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Denver/Boulder: Shows this week | 6.23 - 6.29
Artists mentioned:[Disco Mountain] Monday, June 23 Alien Sex Fiend @ Gothic Theatre Dilated Peoples @ Fox Theatre Tuesday, June 24 Fighting For The Universe @ Larimer Lounge Idiot Pilot @ Marquis Theater Mark Knopfler @ Red Rocks Ampitheatre Rose Hill Drive @ Fox Theatre Wolf Eyes @ Hi-Dive Wednesday, 06/25 Leftöver...(read full post)
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Video: Okkervil River - "Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe"
Artists mentioned:Okkervil River - "Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe" - NYC Rooftop - Pitchfork.tv Beautiful cinematography only increasing the irony of song title. Slowed down version lovely, sepia drenched Manhattan backdrop, lovelier....(read full post)
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A Planner's Guide to After the Jump! (Or, Let Me Tell You How to Spend Your Saturday)
Artists mentioned:So after weeks of planning in smoky back rooms, tomorrow is finally the day that the second annual After the Jump Fest offers its free wares to the music loving citizens of Brooklyn. With 36 bands spread out over four stages within a two block radius, it's confusing even for...(read full post)
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New Things in Cartons
Artists mentioned:Love is All - "I Ran (So Far Away)" Love is All's Flock of Seagulls cover--the surprising centerpiece of their tour's Love is All Play 5 Covers EP--starts like a nervy deconstruction, akin to the Cure skittering through Hendrix's "Foxy Lady." But I should have known that the excitable Swedes...(read full post)
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Retrohump: Boston
Artists mentioned:Apros pos. For certain, MerrySwankster.com is a decidedly music-oriented website, yet we are not without our sporting allegiances. In fact, this is perhaps the one forum where Mets and Phillies fans interact with one another without spilling beer and mustard on themselves. Perhaps most surprisingly, Jeff Klingman is the most...(read full post)
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Numerology: Aria 51
Artists mentioned:The top-secret military testing ground in the Nevada desert known as Area 51 holds a place in the collective imagination as a hotbed of extraterrestrial life. Will Smith ends up at the site—which the government only admitted existed in 2003—after crash-landing in Independence Day, and the scores of songs with...(read full post)
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Long Nights and Early Mornings- Bonnaroo 2008
Artists mentioned:Though another trip into the home of Jack Daniels and Andrew Jackson may have come to an end, certainly a few lessons had to be learned other then the fact that my fake Southern accent needs a little less Forrest Gump and a little more Nashville. Here are a few...(read full post)
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Bell's Jukebox
Artists mentioned:The New York City five-piece Bell, lead by singer Olga Bell, was the first act to ever grace the stage of D's and my little Neon Lights concert endeavor. I use "grace" purposefully. Olga's soaring vocals and her band's sharp musicianship even managed to render Skee-Lo's "I Wish" a tender...(read full post)
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Denver/Boulder: Shows this week | 6.16 - 6.22
Artists mentioned:Monday, June 16 Dave Barnes @ Bluebird Theater Indigo Girls @ Denver Botanic Gardens Sevendust @ Gothic Theatre Tuesday, June 17 Bad Flirt @ Hi-Dive Gary Allan @ Ogden Theater Jonny Lang @ Boulder Theater Mumbouli @ Fox Theatre NonPoint @ Gothic Theatre Ryan Flick @ Larimer Lounge Wednesday, June...(read full post)
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I'm No Huge Flock of Seagulls Fan, but...
Artists mentioned:...this is unspeakably awesome. I *heart* Love is All. Love is All - "I Ran (So Far Away)" (Live @ the Cake Shop, 6.12.2008) From Punkcast....(read full post)
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Ripping Vinyl, part 3
Artists mentioned:After many years of musical obsession completely removed from a record player, my pile of vinyl now grows incrementally, aided by the quality LP sellers of New York City. Baubles from the treasure chest will be posted here whenever it seems appropriate... Romeo Void was a post-punk/new-wave line-straddling four-piece from...(read full post)
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Titus Andronicus - Live @ the Knitting Factory
Artists mentioned:Pitchfork.tv has just posted a full concert from former Neon Lights and future After the Jump stars, New Jersey's lovably shaggy Titus Andronicus. If you were planning on just hitting the free sets and then bailing before the benefit show a week from Saturday, I begrudgingly acknowledge that you can...(read full post)
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Retrohump Night: Sparks Heaven
Artists mentioned:Of all the records in my collection, old and new, the one getting the most consistent play these days might be Sparks' lean six song masterpiece No. 1 in Heaven (1979). I've been fairly evangelical on this site about my love for the neo-disco flooding in from the Italians Do...(read full post)
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Just Neat, is All
Artists mentioned:Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood - "The Rip" (Portishead cover) Via GvB...(read full post)
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Denver/Boulder: Shows this week | 6.9 - 6.15
Artists mentioned:[Slim Cessna's Auto Club] Monday, June 9 El Ten Eleven @ Hi-Dive Sheryl Crow @ Red Rocks Ampitheatre Slim Cessna's Auto Club @ Larimer Lounge Tuesday, June 10 The Botticellis @ Hi-Dive Foma @ Larimer Lounge Hatebreed @ Ogden Theater Old 97's @ Gothic Theatre Wednesday, June 11 Burning Brides...(read full post)
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Numerology: Hits From Halfway
Artists mentioned:Half comes up a lot. We comprehend concepts like 50 percent or 50-50 odds deep down in our bones. Essential numbers like 50 find their way into scores of songs, and there is no shortage of #50 songs out there—“50 Miles of Elbow Room” and “50 Miles to Go,” “50...(read full post)
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Whoa! After the Jump Festival Now Only Two Weeks Away!!
Artists mentioned:Man, we've been plotting away in our secret blogger cave for so long that the sudden realization that After the Jump's mammoth summer event is only two weeks from today completely snuck up on me. There's so much awesomeness in store that with the constraints of our site, it's actually...(read full post)
