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Me, Myself, and iPod 8/11/10: Column
Pulling a Public Image Ltd. with the title this week, and here’s why: the week after Lollapalooza is death. Must do full-length recaps, find pictures, etc. Meanwhile, all of the other aspects of the...
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Me, Myself and iPod…
…is on vacation this week. Catch us next week, when we’ve finished plowing through the press releases that came just before and after Lollapalooza. Until then, here’s a tune for you: P – Brother...
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Me, Myself, and iPod 8/25/10: Chromeo doesn’t want to see you naked
Made the mistake of taking the week off after finishing the Lollapalooza recap. 200 press releases later (actually, there are still over 100 to go), here we are. The lesson appears to be ‘never go on...
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Steal This Song: School of Seven Bells, “I L U”
I’ve been waiting for months to share this song with you. And if I actually read all of my email the day that I receive it – which is frankly impossible if I plan on getting anything else done – this...
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Me, Myself, and iPod 9/22/10: Wake me up when September ends
Sorry, disappeared for a while there. I took a week off after Lollapalooza – my first week off in two years, I might add – and I still haven’t caught up on email. I know, wah wah wah, you have too...
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Steal This Song: Nitzer Ebb, “Promises”
This is one of those moments where we cannot help but think that everything is connected. Earlier this year we got our hands on Selected, a compilation of songs from onetime Depeche Mode sonic...
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Steal This Song: Kid Infinity, “Snobs and Hammers”
This column has made its stance abundantly clear on the growing desire of today’s youth to be famous for the sake of being famous (ahem, Lolene’s “Rich (Fake It Til You Make It)“). It’s a clear ripple...
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Steal This Song: Destroyer, “Chinatown”
For the last five years, there has never been any question that when it came to the songwriting powers that be behind the New Pornographers, I am a Carl Newman guy. It’s not that I disliked Dan...
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Steal This Song: Candi and the Strangers, “Nico Regrets”
It’s great to see the ‘___ and the ___’ trend come back to music names. The world used to be full of them – the band behind the late ’70s one-hit wonder “Driver’s Seat”? That would be Sniff ‘n the...
View ArticleSteal This Remix: OK Go, “White Knuckles”
It’s been kind of quiet here in ESD Land, and that’s intentional – everyone has stuff to do during the holidays, and we’re only happy to wind things down so we can get our shopping done. But here’s a...
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Steal This Song: U.S. Royalty, “Monte Carlo”
Holy west coast pop, Batman. Now this is a sound that we wouldn’t mind seeing catch on and infiltrate the mainstream…again. We’re on our first spin through Mirrors, the debut album U.S. Royalty, a band...
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Steal This Song: Little Tybee, “Nero”
There are few slopes that are as slippery as music that could fairly be described as precious. A wrong move in any direction, and that ‘c’ becomes a ‘tent’, if you know what we mean. It was therefore...
View ArticleSteal This Song: Atomic Tom, “Don’t You Want Me”
It’s been admittedly quiet on the ESD front, and we’re sorry about that. Other projects got in the way, shame on us. But hopefully this cover of an ’80s smash will make things right. Yep, it’s that...
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Steal This Song: Five O’Clock Heroes, “City of Lights”
We’d just like to clear up something, if you don’t mind. Despite the fact that this column is called “Steal This Song,” rest assured that everything we post comes with the band’s permission. The title...
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Steal This Song: Matt Lowell, “Swan Lake”
Best bass line since “Once in a Lifetime”? Big words, to be sure, but hot damn, listen to the title track from Matt Lowell’s Swan Lake EP. It’s four notes, the same four notes, carried across several...
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Steal This Song: The Republic Tigers, “Merrymake It with Me”
God love the Republic Tigers. Their insanely melodic, mid-tempo pop is delightfully out of time, but not in a ‘let’s cash in on this retro thing’ kind of way. Think of them as a moder-day equivalent of...
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Steal This Song: Delay Trees, “Cassette 2012”
All right, so here’s the pitch to anyone who was tuned in to modern rock when the scene first started coming together (that would be the late ’80s, in case you weren’t sure): “Cassette 2012,” the new...
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Steal This Song: The Wandas, “Forever and Ever”
Oh man, is this easy on the ears. Just when we’re tempted to concede that new bands just don’t know how to construct a song the way they had been built for, oh, 35 or 40 years, along come the Wandas,...
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Steal This Song: The Moor, “Warm Winter”
It’s nice to see that ’60s lounge cool has yet to go out of style. Heck, if anything, it’s making a big of a comeback in the indie community. Jon Fratelli put his “Chelsea Dagger” day job on hiatus in...
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Underground Rapper of the Week: Sean Anonymous
Underground Rapper of the Week is a new feature designed to raise awareness of rappers from all over the world who, if that world were a perfect place, would be more famous than they are. It will be...
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