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After this morning, we were an album cover closer to Spoon's Transference in all its anticipated glory. In posting it Brandon likened collecting the various promo bits to piecing together a puzzle, so it's somewhat fitting the album's first single has a title promising a riddle. We first heard this…

"The idea that something is uncool because it's old or foreign has left the collective consciousness." -- Cool old foreigner Brian Eno, from an essay about how if everything has its own sub-genre, nothing is uncool. (via Prospect, via The New York Times)

Bembeya Jazz National - Super Tentemba (Live)(mp3)(buy) Was going to worry about conjuring up some sort of place and time, here, but right now I just need to defy context.  Out there it is grey and cold and down, down.   Everything about this performance is victory.  Elements -- even the…

It sounds like it should be easy to do your own SwaG! disk jockey program. Just get the music and equipment together, mix vigorously, and broadcast the results until the inevitable FCC goon squad bursts through your door.But what will it be missing? That’s right: the Guano. Mr. Bat Guano…

The fuzz-rock outfit hailing from The Great Plains, Capgun Coup, have been busy supporting their sophomore effort Maudlin. They first caught my ear with "Bad Bands" and evoke feelings similar to those felt during blistering basement parties or drunken nights in default dive bars. The fine folks at Team Love…

After Touch & Go collapsed, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists found a new home at Matador Records. Ted and crew will release The Brutalist Bricks, in all formats, on March 9th, 2010. Today they released the first taste and some tour dates...MP3 : Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Even…

by Andrew Frisicano DOWNLOAD: The Middle East - Blood (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Middle East - The Darkest Side (MP3) Australian band The Middle East first put out their debut release, The Recordings of The Middle East, in early 2008. That...

Emperor X - "Right to the Rails". I didn't see the point of an older brother. He never gave a shit about me. He was in his room, or lying on the carpet in front of the TV with a journal. He bought an expensive camera and took photos of…

Ted Leo new album comes out March 2010 on Matador Records, and I can’t wait.