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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

Can't Spell "B" without an "E"

November 12, 2008 / Leave a Comment

For those that caught Bruce Campbell’s latest B-movie flick, My Name Is Bruce, it’s, well, a Bruce Campbell movie… though some of the jokes were a complete miss and would have benefited the movie had they not been written in the first place. In any case, one of the movie’s driving characters is a young … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: ATP, Bruce Campbell, Clarity, emo, goth, Jimmy Eat World, music, My Name Is Bruce, punk

Too Lazy To Right Write

September 24, 2008 / 1 Comment

Michael Moore is the newest guy to pull a Radiohead, but not with music (though if it were, I’m sure it’d be somewhere in the general stereotype for emo these days – whiny and overly-dramatic). Moore released his newest piece, Slacker Uprising, on the net for a free download yesterday, perfectly timed with the upcoming … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: 2004 election, Alex Ross, ATP, Bowling for Columbine, classical music, Dear Science, emo, film, Geoff Rickly, John Kerry, MacArthur "Genius" Awards, Michael Moore, music, My Bloody Valentine, New York Times, Radiohead, Richard Strauss, Slacker Uprising, slackers, The Rest Is Noise, Thomas Frank, Thursday, turntable, TV On The Radio, Walter Kitundu, What's The Matter With Kansas?

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