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[mig50]

wow, i really like this crime in choir album.

i listened to 13 point plan earlier, but i wasn't blown away. granted, i was cleaning my kitchen while i was listening to it, so i didn't really devote my full attention to it. a couple songs defintiely caught my attention. i need to listen to this again when i'm not distracted/in another room.

[ScarS1k]

Huey Lewis & The News - Hip To Be Square

[raubhimself]

picked up the new Arcade Fire album today... it's uh... very bleak

<edit> it gets a little less bleak towards the middle, ok.

I'm on the fence about this album. I really miss the urgency of the first album, like the yelping background vocals of Neighborhood #2 or the "HEY!" right before the band fully rocks out in Une Annee Sans Lumiere. It's almost like the new one is too pretty or something.

yeah the first one is all about the hardships of youth, but in an optimistic light, whereas it seems like this one they were just kinda like "ah fuck it, life sucks"

[thecreeper]

new fu manchu. starts out pretty metal, otherwise its another rocking but predictable album from them. still pretty good though.

[Ninjaneer]

Unwound - New Plastic Ideas
Big Business - Here Come the Waterworks
Rob Crow - Living Well
The Icarus Line - Mono

[DoctorShumway]

Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Propaghandi - Less Talk, More Rock
Propaghandi - Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes

[capthfc]

The Icarus Line - Mono

thanks for reminding me about this. i haven't listened to it in quite some time but it's still just as good as i remember.

[jesse]

lupe fiasco - food & liquor
j dilla - the shining
kavinsky - 1986

[DoctorShumway]

I've changed my mind on the new Modest Mouse album. While it's not awesome, it's not bad. There's some good stuff on there. Maybe it'll grow on me more.

Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West (since I had to compare the new to the old)
Drive Like Jehu - s/t

[raubhimself]

there's definitely more old style stuff in the new MM album compared to the last. i think they are both pretty good, just not as good as the old.

np:

Bob Log III - Trike
Pinback - Blue Screen Life
Rjd2 - The Third Hand
Modest Mouse - Building Something Out of Nothing
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead...
Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall

[unluckycharm]

lupe fiasco - food & liquor
j dilla - the shining
kavinsky - 1986

who is this j dilla guy? a friend is working on videos or something for him...
is it all hop-hop? is he good?

[jesse]

j dilla (jay dee) was a pretty famous hip-hop artist/producer.
he died last year. i am just starting to get into his stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Dilla

'donuts' is pretty much a masterpiece if you are looking for an album.

[ladydemon]

kinski
be gentle with the warm turtle

[eraser]

I've been listening to The Extraordinaires all day.

I had heard about them over a year ago via an improv message board. Someone had gone on and on about their album Ribbons of War, both the music, how it worked as a concept album, and the packaging (it comes with a corresponding homemade, bound storybook).

I made a note to check them out, but I just never got around to it.

Last night, at the Trunk Space, I stopped by to say hi. I was super-tired so I wasn't going to stick around too long, even though I really liked the lineup that Fran had put together for one of her Fizzle-promoted shows.

As I was walking around, on my way out, I saw that there was some merch set up on a chair and the floor that surrounded it.

I saw that one of the t-shirts had "The Extraordinaires" emblazoned across it and it hit me that I knew that name from somewhere.

I couldn't quite place it until I saw that they had those bound storybook CDs with the nautical theme (Ribbons of War).

I kinda flipped out.

I turned to Steph and said, "Oh wow - The Extraordinaires are here tonight?!"

Then, the purple-clad, bearded tall dude who was standing next to me turned to me, stuck out his hand, and said "I'm in The Extraordinaires - glad to meet you."

Apparently, they had a show at The Phix that just didn't draw, so, last minute, they got thrown onto the show at the Trunk Space.

They finally went on in front of a small crowd that had been drained of folks by the late hour, but they still were awesome.

Anyway, that's the history of everything that's every happened.

The End.

j dilla (jay dee) was a pretty famous hip-hop artist/producer.
he died last year. i am just starting to get into his stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Dilla

'donuts' is pretty much a masterpiece if you are looking for an album.

I don't know what part of Michigan you're from, but Detroit was Dilla's stomping ground (even if he did the bulk of his later work in L.A.). There are a lot of cats that worked with Dilla that are still there. I think DJ Houseshoes still holds down some dj nights here and there.

[eraser]

Double postage.