David Patterson Is Going To Suspend His Campaign

Really at this point, the idea of New York Governor David Patterson suspending his campaign should be anything but news.  I mean, for the last few weeks the New York Times has been beating on him like he owed them money, with the news that he helped to suppress a sexual assault beef with one [...]

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Tegan & Sara “Alligator”

If you’ve read this blog, it’s probably not news to you that I really enjoyed Tegan & Sara’s last album Sainthood (though I recently was with a lady friend who accused me of being girly for liking it). All of the songs were such tightly spun pop-masterpieces that any one of them easily could have [...]

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IN REVIEW: Surfer Blood “Astro Coast”

Before I get started, I wanted to acknowledge the fact that this review is certainly going to have to come with a “better late than never” heading.  But, well…  better late than never!   Now, on with the show. Surfer Blood first splashed (pun oh-so intended) onto the scene last year with power-pop meets indie-rock [...]

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Vampire Weekend “Giving Up the Gun”

Oh, the rambunctious Vampire Weekend kids, just always getting into shenanigans (I feel like I may have misused shenanigans there).  Here is the latest video (courtesy of Spinner) to come from their awesome album Contra, and you may notice that it features some unconventional personalities like the RZA (aka Bobby Digital) and Jake Gyllenhaal.  The [...]

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GEEKING OUT: Mark Millar’s “Kick-Ass”

Okay, so speaking of trade paperbacks that are coming out…  If you went to some place that happens to sell comic books today, you probably saw the hardcover for Mark Millar’s much-ballyhooed Kick-Ass prominently displayed on the shelves.  The book, which in full disclosure I have never read a single frame of, has become something [...]

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GEEKING OUT: Garth Ennis’ “Crossed”

Garth Ennis has made an entire career out of pushing the envelope when it comes to his story-choices.  Hell, Preacher alone was both awesome and risque enough all in itself to list Ennis as an all time great comic writer. Ennis own twisted and particularly take on the zombie-genre, Crossed, has been around for a [...]

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Lissie “In Sleep”

I realized when looking back over my year-end lists somewhat recently, that there was one particularly glaring oversight on my part.  That, of course, was that I left Lissie’s fabulous EP Why You Runnin’ off of my “best EPs of 2009″ list.  Her brand of spirited country-rock proved to make for one of my very [...]

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Phenomenal Handclap Band “Baby”

I’m a bit late on the repost of this video (via Stereogum) for Phenomenal Handclap Band’s latest video for the song “Baby”.  Now the group really started to garner some serious attention and quietly build up a pretty sizable fan-base last year, so I’m expecting to see some pretty big things out of them in [...]

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IN REVIEW: Class Actress “Journal of Ardency EP”

Elizabeth Harper, the Brooklyn sing-songwriter at the helm of Class Actress, once described the band’s music as being something of a hybrid between Madonna and Depeche Mode’s influences.  This eclectically bizarre pairing is actually a reasonably accurate description of what the group’s first EP, Journal of Ardency, sounds like. Originally a solo performer in her [...]

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The Antlers “Bear”

Is there a band that has been more wonderfully depressing than the Antlers?  Don’t get me wrong, I love me a track that’s uplifting and fun to dance to, but there’s something to be said for a band that can skillfully drag you right down into the doldrums.  ”Bear” is actually one of the more [...]

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