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Very Close to, if not actually in, the CD player:

Shiina Ringo - Karuki Zamen Kuri No Hana

seen/heard  °  listen °  buy

Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo - Echos Hypnotiques

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Whatever Brains - Trim-Jeans and/or Gross Urge Plus Ten CD-R

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Gene Watson - A Taste of the Truth

seen/heard   °  stream album °  buy

Franco & le TPOK Jazz - Francophonic Volume 2

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Amerie - In Love & War

seen/heard   °  stream album °  buy

Nirvana - Live at Reading

seen/heard   °  stream album °  buy

Shakira - She Wolf

seen/heard   °  listen   ° preorder

Magneta Lane - Gambling with God

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Various Artists - Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

The xx - xx

seen/heard   °  listen °  preorder

Future of the Left - Travels With Myself And Another

seen/heard   °  listen°  buy

Rokia Traoré - Tchamantché

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Emmy the Great - First Love

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Shiina Ringo - Superficial Gossip

seen/heard  °  listen °  buy

Shiina Ringo - Karuki Zamen Kuri No Hana

seen/heard  °  listen °  buy








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MP3s that appear on this page are available for a limited amount of time; they are posted for illustrative or promotional purposes.  Everyone is encouraged to support the artists and buy their work.  If you are an artist or artist's representative and object to having the music posted, please contact me at the above e-mail address.

PR Reps/Labels/Bands:  At this time, I am not accepting any free product.  If I like an album, I'll buy it.  (Who would I be to recommend a CD I haven't bought myself?)  Links to album streams, MP3s, or myspace pages can be sent to the e-mail address above - though frankly I pay little attention to press releases and their ilk. Sorry.

 

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May 2009



When I Told You That I Loved You I Thought You Were on the Pill

05/29/2009 1:05 P GMT-05
Vulture Whale - Head Turner (mp3)(buy)Sometimes the best way to defy expectations is to lower them drastically.So when I tell you there's this rock band from Alabama called Vulture Whale (myspace) that has released not one, but two albums called

It Slices, It Dices

05/26/2009 8:52 P GMT-05
A few YouTubed highlights from Shiina Ringo's Expo 08 concert.
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Detachable Mole

05/26/2009 11:36 A GMT-05
Superficial Gossip.  Shiina Ringo's first almost all-new(*) solo album since 2003's Karuki Zamen Kuri no Hana.  6/24/09 (in Japan).(CD Japan - Amazon)Currently watching:  Ringo Expo 08.(*)  Twelve new, two re-worked/errata

Toast: A Gospel Mix

05/25/2009 7:04 P GMT-05
(pic via)More straight-up gospel than last week's, except where it isn't.  It keeps an eye on the afterlife, there's the whiff of a narrative... though I wouldn't pay too much attention to themes or stories as I liberally appropr
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The New Green Day Album is Five Days Long

05/21/2009 12:39 P GMT-05
This thing is like the Shoah of initially invariable, tuneful, pop-punk.I'm too exhausted to go back and find the parts I liked.
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But I Thought the Old Lady Dropped it into the Ocean at the End

05/19/2009 9:58 A GMT-05
Miranda Lambert's "Dead Flowers." Craig Ferguson's "Oops... I Did it Again."

Dig Infinity: A Gospel-ish Mix

05/17/2009 7:51 A GMT-05
(photo via)I've got no truck with organized religion - I'm not much into organization, in general - but it's impossible to not be in awe of the body of work dedicated to matters on high.  The actual subject matter isn't important
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Honky Tonk Ba Doggie Bag (Jamey Johnson, Prospectors Steakhouse & Saloon (Mt. Laurel, NJ), 5/08/09)

05/13/2009 11:55 P GMT-05
Jamey Johnson concert review; links; Craig Ferguson oooOOOoooo intro.
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Well. That Was a Bit of a Mindfuck.

05/13/2009 10:41 P GMT-05
I don't know if any season finale could ever measure up to "Through the Looking Glass;" this one was sloppy -- the methodical and uninteresting Jacob retcons, the wild Lostie-on-Dharma violence, the whole no one thin

The Internet Equals Some Guy Telling You Five Times Over to Watch an Unremarkable Prescheduled Event From a Television Show Which Aired Last Night

05/08/2009 4:10 P GMT-05
How "the music blogosphere" continues to claw its way farther from interestingness in too-easy steps.1.  A band is booked on a major network late-night talk show.  (This happens on about half of the six weeknight talk shows(*), so

I Always Think This One is That One, Part 574

05/05/2009 11:19 P GMT-05
Coheed and Cambria.  Medeski Martin and Wood.(Yes, I've been ignoring this page (as have you, good for you), but that's only temporary.  Don't worry, I wouldn't shut the whole thing down without a sploogy self-send