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Parts & Labor

Between Albums, Parts & Labor Quietly Makes Some Noise – Arts Desk – Washington City Paper

May 12, 2010 / Leave a Comment

It might appear that the ultra-abrasive Brooklyn band Parts & Labor has been unusually quiet since dropping its 2008 album, Receivers. Although 2009 was the first year the group went without producing a new album since 2005, the electronics-tinged art-punk act has actually been as productive as ever. “We spent about half of last year … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Freelance Work Tagged: Dan Friel, music, Parts & Labor, Receivers, The Washington City Paper

Music and the Media, Part 2: A Rolling Stone gathers no mass

April 20, 2010 / Leave a Comment

On Monday, Rolling Stone debuted it’s online subscription model, as well as a much-needed website facelift. Unfortunately, it may be too little, too late. In the years Rolling Stone wasted their web-space, with nothing to show but a handful of articles hosted on a domain, music blogs and sites have sped past the magazine (and many … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Black Eyed Peas, magazines, music, music magazines, NPR, Parts & Labor, Pink Floyd, Pop music, rock, Rolling Stone, The Beatles, The Police, The Wall Street Journal

Valentine's Day Mix

February 13, 2010 / Leave a Comment

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. What does that mean? Well, it means it’s time for a Valentine’s Day mix, of course! Below is a nice little mix of songs for VD 2010: 1. Electric Six – “Electric Demons in Love”: [youtubevid id=”cDGQTlJjCrg”] 2. Andre 3000 – “Happy Valentine’s Day”: [youtubevid id=”DYnzdj4EK1c”] 3. Nina … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Akron Family, Andre 3000, Burial, Electric Six, Friendly Fires, Hot Club de Paris, Jakobinarina, Matt Stone, music, Nina Simone, Oh No! Oh My!, Parts & Labor, The Blow, The Monks, The Promise Ring, Tigers Jaw, Trey Parker, Valentine's Day

The Best Overlooked Albums Of The Aughts

December 27, 2009 / Leave a Comment

The new year is almost here, and with it comes a maelstrom of “End of the Year Lists.” Here on Ex-Spectator, I’ll be rolling out a few “End of the Year”/”End of the Decade” lists. Today’s list: The Best Overlooked Albums of the Aughts. A while back I started an ongoing feature called “Overlooked in … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: (k)no(w)here, +/-, A Name Writ in Water, A Story In White, Aereogramme, albums, Alias, All These Long Drives, All Together, Antelope, Apollo Sunshine, Aqueduct, art-punk, Beauty Pill, bedroom pop, Belly, best of, best overlooked albums of the aughts, best overlooked albums of the decade, Black Eyes, blogs, blues, bubblegum pop, By The Throat, Cave In, Cell-Scape, Central Hug, Central Hug/Friendarmy/Fractaldunes, Chad VanGaalen, chamber-pop, Chino Moreno, country, D.C., dance punk, Danger Mouse, Danger Mouse & Jemini, Dartz! This Is My Ship, David Terry, Deftones, doo-wop, Double Dagger, dubstep, Duplomacy, Ear Pwr, Emblems, emo, Emperor X, Eyedea & Abilities, Fire Theft, folk, Food For Animals, Forest Fire, Friend Army/Fractal Dunes (And The Dreams That Resulted), funk, Ghetto Pop Life, Gomez, Gowns, Guns Babes Lemonade, Hardcore punk, Hella, hip-hop, HLLLYH, Hope of the States, Hrishhikesh Hirway, I Sold Gold, In Our Gun, indie folk, indie pop, indie rock, Interventions & Lullabies, Ire Works, Is This It, It Takes A Nation Of Millions, jam, jazz, Jemini, Karate, Let's Build A Fire, lo-fi, London Zoo, Low Level Owl Vol. 1, Low Level Owl Vol. 2, Lucero, Lungfish, Mapmaker, Maritime, Mark Kozelek, Mary Timony, matt pond PA, Melt-Banana, meme, metal, metalcore, Milosh, Mineral, minimalism, Movie Monster, Muscles, music, Night On Fire, noise rock, noise-punk, Oh No! Oh My!, Parts & Labor, Pattern Is Movement, Perfect Pitch Black, Personal Journals, Pinback, Pitchfork, Pitchfork effect, Plus/Minus, pop, pop-rock, post-disco, post-hardcore, post-punk, prog, Public Enemy, Putting The Days To Bed, Q And Not U, Ragged Rubble, rap, RCA, Red State, Reflector, Resurgam, Rhymesayers, Rob Crow, Sage Francis, slam poetry, slowcore, Soft Airplane, Sound Team, Southern rock, Sun Kil Moon, Sunny Day Real Estate, Super Animal Brothers III, Survival, Team Sleep, That Much Further West, The Appleseed Cast, the aughts, The Bug, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Dismemberment Plan, The Fire Theft, The Format, The Long Winters, The Lost Riots, The Mae Shi, The One AM Radio, The PoPo, The Rapture, The Strokes, The Unsustainable Lifestyle, Tiny Cities, twee, Unbeast the Leash, Unsolved, UUVVWWZ, VHS or Beta, Videohippos, Volcano I'm Still Excited!!, We The Vehicles, Wilderness, Zach Hill

The more and more I agree with Christopher R. Weingarten

November 28, 2009 / Leave a Comment

Eye Weekly has a pretty great interview with Christopher R. Weingarten, formerly of good ole’ Parts & Labor, now known most prominently for his Twitter account, 1000TimesYes. Anyway, Weingarten has some pretty stellar things to say about the omnipresence of emo and indie in the early part of the decade, the impact of crowdsourcing on … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Brokencyde, emo, Eye Weekly, music, Parts & Labor, scrunk

Overlooked in the Aughts: Parts & Labor – Mapmaker

October 17, 2009 / Leave a Comment

Overlooked in the Aughts is an ongoing feature focusing on some of the best albums from the 2000s that haven’t quite received the attention they deserved. Today’s post: Parts & Labor’s Mapmaker. Back in June, music writer Christopher R. Weingarten extolled the pains that have befallen music journalism at the 140 Characters Conference. Among many of his excellent … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: art-punk, Battles, Brooklyn, Christopher R. Weingarten, Deerhoof, Do It Yourself, Hardcore punk, Mapmaker, music, NPR, Our Band Could Be Your Life, Parts & Labor, Receivers, Rolling Stone, TV On The Radio

Singles vs. Albums

April 13, 2009 / Leave a Comment

  “Personally, all of my favorite bands/artists are my favorites because of their albums, not singles. They created their own world within those albums to an extent that you just can’t do with much detail on one song.” –Dan Friel, Parts & Labor You can read the rest of my interview with Dan and flip … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Bostonist, Dan Friel, music, Oxfam Cafe, Parts & Labor

They Said It…

December 30, 2008 / 3 Comments

Roundup of various end of the year music lists…

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: About.com, Alexandra Cahill, Allmusic.com, Alopecia, Amazon.com, Amy Lindsey, Ann Powers, April, Associated Press, Baltimore City Paper, Belly, best albums lists, best albums of 2008, Billboard, Blender, Boston Globe, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Chris Barton, Chris DeLine, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cokemachineglow, Cortney Harding, Culture Bully, Dear Science, Drowned In Sound, Edna Gundersen, emo, Entertainment Weekly, Eric Mahollitz, Erik Thompson, Escapers Two, Fact Magazine, Food For Animals, Friendly Fires, Greg Kot, Heather Phares, HLLLYH, I Guess I'm Floating, I Rock Cleveland, Ice Cream Spiritual, James Christopher Monger, Jessica Letkemann, Joan Anderman, John Bush, Jon Pareles, Jonathan Cohen, Josh Keller, Justin Harris, Katie Hasty, Kelly Hilst, KEXP, Kyle Johnson, L.A. Times, Largehearted Boy, Limewire Music Blog, Margaret Wappler, Matt Collar, Melissa Trejo, Michael D. Ayers, Mojo, Morgan Chosnyk, Morgan Kluck, MTV, music, Music Blogs and Sites, Nate Chinen, Neon Neon, New Haven Register, New York Observer, New York Times, NME, NPR Listeners Poll, NPR Second Stage, Parts & Labor, Paste, pictures for sad children, Pitchfork, Ponytail, Q Magazine, Receivers, Robert Thompson, Rolling Stone, Sarah Rodman, Spin, Stainless Style, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Stereogum (Gummy Awards), Sun Kil Moon, Susan Visakowitz, The AV Club, The Dodos, The Mae Shi, TIME, Tiny Mix Tapes, Troy Carpenter, TV On The Radio, Uncut, USA TODAY, Visiter, webcomic, Why?, WOXY

Best Concerts of 2008

December 23, 2008 / 1 Comment

The best live shows of 2008

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: After the Jump Festival, Baltimore Round Robin, Baltimre, best concerts of 2008, Boredoms, Boston, Brooklyn, Chairlift, Dan Deacon, Double Dagger, Dr. Dog, Drive By Truckers, Edie Sedgwick, emo, Extra Life, Feet Night, Future Islands, Iron & Wine, Liars, Mark Kozelek, Mass Art, MFA, Mission of Burma, music, New York, No Age, Northampton, Noveller, Nuclear Power Pants, Orpheum, Oxfam Cafe, Paradise Rock Club, Parts & Labor, Pattern Is Movement, Pearl Street, Philadelphia, phonograph cylinder, Ponytail, Red House Painters, Rickenbacker Park, Shudder To Think, Siren Music Festival, Smartgrowth, Somerville, Subtle, Sun Kil Moon, Talking Head, The Deathset, The Hold Steady, the Middle East Upstairs, Thomas Edison, TV On The Radio, Union Square, Videohippos, Vs., Why?, Wilbur Theater, Zach Hill

Top o' 2008

December 12, 2008 / 3 Comments

A countdown of the best albums of 2008, in all their colors.

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: (k)no(w)here, 03/07-09/07, 808s and Heartbreak, Alias, All Together, Alopecia, Alpinisms, AmpLive, Antidotes, Apollo Sunshine, April, Atmosphere, Attack & Release, Beach House, Beck, Belly, best albums of 2008, Bon Iver, Chad VanGaalen, Dan Friel, Dananananaykroyd, Dear Science, Death Vessel, Devotion, Doomtree, Double Dagger, Dr. Dog, Eagles of Death Metal, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Edie Sedgwick, El Ten Eleven, emo, Escapers Two, Exiting Arm, Extra Life, Fall Out Boy, Fate, Fleet Foxes, Foals, Folie á Deux, Food For Animals, For Emma Forever Ago, Forest Fire, Friendly Fires, Fuck Buttons, Fucked Up, Future Islands, Ghost Town, Guns Babes Lemonade, HEALTH, HEALTH/DISCO, Heart On, Heavy Heavy Low Low, Hercules And Love Affair, High Places, HLLLYH, Hot Chip, Hot Club de Paris, Ice Cream Spiritual, iii, In Rainbows, Ire Works, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Live at Dead Lake, London Zoo, Lykkie Li, Made In The Dark, Marnie Stern, Milosh, Mixtape About Nothing, Modern Guilt, Muscles, music, Neon Neon, No Age, Nothing Is Precious Enough For Us, Nouns, Parts & Labor, Pattern Is Movement, Ponytail, Primary Colours, Radiohead, Ragged Rubble, RainyDayz Remixes, Receivers, Resurgam, School of Seven Bells, Secular Works, Shall Noise Upon, Sissy Hits, Soft Airplane, Songs in A&E, Spiritualized, Stainless Style, Street Horrsing, Strictly Leakage, Subtle, Sun Kil Moon, Survival, Tha Carter III, The Black Keys, The Bug, The Chemistry of Common Life, The Devil You + Me, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Dodos, The Mae Shi, The Notwist, The Very Best, The Very Best Mixtape, These Promises Are Being Videotaped, Things Are Getting Sinister And Sinisterer, This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That an, Turtle Nipple and the Toxic Shock, TV On The Radio, Unbeast the Leash, Viddeohippos, Videohippos, Visiter, Wale, Wave Like Home, When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That Shit Gold, Why?, Wilderness, Youth Novels
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