Understand This Human Sentimentality
12/14/2007 8:55 P GMT-05
NBC's remaking the old series Knight Rider as a TV movie, which is great, because I needed two more hours of television to not watch. (Where's my Baywatch Nights feature film, huh? PRIORITIES PEOPLE.) Ain't It Cool
Category: Nothing Matters but the MUSIC
There Might Be Bloggregate
12/14/2007 3:57 P GMT-05
Stay tuned. Will let everyone know when there are concrete details. Am hopeful. Thanks to those who've written in with kind words and offers of baked goods and whatnot.UPDATE: Moustache coming in nicely. Shows p
Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell Presents His Report
12/13/2007 3:12 P GMT-05
Category: Whatever, Man
There Will Not Be Bloggregate
12/07/2007 11:02 P GMT-05
It's not happening. Not here, at least.For the past couple years I've aggregated bloggers' top ten album lists, pulling together already-published Best-Ofs from around the web into a cross-referenced consensus. I gave it
Category: Nothing Matters but the MUSIC
Getting Out of Having Gotten Out
12/05/2007 12:42 P GMT-05
People have trouble pigeonholing The Avett Brothers' (myspace) sound, which is good, but resort to calling them stuff like "prog-folk" or "grunge bluegrass," which is bad. Despite surprising tonal shifts and an emo
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Cigarettes, Alcohol, and Pepsi
12/03/2007 11:57 P GMT-05
(picture via) If there's one thing the holidays are all about, it's suffering. That's why, like a hopeful tot on Christmas Eve, I've been watching my RSS feed for an update from the fantastic-but-dead Musical Fruitcake.&nbs
Category: Nothing Matters but the MUSIC Whatever, Man