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Month: March 2010

Lollapalooza releases lineup… in code

March 31, 2010 / Leave a Comment

Lollapalooza, the gigantic three-day alternative pop music extravaganza, announced its 2010 lineup. Except you’ve probably got to be Vanna White to be able to discern who will be there from this quirky/gimmicky mess: It’s a cute concept, but you’ve got to wonder why they decided to only use the “Os” from Lollapalooza and not any … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: concert, Grant Park, Green Day, Lady Gaga, Lollapalooza, music, music festival, Phoenix, Soundgarden, The Arcade Fire, The Strokes, Vanna White

Free the Music: Signals

March 30, 2010 / Leave a Comment

Free the Music is a guide to new albums, EPs and songs that are available for free online. Today’s drop is: Signals/Supple Youth Tour Mixtape. I was crushed when I found out The Mae Shi broke up last summer. Or should I say, split in twain. Whatever the case may be, a number of the … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Abe Vigoda, Bipolar Bear, free music, Free the Music, HLLLYH, Jacob Safari, Kid Static, L.A., Major Lazer, mixtape, music, Po Po, punk, Signals, Supple Youth Tour Mixtape, The Mae Shi

Australian road safety campaign mocks youth subculture

March 28, 2010 / Leave a Comment

It’s great when public service announcements try and reach out to youths by showing off their cred in humorous fashions. Yet, one particular road safety ad in Australia seems to take things a little too far [via The Sydney Morning Herald]: The government announced on Monday a new online advertising campaign targeting young people who … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Australia, emo, music, public service announcement, The Sydney Morning Herald, youth culture

The album lives… live!

March 24, 2010 / Leave a Comment

Friday night I stood for two-plus hours in awe as I watched The Appleseed Cast perform their entire 2001 double album Low Level Owl. The Lawrence, Kansas emo band played to a packed crowd at Chicago’s Bottom Lounge, and gracefully played the criminally overlooked double album, with a brief intermission breaking up the two volumes and … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: album, ATP, Billboard 200, Bottom Lounge, Chicago, Clarity, concerts, Contra, Don't Look Back, Doolittle, emo, Exile in Guyville, Jimmy Eat World, Liz Phair, Low Level Owl Vol. 1, Low Level Owl Vol. 2, music, The Appleseed Cast, The Pixies, Vampire Weekend

Internet-based radio station WOXY shutting down today

March 23, 2010 / Leave a Comment

I was shocked when I stumbled upon the news that Internet-based indie radio station WOXY will shut down today [via the Daily Swarm]: Due to current economic realities and the lack of ongoing funding for WOXY’s operations, we’ve been forced to suspend our live broadcasts as of March 23rd. What seems so strange is that … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Austin, DC, Evens, Florence and the Machine, French Miami, indie, Internet radio, Mother Mother, music, Pomegranates, Q-Tip, The Daily Swarm, The Seedy Seeds, WHFS, WOXY

Dear MGMT: 'Congratulations' for what exactly?

March 22, 2010 / Leave a Comment

MGMT’s new album, Congratulations, leaked online. So the band cleverly began to stream the new record on their site. In an even smarter move, the group punctuated the appearance of the album’s music with this simple statement: Hey everybody, the album leaked, and we wanted you to be able to hear it from us. We … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Columbia Records, Congratulations, Dewey Cox, Hipster Runoff, MGMT, music, Oracular Spectacular, Paul McCartney, Rolling Stone, Spoon, Stereogum, Vogue, Walk Hard

Free the Music: Everyone Everywhere

March 21, 2010 / Leave a Comment

Free the Music is a guide to new albums, EPs and songs that are available for free online. Today’s drop is: Everyone Everywhere – A Lot Of Weird People Standing Around. I first heard of Philadelphia’s Everyone Everywhere close to a year ago, when Fistfight At The Arthouse featured a write up of their EP, … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: A Lot of Weird People Standing Around, emo, Everyone Everywhere, Free the Music, If You Make It, music, punk

R.I.P. Big Star's Alex Chilton

March 17, 2010 / Leave a Comment

The New York Times‘ ArtsBeat blog has confirmed the death of Big Star singer and guitarist Alex Chilton: Alex Chilton, the mercurial if influential rock musician, whose work spanned an eclectic gamut from the soul songs of the Box Tops to the multiple incarnations of his pop band Big Star, has died, The Commercial Appeal … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Alex Chilton, Big Star, music, New York Times

Crowdsourcing vs. blogging in music journalism

March 16, 2010 / Leave a Comment

SXSW, the internationally renowned music trade show, officially kicks off the live music portion of the expanding festival tomorrow. It’s the one week of the year that Texas bests every other state in the union in the “holds more music geeks per square foot” contest. In the ever-evolving realm of music journalism, media outlets are … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: AOL, Austin, Juiceboxxx, Most Ghosts, music, music journalism, Seed.com, Spinner.com, SXSW, Texas, The Daily Swarm, Zookeeper

Chicago goes green… for St. Patrick's Day

March 14, 2010 / Leave a Comment

Every year around St. Patrick’s Day the Chicago River turns green… with a little help from some dye of course. Yesterday, Chicagoans packed the riverwalk, bridges and sidewalks adjacent to the river to seen it morph into the unnatural-looking green for the city’s St. Patrick’s Day celebration. The color of the river looked like something … [Read more…]

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