Before I begin today, I want to request something from you. I know most of you people have Facebook accounts. Maybe we’re friends, maybe we’re not. That’s not what matters now. What…
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Blossom Toes – We Are Ever So Clean
Original copies of We Are Ever So Clean are pretty hard to come by. I’ve seen a couple in the past year (mono and stereo UK), but that is because I’m usually…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 196
Aren’t you ungrateful motherfuckers lucky. You whine and you whine about how I don’t devote enough time or energy to sharing more music, and then you get a music-heavy Top Ten and…
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The Top Ten Pop Songs You’ve Probably Never Heard
What the fuck is pop music, anyway? I mean, I know it’s short for popular music, and I know in terms of marketing it’s usually geared towards a younger audience, but how…
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Peter Michael Hamel – Hamel
This is it, folks. This is one of the Vertigo swirl records I’ve been looking for since I first laid eyes on it back in the early days of 2008. At the…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 195
Nicci sang a song in her friend’s one-man show tonight. I couldn’t make it in time to see her, but I did make it to Aroma Coffee & Tea for a delicious…
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Cressida – Asylum
Vertigo Swirl alert! If you’re anything like me — and God help you if you’re not — you have the Vertigo Swirl website bookmarked, and you are constantly scouring record bins for…
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Interview: Nate Hall (US Christmas)
One of my three favorite active bands, US Christmas, has a new album coming out at the end of this month. It’s called Run Thick In The Night, and I think it’s…
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Bill Fay – Bill Fay
Anyone who says that Fay’s first album was overproduced or too baroque can go to hell. This album is the work of a genius. From “Garden Song” — saxophone and all —…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 194
Oh hello, children. Papa Evan is sitting around (practicing his perfect posture) sipping tea and listening to Bela Bartok’s 44 Duos For Two Violins, because I’m so highly evolved I listen to…