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Category Archives: 2010
A Music Monday Mixtape
I recently made this mix for some friends. I burned a few copies and sent them off, hoping that it doesn’t just end up collecting dust in some corner of their place, or thrown on the passenger seat of their … Continue reading
Posted in 2010, miscellaneous, music, personal, songs
Tagged arcade fire, beach fossils, calgary, deerhunter, hurricane bells, liars, male bonding, motorifik, music, neil young, public strain, Real Estate, rock, titus andronicus, Tokyo Police Club, women, wonder wheel, working for a nuclear free city
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Album Review: Stereolab – “Not Music”
Stereolab is one of those bands where it almost seems pointless to write a review. Their fans are fiercely dedicated and almost unanimously unflagging in their enthusiasm for “The Groop”. Certainly Stereolab is in a class of its own. There … Continue reading
Blog philandering
I wrote a post about a mixtape that I made for some friends that appears today on my friend, Adam’s, blog. His blog is located at Never Had to Fight.com. My post is here, tons of music. It will come … Continue reading
Posted in 2010, miscellaneous, music, writing
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Sonic Youth Exegesis 1: “Hey Joni”
I started doing this on twitter where periodically I would take a line from a Sonic Youth tune and expound upon it. The idea just came out of me being goofy and bored while listening to Daydream Nation one night. … Continue reading
Posted in 2010, miscellaneous, music, songs, thoughts, writing
Tagged classic, creative reworking, daydream nation, exegesis, expounding, hey joni, music, sonic youth
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Album review: Pepper Rabbit – “Beauregard”
Pepper Rabbit, with their most recent release, “Beauregard”, have produced a stripped down, folky version of ethereal dreampop with a bit of honky-tonk barstool blues added to the mix. The music has a familiar sound that is quite inviting, like … Continue reading
Posted in 2010, albums, groovemine, music, reviews
Tagged 2010, albums, arcade fire, beauregard, folk, grizzly bear, groovemine, music, pepper rabbit
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New track from Hippo Campus
This past summer I clued you in to Makan Negahban’s solo project Hippo Campus and the album “Glass”, which I reviewed here. I’m here to let you know that there is new music on the way. The new album, entitled … Continue reading
Album review: Motorifik – “Secret Things”
Motorifik seem to be wasting no time with their debut album, “Secret Things”. Normally one would expect it to take a band at least a few albums to develop a unique and well formed sound. This is not the case … Continue reading
Posted in 2010, albums, groovemine, music, reviews
Tagged 2010, album, groovemine, motorifik, music, review, secret things, working for a nuclear free city
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A few cover songs
I’m not going to say anything overbearing like that these are the best cover songs, or that these are my top 5 cover songs of all time. Instead I just want to share a few that I have enjoyed recently. … Continue reading
Posted in 2010, miscellaneous, music, songs
Tagged big black, cover songs, covers, dead kennedys, Dillinger escape plan, Flaming Lips, james husband, japandroids, Louis Armstrong, matthew good, of Montreal, soundgarden
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