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June 2008
Russell T. Davies, You Are a Maddening Beast
06/28/2008 8:44 P GMT-05
Not enough kitchen sinks! WE NEED MORE KITCHEN SINKS!I know this overblown mess is careening toward another horrid conclusion where everything's made better by, like, wishing or Fate or a kiss or something similarly reta
Yellow is Not a Neutral Color (Devo/Tom Tom Club/Dan Deacon, McCarren Park Pool, 6/26/08)
06/27/2008 7:45 P GMT-05
Got there just in time to hear Dan Deacon (myspace) thank everyone for tolerating his set. How can anyone hate this guy? (Please don't answer that.)*Tina looks great. Chris looks like Bill Clinton. TTC's DJ looks like
Category: Nothing Matters but the MUSIC
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We Are All Hacks
06/25/2008 5:24 P GMT-05
"Sigur Rós have inspired more terrible music writing than any other band in the past decade; to get the ball rolling, I'll submit some of my own." - Rob Harvilla, Village Voice, 6-24-08"The Arcade Fire must be a pretty great
Vogue (Coney Island Mermaid Parade 2008)
06/23/2008 2:22 A GMT-05
Photos from the 26th Annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade:Page 1 (Favorites)Page 2 (Kids)Page 3Page 4Page 5 (NSFWish)2007 Mermaid Parade Pics2006 Mermaid Parade Pics2005 Mermaid Parade PicsOthers' pics from this year via Flickr and the Coney Island
I'm Pretty Sure This is Illegal Somewhere
06/21/2008 5:42 P GMT-05
Hey! This is a family show!2008 Coney Island Mermaid Parade pics to come. Jeez, people are so fast.
There Were Moments When
06/20/2008 11:15 P GMT-05
[The Shangri-Las, "Past, Present and Future" (Fan Video)]"I used to sing..."The Shangri-Las weren't an amazing singing group, technically. Today their voices would probably get tweaked up and rounded out in the studio, w
Category: Nothing Matters but the MUSIC
Ugly Americans (Firewater, Cordero/Skeleton Key, Southpaw/Bowery Ballroom, 5/24 & 5/27/08)
06/17/2008 12:42 P GMT-05
["Delhi Wall" by Tod A. "Clown Graffiti" (Franklin St. in Greenpoint, Brooklyn) by d.billy. (via)]Firewater (myspace) released a fine record last month, though all your favorite new media outlets were too busy suckling at Sc
Category: Nothing Matters but the MUSIC
Just Shuts Down
06/11/2008 3:25 P GMT-05
Ranking American Idol contestants might exit with Soundscan expectations, but I'd imagine few viewers look out for post-show artistic success. Idol as talent search is about the search. It's a program about judgment, it's not
Category: Nothing Matters but the MUSIC
Also, You Win a Truck!
06/10/2008 9:58 A GMT-05
What an awkward, phony-looking production this Nashville Star thing is. I guess it's been on for years - hello, Miranda Lambert (and...um... um...) - but either they retooled it for its network debut and it hasn't settled, yet, or it
Rack and Soul
06/09/2008 12:58 P GMT-05
I had wondered where Eli "Paperboy" Reed's old-school soul (myspace) might land him. Since that Union Hall show he's had New York dates at Irving Plaza opening for an emo act (btw In Defense of the Genre is probably the
Tang for the Memories
06/07/2008 7:04 P GMT-05
"There are no acceptable limits and there are no acceptable prejudices in the 21st century."Well put, Hill. Here's hoping John McCain has similarly wonderful stuff scattered throughout his concession speech.But this line
Category: Possible, The Art of the
I Can’t Believe I’m Rooting for a Team from Boston
06/05/2008 10:39 P GMT-05
And one with P.J. Brown, no less!I must really hate the Lakers.
Doctor Tongue's 3-D House of Jazz
06/05/2008 4:02 P GMT-05
Esperanza
Category: Nothing Matters but the MUSIC
Baby's So High that She's Skying
06/02/2008 12:01 P GMT-05
New muxtape. I rather like this one. It may have turned out to be more about Death than I'd intended but don't let that get you down. Sometimes that's how things work out. A lot of times, actually. Some Fripp
Category: Nothing Matters but the MUSIC